Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2011-435 |
Date Published: | 27 Sep 2011 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Tuesday 29 August, 2017 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2011-2371 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | Mozilla Foundation Firefox prior to 3.6.18 Mozilla Foundation SeaMonkey 2.1 and prior Mozilla Foundation Thunderbird prior to 3.1.11 |
Vulnerability Description | A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla applications. The vulnerability is due to an integer overflow occurring when the Array.reduceRight() method is called with an extremely large length. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a specially crafted HTML file, potentially leading to arbitrary code executed on the system. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to send malformed HTML files.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Mozilla Multiple Products Array.reduceRight Integer Overflow