Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2011-457 |
Date Published: | 11 Oct 2011 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Wednesday 17 February, 2016 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2011-1995 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A vulnerability has been reported in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to an error in the way an ActiveX component initializes certain data structures. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a malicious web-page. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected system. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to open a specially crafted web-page.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Internet Explorer uninitialized pointer dereference (MS11-081)