Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2013-1644 |
Date Published: | 2 Apr 2013 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Monday 06 January, 2014 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2013-0074 CVE-2013-3896 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A pointer dereference vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Silverlight. This vulnerability is due to insufficient verification of a pointer when rendering an HTML object. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by enticing target users to visit a malicious web page, potentially causing arbitrary code to be injected and executed in the context of the currently logged on user. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: Microsoft Silverlight Pointer Dereference Memory Corruption (MS13-022)