Check Point Advisories

Internet Explorer HTML Use After Free Memory Corruption (MS13-047; CVE-2013-3139)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-1869
Date Published: 5 Jun 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Tuesday 31 December, 2024
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-3139
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75, R71, R70
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer attempts to access an object that has been deleted. The Internet Explorer process may corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

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.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Internet Explorer HTML Use After Free Memory Corruption (MS13-047) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Internet Explorer HTML Use After Free Memory Corruption (MS13-047)

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