Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2013-2477 |
Date Published: | 14 Jul 2013 |
Severity: | High |
Last Updated: | Sunday 21 December, 2014 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2013-2470 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Oracle Java. The vulnerability is due to access of uninitialized memory during a call to sun.awt.image.ImagingLib.lookupByteBI method. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to visit a specially crafted web page. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can allow execution of arbitrary code on a target system. |
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.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Oracle Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Oracle Java sun.awt.image.ImagingLib.lookupByteBI memory corruption