Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Firefox onreadystatechange Use After Free (CVE-2013-1690)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-2867
Date Published: 18 Aug 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 27 October, 2013
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2013-1690
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A code execution vulnerability exists in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird. The vulnerability is caused by a Use-After-Free error when processing script code making use of the onreadystatechange event handler. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing the target user to open a malicious web page.

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 R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Mozilla Firefox onreadystatechange Use After Free 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:  Mozilla Firefox onreadystatechange Use After Free

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