Check Point Advisories

Internet Explorer createTextRange Remote Code Execution (MS06-013) - Ver2 (CVE-2006-1359)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2006-210
Date Published:	3 Mar 2014
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Monday 03 March, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2006-1359
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) is a popular web browser application. The browser is capable of processing HTML, scripting languages, and interpreting various other popular Internet specifications. A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to an error in Internet Explorer while processing scripts that call certain methods on invalid HTML elements. A remote attacker may exploit this issue to inject and execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will crash the browser, and may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

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

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Internet Explorer createTextRange Remote Code Execution (MS06-013) - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
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 createTextRange Remote Code Execution (MS06-013) - Ver2