Check Point Advisories

Google Chrome and Apple Safari Floating Styles Use-After-Free Code Execution - Ver2 (CVE-2011-2790)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-1040
Date Published: 3 Mar 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 03 March, 2014
Source: CVE-2011-2790
Industry Reference:CVE-2011-2790
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R77, R76, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Apple Safari and Google Chrome. The vulnerability is due to an error while handling floating style information. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a specially crafted web page. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to execute code in the affected system, in the security context of the logged on 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,
Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R77 / R76 / R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Google Chrome and Apple Safari Floating Styles Use-After-Free Code Execution - Ver2 protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:

Attack Name:  Web Client Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  Google Chrome and Apple Safari Floating Styles Use-After-Free Code Execution - Ver2

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