Check Point Advisories

Firefox Protocol Handler Code Execution - Ver2 (CVE-2007-3845)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-2361
Date Published: 28 Dec 2014
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 28 December, 2014
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2007-3845
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A code execution vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla SeaMonkey. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability via certain vectors associated with launching a file handling program based on the file extension at the end of the URI a variant of CVE-2007-4041. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected 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

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Firefox Protocol Handler Code Execution - Ver2 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:  Firefox Protocol Handler Code Execution - Ver2

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