Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Firefox Style Engine Position Change Memory Corruption - Ver2 (CVE-2006-0294)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-0804
Date Published: 3 Feb 2014
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Saturday 22 February, 2025
Source: CVE-2006-0294
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A memory corruption vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote attacker could trigger this vulnerability by changing an element's style from position:relative to position:static which causes Gecko to operate on freed memory. 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 product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

  1. On the IPS tab, click Protections, find the protection using the search tool and edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

On SmartView Tracker:

  1. Click on IPS Blade > All.
  2. Filter the logs by the Protection name

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