Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Firefox New Function Garbage Collection Code Execution - Ver2 (CVE-2006-3803)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-0839
Date Published: 3 Feb 2014
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Wednesday 22 January, 2025
Source: CVE-2006-3803
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A code execution vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote attacker could trigger this vulnerability by causing the garbage collector to delete a temporary variable while it is still being used during the creation of a new Function object. 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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