Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Firefox Proxy Prototype Remote Code Execution (CVE-2014-8636)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2015-0398
Date Published: 26 Mar 2015
Severity: High
Last Updated: Sunday 29 March, 2015
Source:
Industry Reference:CVE-2014-8636
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable? Mozilla Firefox prior to 35.0
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability has been detected in Mozilla Firefox. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability by enticing users to open a specially crafted web-page. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the user's security context.

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 Mozilla Firefox Proxy Prototype Remote Code Execution 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:  Mozilla Firefox Proxy Prototype Remote Code Execution

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