Preemptive Protection against Microsoft Internet Explorer Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (MS10-002)
| Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2010-015 | |
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| Source: | Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 | |
| Industry Reference(s): | CVE-2010-0245 CVE-2010-0246 |
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| Who is Vulnerable? Internet Explorer 8 for: Windows XP SP2 Windows XP SP3 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition SP2 Windows Vista Windows Vista SP1 Windows Vista SP2 Windows Vista x64 Edition Windows Vista x64 Edition SP1 Windows Vista x64 Edition SP2 Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems SP2 Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems SP2 Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Windows Server 2008 R2 (Itanium) | ||
| Vulnerability Description Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. A remote attacker could exploit these issues by convincing a user to open a maliciously crafted HTML file with Internet Explorer, which will cause the browser to crash and may allow execution of arbitrary commands. |
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Update/Patch Available Apply patches: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-002 |
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Vulnerability Details The vulnerabilities are due to the way Internet Explorer accesses an object that has not been correctly initialized or has been deleted. To trigger this issue, an attacker may create a malicious web page that will cause Internet Explorer to exit unexpectedly. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities will crash the browser, and may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. |
Protection Overview
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability. No update is required to address this vulnerability.
Users are protected against this vulnerability if the protection against Internet Explorer 8 Overlap Components found in the Protection section of CPAI-2009-257 has been applied.
To configure the defense, select your product from the list below and follow the related protection steps.