Check Point Advisories

Apple Safari Parent.Close User After Free - Ver2 (CVE-2010-1939)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2014-0819
Date Published: 3 Feb 2014
Severity: Critical
Last Updated: Thursday 28 March, 2024
Source: CVE-2010-1939
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75

Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description A use-after-free vulnerability has been reported in Apple Safari. The vulnerability is due to an error in Apple Safari while handling the termination and subsequent referencing between child and parent windows. A remote attacker could trigger this vulnerability by enticing a vulnerable target to access a specially crafted HTML document. 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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