Risk
High
Date Discovered
June 14, 2011
Description
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Firewall client is prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability.
An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. Failed attacks may cause a denial-of-service condition.
Technologies Affected
- Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Client
Recommendations
Run all software as a nonprivileged user with minimal access rights.
To reduce the impact of latent vulnerabilities, always run nonadministrative software as an unprivileged user with minimal access rights.Deploy network intrusion detection systems to monitor network traffic for malicious activity.
Deploy NIDS to monitor network traffic for signs of anomalous or suspicious activity. This includes but is not limited to
requests that include NOP sleds and unexplained incoming and outgoing traffic. This may indicate exploit attempts or
activity that results from successful exploitsDo not follow links provided by unknown or untrusted sources.
Web users should be cautious about following links to sites that are provided by unfamiliar or suspicious sources.
Filtering HTML from emails may help remove a possible vector for transmitting malicious links to users.Implement multiple redundant layers of security.
Memory-protection schemes (such as nonexecutable stack and heap configurations and randomly mapped memory
segments) will complicate exploits of memory-corruption vulnerabilities.
Vendor updates are available. Please see the references for details.
Credits
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