@RISK is the SANS community's consensus bulletin summarizing the most important vulnerabilities and exploits identified during the past week and providing guidance on appropriate actions to protect your systems (PART I). It also includes a comprehensive list of all new vulnerabilities discovered in the past week (PART II).
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Part I for this issue has been compiled by Josh Bronson at TippingPoint, a division of HP, as a by-product of that company's continuous effort to ensure that its intrusion prevention products effectively block exploits using known vulnerabilities. TippingPoint's analysis is complemented by input from a council of security managers from twelve large organizations who confidentially share with SANS the specific actions they have taken to protect their systems. A detailed description of the process may be found at http://www.sans.org/newsletters/risk/#process
Description: Microsoft Internet explorer is susceptible to a use-after-free vulnerability. The mshtml.dll library's code responsible for handling DOM objects is vulnerable. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability for code execution by enticing a user to view a malicious page with Internet Explorer.
Status: vendor not confirmed, updates not available
Description: Multiple versions of Microsoft Windows are susceptible to a buffer-overflow vulnerability. Because of a vulnerability in the way Windows handles thumbnails within the shimgvw.dll library, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target to view a corrupted thumbnail within a malicious document. This would require a target to browse, for example, to an SMB (Server Message Block) or WebDAV folder. The target would then have to enable a view that causes Windows to render thumbnails.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates not available
Comprehensive List of Newly Discovered Vulnerabilities from Qualys (www.qualys.com) This list is compiled by Qualys ( www.qualys.com ) as part of that company's ongoing effort to ensure its vulnerability management web service tests for all known vulnerabilities that can be scanned. As of this week Qualys scans for 10765 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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