@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
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Description: Google has released a patch for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Chrome web browser. The issues include a use-after-free vulnerability and a heap buffer overflow in the GPU process. Few technical details regarding the vulnerabilities are available, but it is likely that, by enticing a target to view a malicious site, an attacker can exploit them in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities affecting iOS, its mobile operating system. The issues include a memory corruption vulnerability in the code used by QuickLook to handle Microsoft Office files, and integer overflow and use-after-free vulnerabilities in WebKit. By enticing a target to view a malicious site, an attacker can exploit the latter two vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Part II -- 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 11166 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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