@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: Adobe has released patches addressing multiple security vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat. One of the vulnerabilities, involving a memory corruption in the cooltype.dll library used by Adobe Reader, is being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe's CoolType library is used to render legible and attractive text on LCD and TFT screens. Nothing special is required within a PDF to enable it. By enticing a target to open a malicious file, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Oracle has released patches addressing multiple security vulnerabilities in its products. Among the issues are several vulnerabilities that could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Two separate, unspecified issues in Oracle Database Server could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on a target's machine. Note that Oracle has listed an old TLS renegotiation vulnerability as a code-execution issue. This issue allows attackers with full control of a connection to prepend arbitrary data to the first message sent by a TLS client after a handshake. It is possible that an attacker with control of a connection could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on a machine running Oracle Fusion Middleware, but details are unavailable.
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 11190 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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