@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 for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Flash Player. Adobe reports that malware in the wild is exploiting one of the vulnerabilities, a memory corruption vulnerability. By enticing a target to view a malicious file, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google has released a patch for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Chrome browser. The issues involve bad type casts in WebKit and integer overflows in the code responsible for handling SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). By enticing a target to view a malicious page, an attacker can exploit these 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 11290 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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