@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: Oracle has released a patch addressing multiple security vulnerabilities in its Java virtual machine. The vulnerabilities include multiple buffer overflows in the code responsible for parsing ICC Color profiles and a command injection vulnerability in Java webstart. The buffer overflows result from errors allocating buffer sizes that are based on user-provided lengths, which can be caused to overflow in some cases, resulting in insufficient buffer space being allocated. The command injection vulnerability results from unsanitized parameters being passed to a java process on the command line, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code. By enticing a target to view a malicious site, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities on the target's machine with the permissions of the currently logged-in user.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Novell has released a patch for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting iPrint, its enterprise printing environment. The vulnerable code blindly copies user-provided data into a fixed-length buffer on the heap. Because the code can be instantiated as an ActiveX control, an attacker can entice a target into viewing a malicious site and exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine. Code will execute in the security context of the browser, which is typically identical to the currently logged-in user.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google has released a patch addressing multiple security vulnerabilities in its Chrome web browser. Five of these issues are rated HIGH by Google, and three involve possible memory corruption issues of the type that can often lead to remote code execution. Public explanations of these vulnerabilities are not available.
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 11378 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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