@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 multiple products. Adobe has reported that the unspecified memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash is being actively exploited in the wild. That issue was initially reported as an 0-day vulnerability. The Shockwave Player vulnerabilities involve various errors in the handling of malformed Adobe director files. The Reader vulnerabilities involve the vulnerable code blindly trusting malicious attacker-provided lengths in malicious files. 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. Code will execute with the permissions of the user running the browser or Reader application.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: As part of its patch Tuesday program, Microsoft has released patches addressing vulnerabilities in multiple products. Included in this month's patches are fixes for code-execution vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer. Four vulnerabilities involve memory corruption issues while handling malicious DOM manipulation of a web page; one involves a redirect to a CDL protocol, which causes a crash in Internet Explorer; and another involves a use-after-free vulnerability caused by unsafe handling of unusual values for the layout-grid-char styel property. By enticing a target to view a malicious page, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running the browser. Microsoft also released patches for its internal SMB client and server, Microsoft Silverlight, and Office Excel; these issues could also be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a 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 11428 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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