@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: Microsoft Word is reportedly susceptible to a memory corruption vulnerability. The problem is due to Word using an attacker-controlled address as a pointer. According to reports, by enticing a target to open a malicious file, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine. A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Status: vendor not confirmed, updates not available
Description: The Mozilla Foundation has released patches for security vulnerabilities affecting its Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client. The vulnerabilities in Firefox include memory corruption vulnerabilities in code for parsing XUL documents, "multipart/x-mixed-replace" MIME type images, and Javascript. By enticing a target to view a malicious web site, an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities in order 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 11453 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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