@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 Critical Vulnerabilities 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 has released a patch addressing a security vulnerability in its Bluetooth driver code. By sending malicious Bluetooth packets, an attacker can cause the driver code to access uninitialized or deleted objects and then execute arbitrary code on a target's machine with SYSTEM-level privileges. This vulnerability requires the Bluetooth driver to be enabled.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Trend Micro has released a patch for Control Manager, its web-based security management console, addressing two vulnerabilities. The first vulnerabilities involves the CASProcessor.exe process, which listens on port 20801 by default. By sending a malicious request, an attacker can exploit an integer overflow vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level privileges. The second involves the Cas_LogDirectInsert.aspx http handler, which listens for HTTPS messages on port 443. By sending a POST request with malicious information, an attacker can inject commands used to query the backend database and create a new account. Using this account and the management console, they can then execute arbitrary commands on the target 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 11686 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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