@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: As part of its Microsoft Patch Tuesday program, Microsoft has released patches for vulnerabilities in multiple products. The vulnerabilities include a problem in the way a Windows component loads DLL files, five memory corruption vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel, a problem in the way an Office component loads DLL files, and a memory corruption vulnerability in the code Microsoft Office uses to handle Word files. By enticing a target to open a malicious file or load a malicious DLL file, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Adobe has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Flash Player software. The vulnerabilities include many memory corruption and buffer overflow vulnerabilities. By enticing a target to view a malicious site, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: ScadaTEC SCADAPhone and MobusTagServer are reportedly susceptible to a buffer overflow vulnerability. A public exploit has been made available for this vulnerability as a Metasploit module, but ScadaTEC has not yet confirmed the existence of the vulnerability. The SCADAPhone software is used in industrial settings to send alarms to operators via phone. ModbusTagServer is an OPC (Open Process Control) server. It is not immediately clear whether these vulnerabilities affect the client or server side of these products. By enticing a target to open a malicious zip file with the vulnerable software, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor not confirmed, updates not 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 12306 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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