@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: Adobe has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Flash player, including one that is reportedly being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability being exploited in the wild could be used to take actions on behalf of the target on any web site. The exploit circulating in the wild accomplishes this by enticing the target to click on a malicious link within an email. By enticing a target to view a malicious page, an attacker can exploit the other vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on a target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Novell has released a patch for Groupwise, its multiplatform collaboration software. One component of the software, the Groupwise Internet Agent, contains three memory corruption vulnerabilities. The Internet Agent is responsible for handling SMTP connection to email systems outside Groupwise. By sending an email containing a malicious iCal calendar file, an attacker can exploit one of these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on a target's machine with SYSTEM-level privileges.
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 12375 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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