@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: Mozilla has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Firefox web browser. The issues include some memory corruption problems in the Mozilla browser engine, an integer overflow due to incorrect handling of large regular expressions in the JavaScript engine, a possible buffer overrun issue in the ANGLE library used by WebGL, an unspecified crash in the YARR regular expression library used by JavaScript, and an unspecified crash due to a use-after-free condition when loading a particular .ogg file. Other than the patches themselves, there is little publicly available technical information for these vulnerabilities. Mozilla believes that at least some of these vulnerabilities could be used by an attacker to run arbitrary code on a target's machine. In order to do this, an attacker would have to entice the target to view a malicious web site.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Chrome web browser. There are seven issues, all rated high or critical, including use-after-free vulnerabilities and memory corruptions. Technical details are not available for the vulnerabilities, but it is likely that by enticing a target to view a malicious page, an attacker can exploit at least some of them 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 12390 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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