@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: Apple has released patches for security vulnerabilities affecting its OS X operating system, Safari web browser, and iOS mobile operating system. The vulnerabilities include updates to third-party software like PHP as well as Apple software like QuickTime and Safari. The issues with QuickTime are mostly buffer overflows and would require an attacker to entice a target to view malicious files. The iOS vulnerabilities include some that could be exploited with multiple vectors, including some in image libraries, as well as some in client-side components like WebKit. Updates to Safari and WebKit could result in code execution if a target is enticed to visit a malicious site.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Oracle has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Java virtual machine. Many of these vulnerabilities can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by enticing a target to view a malicious site. Normally applets that are automatically loaded and run by browsers are sandboxed, but a number of these vulnerabilities allow applets to break out of that sandbox and execute code with the full privileges of the underlying browser. Java vulnerabilities are particularly attractive targets for malware writers because Java is widely deployed and multiplatform.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Adobe has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its Reader and Acrobat products. By enticing a target to view a malicious document, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on a target's machine. The first two vulnerabilities are buffer overflows in the image parsing library. The last is a buffer overflow in the code responsible for handling compound glyphs when rendering a font.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Novell has released patches for security vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. The company has patched three unspecified ActiveX vulnerabilities in Novell ZENworks, its configuration management software. It has also released patches for Groupwise, its collaborative software that integrates email, calendaring, instant messaging, and so on. The updates to Groupwise address two vulnerabilities reported to the Zero Day Initiative. The first is triggered when a target opens an email containing a malicious DOCX attachment. By enticing a target to open such a message, an attacker can execute arbitrary code on the target's machine with the privileges of the mail client. The second, which involves a problem in the component of gwwww1.dll responsible for parsing calendar data, is triggered when an unauthenticated attacker sends a malicious email. Code in exploits for the second vulnerability will run 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 12501 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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