@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: The Microsoft Windows Kernel is susceptible to an 0-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild by the W32.Duqu worm. By enticing the target to view a malicious Word document, the worm exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in the Windows kernel to exploit arbitrary code on the target's machine. Technical information about the vulnerability is not available publicly. Microsoft has not yet publicly acknowledged the vulnerability, but, according to Secunia, Microsoft is working on a patch.
Status: vendor not confirmed, updates not available
Description: Apple has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting its QuickTime media player. The vulnerabilities include buffer overflows in the code responsible for handling H.264-encoded movie files, FlashPix files, FLIC files, and FLC movie files; an unspecified implementation issue; various memory corruption issues in the code responsible for movie files and the TKHD atoms in QuickTime movie files; integer overflows in the code responsible for handling PICT files and JPEG2000-encoded movie files; and a signedness issue in the code responsible for handling font tables in embedded QuickTime files. By enticing a target to open a malicious 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 addressing multiple security vulnerabilities in its Reader and Acrobat products. The vulnerabilities include a flaw in the version of libtiff used by Adobe Reader X, which copies attacker-controlled U3D data onto a fixed length stack; heap and stack buffer overflows in the code responsible for handling PICT, IFF, and BMP images; and an integer overflow vulnerability in the code responsible for handling PCX images. By enticing a target to open a malicious file, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Novell has released a patch addressing a vulnerability in its iPrint client, part of its iPrint system, which is designed to allow shared access to printers using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). The vulnerability is due to a problem in the GetDriverSettings method in nipplib.dll library, which can be exploited via an ActiveX web site. The vulnerable method copies an attacker-controlled hostname and port into a fixed-length buffer when it writes to a log. By enticing a target to view such a malicious page, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability 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 12615 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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