@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: RealNetworks has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting their RealPlayer multimedia player. The vulnerabilities include a buffer overflow handling AAC audio files, a memory corruption issue handling the ARTC codec, a buffer overflow when handling a RealMedia audio file, an integer overflow vulnerability in the handling of the RV10 codec, a use-after-free related to malformed codec names, a memory corruption issue in the handling of the RV30 codec, and a buffer overflow vulnerability in the handling of .ivr 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
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 12729 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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