@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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TRAINING UPDATE
- -- North American SCADA Security 2011, Lake Buena Vista, FL, February 23-March 2 With special DHS/INL and NERC workshops plus hands-on immersion training.
http://www.sans.org/north-american-scada-2011/
- -- SANS Phoenix 2011, Phoenix, AZ, February 25-March 2, 2011 6 courses. Bonus evening presentations and special events include Indicators of Compromise: ABCs of IOCs and Network Vulnerability Exploitation, Step By Step From Discovery through to Metasploit Module
http://www.sans.org/phoenix-2011/
- -- SANS AppSec 2011: Summit & Training, San Francisco, CA, March 7-14, 2011 7 courses. Bonus evening presentations and special events includes The Road to Sustainable Security
http://www.sans.org/appsec-2011/
- -- SANS 2011, Orlando, FL, March 27-April 4, 2011 39 courses. Bonus evening presentations and special events include Hiding in Plain Sight: Forensic Techniques to Counter the Advanced Persistent Threat; and Law and the Public's Perception of Data Security
http://www.sans.org/sans-2011/
- -- "Combating Malware in the Enterprise" course at SANS (SEC569). How do you fight off malware when you have thousands of hosts? Learn the answers in Orlando in March:
http://www.sans.org/security-training/combating-malware-enterprise-1482-mid
- -- 2011 Asia Pacific SCADA and Process Control Summit, Sydney, Australia, March 31-April 7, 2011
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Part I Critical Vulnerabilities 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
Description: Novell has released a patch for multiple vulnerabilities in Groupwise, an on-premise collaboration product that provides email service. Groupwise handles vCalendar data, an open standard for communicating scheduling information. The patched vulnerabilities are due to an error in the code responsible for parsing the TZID and REQUEST-STATUS headers in an email message. Because these headers are copied into fixed-length buffers, an attacker can exploit the resulting buffer overflow vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges on the target's machine. No interaction is required on the part of the target for exploitation.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Opera has released a patch for one vulnerability in its web browser, but another vulnerability remains unpatched. The patched vulnerability lies in Opera's handling of the 'Select' HTML element and is due to improper integer truncation. The unpatched vulnerability similarly involves an integer overflow vulnerability when parsing 'Option' HTML elements. By enticing a user to view a malicious page, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine. The first vulnerability was patched in Opera Version 11.01.
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 10878 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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