@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
Description: RealNetworks has recently released a patch for RealPlayer, its cross-platform media player, addressing a buffer overflow vulnerability. The vidplin.dll library, which RealPlayer uses when parsing AVI files, uses a user-controlled length to allocate a buffer before copying user-provided data into the buffer. By enticing a target to view a malicious file, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple has released a patch for a vulnerability affecting its cross-platform QuickTime media player. QuickTime can render sprites, which are fixed pieces of pictures or videos that can then be animated calls to a QuickTime API. A particular transformation in this API causes QuickTime to scale the sprite and write to memory outside of a buffer. By enticing a target to view a malicious file, an attacker can exploit the resulting buffer overflow condition in order to execute arbitrary code.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: HP has released a patch addressing a vulnerability in OpenView Performance Insight, a tool for measuring the performance of computer networks. The vulnerability is due to a hidden, statically-defined account present in the com.trinagy.security.XMLUserManager class. By sending a malicious request, an unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM-level permissions. No user interaction is required on the part of the target for successful exploitation.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
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 10893 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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