@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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WHITE PAPER: PROTECTING FEDERAL SYSTEMS FROM ADVANCED PERSISTENT THREATS In today's multilayered attacks against government systems, one of the key entry points is through web applications. This SANS Institute paper discusses how to set policies to develop secure applications and protect against known and unknown threats throughout the application's lifetime.
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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: Adobe has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities affecting its flash player. The problems include unspecified memory corruption and integer handling errors. By enticing a target to view a malicious page, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google has released patches addressing multiple security vulnerabilities in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerabilities include multiple unspecified use-after-free vulnerabilities in its handling of SVG and HTML, a bad cast, and a buffer-overflow. The details of these vulnerabilities are not known, but by enticing a target to view a malicious page, it is possible that 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 13467 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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