If you are not yet persuaded that storage products are a primary target of the attackers, just look back over the last two years at all the vulnerabilities in CA and Veritas back-up products. This week it is another Veritas one and one from EMC. One of the great truths of vulnerability counting is that high numbers of discovered vulnerabilities point to primary attack targets. So it would be smart to have a good answer when your CEO asks: How good is your program for keeping our back-up products patched?
Alan
@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 for this issue has been compiled by Rob King at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, 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/cva/#process
Description: Veritas Storage Foundation is an enterprise storage management application from Symantec. It provides an administration service that is network accessible. This administration service has a flaw in its handling of user data An overlong request could trigger a heap buffer overflow. Successfully exploiting this buffer overflow would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the vulnerable process (usually SYSTEM). Some technical details for this vulnerability are publicly available.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available. Users can mitigate the impact of this vulnerability by blocking access to UDP port 3207 at the network perimeter, if possible.
Description: EMC RepliStor is a popular enterprise backup application. It contains multiple vulnerabilities in its handling of compressed data. A specially crafted request containing compressed data could trigger one of these vulnerabilities, leading to a heap buffer overflow. Successfully exploiting one of these overflows would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the vulnerable process (usually SYSTEM). No authentication is necessary to exploit these vulnerabilities.
Status: EMC confirmed, updates available. Users can mitigate the impact of these vulnerabilities by blocking TCP ports 7144 and 7145 at the network perimeter, if possible.
Description: Opera is a popular cross-platform web browser. It contains multiple vulnerabilities in its handling of certain HTML constructs. A specially crafted web page could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in a different security context than the page that sourced the script. Additionally, a flaw in the rendering of certain elements could lead a user into believing that a file input form is another kind of form, potentially leading to an arbitrary file upload vulnerability with user interaction. Some technical details are publicly available for these vulnerabilities.
Status: Opera confirmed, updates available.
Description: Cisco Unified IP Phones are a range of Voice-over-IP (VoIP) phones from Cisco. They contain multiple flaws in their handling of network traffic. Flaws in the parsing of SSH, DNS, SIP, telnet, ICMP, and HTTP requests could trigger buffer overflows or other vulnerabilities. Successfully exploiting one of these vulnerabilities would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the phone or create a denial-of-service condition. Phones are vulnerable to most of these vulnerabilities in their default configuration.
Status: Cisco confirmed, updates available.
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 5549 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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