Lotus Notes users and users of Symantec's Mail Security, Brightmail and DLP all need to patch, but for everyone else, it is the second quiet week in a row.
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).
********************* Sponsored By HP (SPI Dynamics) ********************
Today's security challenges: Hundreds of applications. Few security experts. Looming compliance deadlines. Tight budgets. Join HP & security experts from around the world for a virtual conference on Sept. 29-30. We'll discuss these challenges in the context of emerging Web 2.0 & Cloud technologies. "HP Functionality, Performance & Security Testing in today's application realities." Register Now. http://www.sans.org/info/47773
*************************************************************************
*********************** SPONSORED LINKS: ******************************
1) Register today for SANS vLive course, Audit 423: SANS(r) +S(tm) Training for the CISA(r) Certification Exam and receive 10% discount. http://www.sans.org/info/47778
2) In case you missed it...SANS Analyst Webcast: Top Ten Virtualization Security Mistakes and How to Avoid Them. http://www.sans.org/info/47783
*************************************************************************
Part I for this issue has been compiled by Rohan Kotian 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: Autonomy KeyView Software Developer's Kit (SDK) is a collection of many file parsing libraries and is used by many popular vendors such as Lotus Notes and Symantec. This SDK is used to automatically parse and display different document formats, one of them is Microsoft Excel 97 format. Heap overflow vulnerability has been identified in Autonomy KeyView SDK while parsing a "Shared String Table (SST)" record within an Excel file. A specially crafted Excel file when processed by an application using the vulnerable Autonomy KeyView SDK will trigger the vulnerability. The specific flaw is caused due to an integer overflow error within the KeyView XLS viewer "xlssr.dll". Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code execution with different privileges depending on the application that is using the vulnerable Autonomy KeyView SDK. In some products the attack vector will be via an email attachment with the user having to view the malicious file; however in some cases file processing will take place automatically. Some technical details are publicly available for this vulnerability.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: Google Chrome, a web browser developed by Google, is the fourth most popular web browser with 2.59% usage share among all the web browsers. A vulnerability has been identified in Google Chrome, which can be triggered while parsing a specially crafted web page. The specific flaw is in the V8 JavaScript engine, Google's open source JavaScript engine, which might allow a specially crafted web page with JavaScript to bypass security checks and read restricted memory. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability might allow an attacker to disclose sensitive data or execute arbitrary code within the Google Chrome sandbox. Full technical details publicly available via source code analysis.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: Symantec Altiris Deployment Solutions is a software tool designed to manage operating system patches and deploy different software's on servers, desktops, notebooks etc. Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution which might result in privilege escalation, information disclosure, a denial-of-service condition and potential compromise of the client system. Some technical details are provided for these vulnerabilities.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: LabTam ProFTP is a software tool consisting of client implementations of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) program and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) program among other features. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in Labtam ProFTP which could be triggered by a specially crafted message sent from a malicious FTP server. The specific flaw is a boundary error while processing long greeting messages sent by a server. Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. The victim user will have to be tricked into connecting to the specially crafted FTP server. Full technical details are publicly available for this vulnerability.
Status: Vendor confirmed, no 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 7394 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
(c) 2009. All rights reserved. The information contained in this newsletter, including any external links, is provided "AS IS," with no express or implied warranty, for informational purposes only. In some cases, copyright for material in this newsletter may be held by a party other than Qualys (as indicated herein) and permission to use such material must be requested from the copyright owner.
Subscriptions: @RISK is distributed free of charge by the SANS Institute to people responsible for managing and securing information systems and networks. You may forward this newsletter to others with such responsibility inside or outside your organization.