OpenOffice is the only tool that needs to be updated right away. Otherwise another quiet week.
You might find it of interest that the targeted attacks are growing in number and sophistication, but most are using old vulnerabilities because they don't seem to have to worry about comprehensive patching.
Sad.
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 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: OpenOffice.org is an open-source office software suite for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems. Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenOffice.org which can be triggered by opening a specially crafted Microsoft Word document with vulnerable installations of OpenOffice.org. The first issue is an integer underflow error in OpenOffice.org while parsing certain records in the Word document table. The second issue is a boundary error while parsing certain records which can lead to heap overflow. Successful exploitation in both the cases might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Note that, depending upon configuration; documents may be opened by the vulnerable application upon receipt, without first prompting the user. Full technical details for this vulnerability are available via source code analysis.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). The specific flaw is a boundary error in the FTP service in the Microsoft IIS while processing a specially crafted Name List (NLST) command. For the exploit to be successful, an attacker would require write permissions to log on and to create a long crafted directory name. In some cases if the attacker has a write access, then the attacker doesn't need to be authenticated. Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the local system. Technical details for the vulnerability are publicly available.
Status: Vendor confirmed, no updates available.
Description: MailEnable is an enterprise-level mail server solution from Microsoft Windows providing email access over a variety of protocols. A stack based buffer overflow vulnerability has been identified in MailEnable. The specific flaw is in the 'MEHTTPS.EXE' service as it fails to perform proper bounds checking on user-supplied data. Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and unsuccessful attempts might lead to a denial-of-service condition. Technical details for the vulnerability are publicly available.
Status: Vendor confirmed, no updates available.
Description: Sun Solaris, a UNIX-based operating system from Sun Microsystems, has a denial-of-service vulnerability. A specially crafted HTTP request can be used to trigger this vulnerability. The flaw is caused by an unspecified error in the "sockfs" kernel module while handling web-server traffic. For an exploit to be successful Network Cache Accelerator (NCA) logging has to be enabled. Some technical details are provided for this vulnerabilities.
Status: Vendor 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 7394 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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