@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: Oracle has released a cumulative security patch for a wide range of its products on October 15, 2009. This Critical Patch Update contains 38 new security fixes across different products. Flaws addressed in this update include remote command execution vulnerabilities, denial of service issues, information disclosure vulnerabilities, SQL injection vulnerabilities, security restrictions bypass issues, and certain data manipulation. Authenticated users are required to exploit most of these vulnerabilities. Some technical details for some of these vulnerabilities are publicly available.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: Mozilla Firefox web-browser based on the Mozilla suite of applications and Mozilla SeaMonkey a cross-platform Internet suite from Mozilla contains multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by attackers to bypass security restriction, disclose information, or compromise an affects system. Among other vulnerabilities there is a memory corruption error caused by improper allocation of spaces for floating point numbers. There is a memory corruption error while processing recursive web-worker calls. There is a heap-overflow error when processing GIF color maps. There is an error in "XPCVariant::VariantDataToJS()" XPCOM utility which might allow execution of malicious JavaScript code. There are some more memory corruption errors in JavaScript and Browser Engines and in liboggz library. Technical details for these vulnerabilities is available via source code analysis.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: Opera is a popular cross-platform Web browser developed by Opera Software company. Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Opera that might lead to information disclosure, security bypass, or compromise of the affected system. The first issue is a memory corruption error in Opera, caused by specially crafted domain names. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The second issue is that Opera allows scripts to be run on the feed subscription page, which might be lead to automatic subscription of feeds or reading other feeds. The third issue is caused by Opera incorrectly using the Web fonts which might be used to conduct spoofing attacks. Some technical details for these vulnerabilities are publicly available.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: Sun Java System Web server is a cross-platform web server developed by Sun Microsystems designed mainly for medium and large business applications. An buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Sun Java System Web Server. The vulnerability is caused by an unspecified error resulting from inadequate boundary checks on the user supplied inputs. Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application. Technical details for this vulnerability are not publicly available.
Status: Vendor not 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 7553 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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