@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).
@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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TRAINING UPDATE
- -- SANS Northern Virginia Bootcamp 2010, April 6-13 Bonus evening presentations include Safe Surfing: How to Surf the Net Without Getting PWND
http://www.sans.org/reston-2010/
- -- SANS Security West 2010, San Diego, May 7-15, 2010 23 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Killer Bee: Exploiting ZigBee and the Kinetic World
http://www.sans.org/security-west-2010/
- -- SANSFIRE 2010, Baltimore, June 6-14, 2010 38 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Software Security Street Fighting Style and The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
http://www.sans.org/sansfire-2010/
- -- SANSFIRE Rocky Mountain 2010, Denver, July 12-17, 2010 8 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Hiding in Plain Sight: Forensic techniques to Counter the Advanced Persistent Threat
http://www.sans.org/rocky-mountain-2010/
- -- SANS Boston 2010, August 2-8, 2010 11 courses
http://www.sans.org/boston-2010/
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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: Mozilla Firefox, an open source web-browser from the Mozilla Application Suite, is the second most popular browser with a usage share of 24.52% and increasing. A use-after-free vulnerability has been identified in Firefox and it can be exploited by a specially crafted web page. The specific flaw is caused by an error while moving DOM nodes in between documents and by triggering a garbage collection at the right time. Successful exploitation might allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application. Technical details for these vulnerabilities are available via source code analysis.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: Foxit reader is a multilingual Portable Document Format (PDF) reader and is known for its faster and simpler method of loading and saving the document and smaller file size. A vulnerability has been identified in Foxit Reader which can be triggered by a specially crafted PDF file. The specific flaw is that the vulnerable application automatically executes, without user's permission, executable programs that are embedded in a PDF document. This is facilitated by the use of "Launch Action" command to run the embedded executable. Full technical details for this vulnerability are publicly available along with a proof-of-concept.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Description: XOsoft Inc, acquired by Computer Associates (CA), are developers of replication software for different types of recovery, thereby making sure that critical applications and data are always available. Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in CA XOsoft which be exploited by attackers to either gain sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. The first issue is caused by lack of authentication while processing SOAP requests and this might enable attackers to enumerate user names. The second issue is again caused by lack of authentication while processing SOAP requests and this might enable attackers and this might enable attackers to gain access to potentially sensitive information. The third issue is caused by an error in "/ws_man/xosoapapi.asmx" SOAP endpoint and this might enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code via malformed requests to the server. The fourth issue is a boundary error in "/entry_point.aspx" service and successful exploitation in this case might lead to remote code execution. Some technical details for some of the vulnerabilities are publicly available.
Status: Vendor confirmed, updates available.
Part II -- Comprehensive List of Newly Discovered Vulnerabilities from Qualys (www.qualys.com) Week 15, 2010 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 9001 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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