@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 Joshua Bronson 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: Free Download Manager, a popular client for HTTP and BitTorrent downloads, is susceptible to multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities that can lead to code execution. By enticing the user to visit a specially crafted web or FTP site, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute code with the permissions of the currently logged-in user. According to publicly available research by Secunia, the issue has been acknowledged by the vendor and patched in version 3.0, Build 852. But while version 3.0, Build 852 is available on the vendor's web site, neither acknowledgment of the vulnerability nor information about the update appear to be present there.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Ghostscript, a software suite for interpreting postscript and portable document format (PDF) documents, is susceptible to a buffer overflow vulnerability. By enticing the user to process a malicious postscript file, an attacker can exploit the vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the currently logged-in user. Ghostscript is used in a variety of applications, including some installations of the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS).
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: IrvanView, a popular graphics viewer for Microsoft Windows, is susceptible to two buffer overflow vulnerabilities. By enticing the user to open a malicious PSD file, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the currently logged-in user.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Part II -- Comprehensive List of Newly Discovered Vulnerabilities from Qualys (www.qualys.com) Week 21, 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 9524 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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