@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 Critical Vulnerabilities Part I for this issue has been compiled by Josh 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: Adobe Flash is susceptible to multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities. By enticing the user to navigate to a malicious site, an attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the currently logged-in user. One vulnerability involves code used to parse images embedded in Flash files. The other vulnerability involves MP4 streams maliciously embedded in a Flash file.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple has reported and patched multiple vulnerabilities for Mac OS X. By enticing the user to visit a maliciously crafted web site, an attacker can exploit one of several vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code. The code-execution vulnerabilities are as follows: a cross-site scripting issue in the Help Viewer; an integer overflow in the handling of TIFF files; a memory corruption vulnerability in the handling of MPEG2-encoded movie files; an integer overflow in AES and RC4 decryption; a double free vulnerability in the ticket-renewal and ticket-validation code of the KDC process; a buffer overflow in libcurl's code handling gzip-compressed web content; a format string vulnerability in the handling of afb, cifs, and smb URIs; and an integer overflow in the calculation of page sizes.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: HP OpenView, a product for monitoring and managing networks, is susceptible to a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability can by triggered by an attacker by sending malicious HTTP requests to the jovgraph.exe CGI application. Successful exploitation can lead to remote code execution.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Novell Netware, a network operating system by Novell, is susceptible to a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. By sending malicious SMB "Sessions and Setup AndX" packets, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. The specific flaw exists in the "CIFS.NLM" driver.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Samba, a Windows interoperability suite for Unix-like systems, is susceptible to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Maliciously chained SMB1 packets can be used by an unauthenticated attacker to exploit the vulnerability and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the service.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Part II -- Comprehensive List of Newly Discovered Vulnerabilities from Qualys (www.qualys.com) 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 9643 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________