@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: Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey, and Thunderbird are susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities, some of which may be used to execute arbitrary code on a target machine. In addition to several unspecified issues with the browser Engine, there are problems with the browser's handling of certain types of menus, certain types of DOM nodes and their movement, references shared by multiple plugins, XSLT transformations applied to XML documents
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple iOS, the operating system used on its popular iPhone and iPod platforms, is susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities, some of which can be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine. The vast majority of these vulnerabilities require an attacker to navigate to a malicious page, but some may have multiple attack vectors. For instance, the code used to convert binary floating point to text in libSystem is susceptible to a buffer overflow attack, so any application calling this code with user-defined input may be vulnerable.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple Flash player is susceptible to a memory corruption vulnerability. The vulnerability is triggered when ActionScript native object 2200 is called multiple times with differing strings. By enticing a target to open a malicious page, 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) 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 9679 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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