@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 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. Special Events include Rapid Response Security Strategy Competition
http://www.sans.org/boston-2010/
- -- SANS Virginia Beach 2010, August 29-September 3, 2010 9 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Future Trends in Network Security
http://www.sans.org/virginia-beach-2010/
- -- SANS Network Security 2010, Las Vegas, September 19-27, 2010 40 courses. Bonus evening presentations include The Return of Command Line Kung Fu and Cyberwar or Business as Usual? The State of US Federal CyberSecurity Initiatives
http://www.sans.org/network-security-2010/
- -- SOS: SANS October Singapore, October 4-11, 2010 7 courses
http://www.sans.org/singapore-sos-2010/
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Plus Kuala Lumpur, Washington DC, Canberra and Portland all in the next 90 days. For a list of all upcoming events, on-line and live: http://www.sans.org/index.php
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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 Acrobat has recently released a patch for multiple vulnerabilities, including one previously reported zero-day vulnerability that had been seen exploited in the wild. These vulnerabilities can be exploited in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine. In order to exploit these vulnerabilities, an attacker must entice the victim to view malicious content.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Multiple Mozilla products are susceptible to an integer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability, which is due to a bug in the routine used to set the text value for certain types of DOM elements, can be exploited in order to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the currently logged-in user.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google Chrome is susceptible to multiple security vulnerabilities. Google does not typically release details of its vulnerabilities until well after they are reported and patched, so it is impossible to determine their severity. Three of the vulnerabilities potentially have to do with memory corruption, so it is possible that some of them can be used for code execution.
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 9695 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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