@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 Josh Bronson at TippingPoint, a division of HP, 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: Google has recently released an update for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Google Chrome. While the severity of these vulnerabilities is unspecified, some of them are memory corruption vulnerabilities, which can often be exploited for code execution. The memory corruption vulnerabilities involve the file dialog, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), MIME type handling, Ruby support, and Geolocation support. All of these vulnerabilities appear to require the target to navigate to a malicious site for exploitation.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Adobe has released a patch for Shockwave Player in order to address several vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution. The vulnerabilities involve parsing errors in Shockwave's handling of 3D objects and Director files. An attacker must entice a target to visit a malicious site in order to exploit these vulnerabilities, which could lead to code execution.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
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 9947 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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