@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 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: RealNetworks has released an update addressing multiple vulnerabilities for RealPlayer. RealPlayer is a widely-installed multimedia player capable of playing a variety of video and audio formats like MP3, MPEG-4, and QuickTime. The vulnerabilities involve a malformed pointer, integer and heap-based overflows in RealPlayer's code to parse QCP files, an unspecified vulnerability in RealPlayer's processing of YUV420 transformation of MP4 content, and multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in RealPlayer's code to parse FLV files. An attacker must entice the target to open a malicious file in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: The Apple QuickTime QTPlugin.ocx ActiveX control is susceptible to a code execution vulnerability. Because the control treats the user-provided _Marshaled_pUnk parameter as a valid pointer, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability by passing an invalid pointer as the value for that parameter. An attacker must entice the target to navigate to a malicious web site in order to exploit this vulnerability. Apple has not yet released an update for this vulnerability.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates not available
Part II -- Comprehensive List of Newly Discovered Vulnerabilitis 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 9819 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely. ______________________________________________________________________
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