@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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Almost unheard of ten years ago, electronic discovery is today chewing up IT resources - equipment, services and staff time. Recognizing that many electronic records such as e-mail, spreadsheets and text messages might some day be demanded in a lawsuit or freedom-of-information request, what policy should your enterprise adopt for retaining and destroying electronic records? Find out at the SANS WhatWorks: Legal Issues and PCI Compliance in Information Security Summit 2010
http://www.sans.org/info/64463 ****************************************************************** TRAINING UPDATE New "Combating Malware in the Enterprise" course at SANS (SEC569). How do you fight off malware when you have thousands of hosts? Course debut in Las Vegas (Sept'10) and Washington DC (Dec'10): http://www.sans.org/security-training/combating-malware-enterprise-1482-mid - -- SANS Network Security 2010, Las Vegas, September 19-27, 2010 41 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 6 courses http://www.sans.org/singapore-sos-2010/ - -- SANS Chicago 2010, Skokie, Illinois, October 25-30, 2010 6 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Weaponizing LISP: Advancing the Art of Network Security and Examining the Global Underground of Malicious Actors http://www.sans.org/chicago-2010/night.php - -- SANS San Francisco 2010, November 5-12, 2010 7 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Weaponizing LISP: Advancing the Art of Network Security http://www.sans.org/san-francisco-2010/ - -- SANS London 2010, November 27-December 6, 2010 14 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Latest Advances in Computer Forensics and Continuous Vulnerability Testing and Remediation: The 20 Critical Security Controls Perspective http://www.sans.org/london-2010/ - -- SANS Cyber Defense Initiative 2010, Washington DC, December 10-17, 2010 24 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Browser Based Defenses; Continuous Vulnerability Testing and Remediation: the 20 Critical Security Controls Perspective; and Cyberwar or Business as Usual? The State of US Federal CyberSecurity Efforts http://www.sans.org/cyber-defense-initiative-2010/ - -- Looking for training in your own community? http://sans.org/community/ Save on On-Demand training (30 full courses) - See samples at http://www.sans.org/ondemand/discounts.php#current Plus London, Dubai, Geneva, Bangalore, San Antonio and Sydney 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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1) The SANS PCI Compliance Summit being held this September in Las Vegas is the premiere event for getting real-world information on what works and what doesn't when it comes to compliance with the PCI/DSS. Especially with the update due this August and recent deadlines for compliance with certain aspects of the standard, it's our responsibility as PCI implementers to make sure that we've done everything required to make our organizations compliant. http://www.sans.org/info/64468 ******************************************************************
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: Adobe Reader and Acrobat are susceptible to an 0-day code-execution vulnerability. This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. A boundary error in the font-parsing code of CoolType.dll can be exploited by an attacker in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine. Note that a target must entice a user to download and view a malicious file in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates not available
Description: Mozilla has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in Firefox. Some of these vulnerabilities may be exploitable for code execution. Potentially serious vulnerabilities include multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in the browser engine, a heap-based buffer overflow in Firefox's code handling the HTML frameset element, an invalid pointer in plugin-handling code, a buffer overflow in the code responsible for transforming text runs, a use-after-free vulnerability in the code for handling XUL tree selections, a memory corruption vulnerability in the code handling XUL tree objects, a memory corruption vulnerability in the code handling of "nsTreeContentView," a memory corruption vulnerability in the code used to normalize documents, and a memory corruption vulnerability in font-handling code on Macintosh systems. Note that all of these problems require an attacker to entice the target to view a malicious web page.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple Safari has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be used by an attacker for code execution. These vulnerabilities are due to two memory corruption vulnerabilities. Both of these vulnerabilities require an attacker to entice the target to navigate to a malicious site in order to exploit them.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google Chrome has released a patch for multiple security vulnerabilities. Details are not fully disclosed publicly, but some of the vulnerabilities may allow for remote code execution. Vulnerabilities rated "High" by Google include a stale SVG (scalable vector graphics) pointer, a use-after-free condition in Notifications presenter, a memory corruption in Notification permissions, Integer errors in WebSockets, a memory corruption with counter nodes, a stale pointer in focus handling, and a sandbox parameter deserialization error.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple has recently released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in Apple iPhone OS. These vulnerabilities include a memory corruption vulnerability in the code handling TIFF images in ImageIO, a buffer overflow in the code handling GIF images in ImageIO, a double free vulnerability in WebKit when handling inline elements, a use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit when handling selections, and a use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit's code for handling scrollbars.
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 9819 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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