@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: Multiple Adobe products are susceptible to an unspecified 0-day vulnerability that could allow for code execution. An attacker must entice a target to view a malicious document in order to exploit this vulnerability. Adobe has received reports that this issue is being actively exploited in the wild.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates not available
Description: Mozilla has recently released patches for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Firefox. The flaws include a boundary-checking error, a use-after-free error, a memory corruption vulnerability in code used to support XUL <tree> objects, and a memory corruption vulnerability in the implementation of a particular element in the XUL namespace. All of these flaws require the attacker to entice the target to navigate to a malicious web site for exploitation.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple has recently released a patch to address a vulnerability in Apple WebKit. The vulnerability involves a use-after-free condition in code handling run-in styling. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker must entice the target to navigate to a malicious web site.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google Chrome has release a patch for multiple vulnerabilities, including some that may be exploitable for code execution. Included in Google's advisory are three use-after-free vulnerabilities, two of which relate to SVG, and two memory corruption vulnerabilities.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
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 10074 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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