@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: Microsoft Windows' ActiveX object corresponding to msnetobj.dll is susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities, including buffer overflow and integer overflow vulnerabilities. This ActiveX control is responsible for acquiring a license for media protected by Digital Rights Management (DRM). It calls GetLicenseFromURL in a separate thread. The classid of the affected ActiveX control is A9FC132B-096D-460B-B7D5-1DB0FAE0C062. By enticing a user to visit a malicious page, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code on a target's machine. Updates are not currently available to address this vulnerability.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates not 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 10135 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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