@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/risk/#process
Description: Adobe Shockwave Player is susceptible to an unspecified 0-day vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a target's machine. An attacker must entice the user to view a malicious site in order to exploit this vulnerability. Adobe Shockwave Player is widely installed and is used to view streaming videos like YouTube over HTTP. An exploit has reportedly been published for this vulnerability.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates not available
Description: Mozilla has recently released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities, some of which may lead to code execution. In addition to several memory safety bugs discovered by Mozilla developers, Mozilla has patched a vulnerability related to the document.write Javascript function. When called with an overlong string, the function created an inconsistent state in text rendering routines. Accessing the locationbar property of a Javascript window object created a use-after-free condition, and window.__lookupGetter__ can be called with no arguments in order to create another use-after-free condition. All of these vulnerabilities could potentially lead to code execution. Attackers must entice a target to navigate to a malicious site in order to exploit them.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: RealNetworks has recently released a patch for multiple security vulnerabilities in RealPlayer, its widely-installed media player. The first issue is related to Name Value Pairs within logical streams in a RealPlayer media file. The second involves an injection vulnerability in RealPlayer's ActiveX control. The third involves incorrect parsing of CDDA URIs. The fourth involves parsing .IVR files with malformed sample data. All of these vulnerabilities can potentially allow code execution on the part of an attacker, who must entice a target to open a malicious file in order to exploit them.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Google has recently released updates for its web browser, Google Chrome. Google lists multiple vulnerabilities that appear to be vectors for code execution. In particular, an unspecified memory corruption issue exists within Google's handling of animated GIFs. Google Chrome automatically installs updates when it has access to Google's servers.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: VideoLAN VLC Media Player, a popular cross-platform media player, is susceptible to a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code on a target's machine. If VLC is installed as a plug-in for Firefox, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the currently logged-in user. The attacker must entice the victim to view a malicious site.
Status: vendor not confirmed, updates not avalable
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 10350 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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