@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: Microsoft Office has released a security patch for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Office. By sending a malicious rich text format (RTF) email, an attacker can exploit one of the vulnerabilities in order to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the currently logged-in user. This particular vulnerability does not appear to require user interaction beyond viewing or previewing the email. Microsoft notes in its security bulletin that updates are not yet available for Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. Microsoft has also released updates addressing unspecified security advisories in Power Point.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Adobe has released a patch for an unspecified memory-corruption vulnerability affecting its Flash Media Server. Flash Media Server is a hub for flash applications. It serves flash content via the Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). Because this vulnerability lies in the server, it is likely that user interaction is unnecessary to exploit this vulnerability. According to Adobe, this vulnerability can be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple OS X 10.5.X is susceptible to a memory corruption vulnerability triggered by a malicious portable document format (PDF) file. By enticing a target to view a file with a malicious embedded CFF font, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability is a variant of the one used by JailBreakMe.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Apple has released a security patch for QuickTime, its multimedia viewer. By enticing the user to open a malicious file, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerable code, responsible for parsing H.264 codec data, fails to correctly calculate the length of a heap buffer. This buffer can can subsequently overflow.
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 10459 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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