@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: Between November 28th and December 2nd, 2010, the ProFTPD FTP site distributed a version of ProFTPD with a backdoor installed. This was due to an earlier compromise of the server that went undetected initially; attackers apparently broke into the site and uploaded the malicious version of the software.
Status: vendor confirmed, updates available
Description: Nullsoft has released a patch for security vulnerabilities in its Winamp software. By enticing the user to view a malicious NSV (Nullsoft Video) an attacker can exploit this vulnerability in order to execute arbitrary code on the target's machine. These vulnerabilities are due to errors parsing user-supplied input: namely, the table of contents of the NSV stream.
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 10603 unique vulnerabilities. For this special SANS community listing, Qualys also includes vulnerabilities that cannot be scanned remotely.
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