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March 20, 2014=============================================================
@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert
Vol. 14, Num. 11
Providing a reliable, weekly summary of newly discovered attack vectors, vulnerabilities with active exploits, and explanations of how recent attacks worked.
=============================================================CONTENTS:
NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES 3/12/2014 - 3/18/2014
============================================================TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.44 Memory Corruption Vulnerability)
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TRAINING UPDATE
- -- SANS Northern Virginia Reston, VAMarch 17-22, 2014
11 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Windows Exploratory
Surgery with Process Hacker; Continuous Ownage: Why You Need Continuous
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from IT Operations.
http://www.sans.org/event/northern-virginia-2014
- -- SANS 2014Orlando, FLApril 5-14, 2014
42 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Effective Phishing that
Employees Like; and The Law of Offensive Countermeasures. Active
Defense, or Whatever You Wanna Call It.
http://www.sans.org/event/sans-2014
- -- SANS Security WestSan Diego, CAMay 8-17, 2014
30 courses. Keynote sessions: Emerging Security Trends: Crossing the
Chasm to Protecting a "Choose Your Own IT" World; and Will the Real Next
Generation Security Please Stand Up?
http://www.sans.org/event/sans-security-west-2014
- --SANS Secure Singapore 2014 Singapore, Singapore March 10-26, 2014
7 courses. Bonus evening presentations includes Incident Response and
Forensics in the Cloud.
http://www.sans.org/event/singapore-2014
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11 courses.
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============================================================NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE SOURCEFIRE VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM
Title: Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.44 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description: A double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player could
result in arbitrary code execution.
Reference:
http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html
Snort SID: 29928-29931
Title: Microsoft Internet Explorer 0-day Possibly Targeting French
Aerospace Association (CVE-2014-0322)
Description: A use-after-free vulnerability reported in the way
Microsoft Internet Explorer handles objects could lead to arbitrary code
execution.
Reference:
http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2014/02/14/msie-0-day-exploit-cve-2014-0322-possibly-targeting-french-aerospace-organization.aspx
Snort SID: 29819-29822
ClamAV: HTML.Exploit.CVE_2014_0322
Title: U.S. to relinquish part of its controlling role in managing the
DNS root
Description: The United States government has asked ICANN to begin
drafting a proposal to transition the responsibility of DNS
administration away from the United States, marking the final phase of
DNS privatization set in motion in 1998.
Reference:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/14/03/15/ntia.starts.process.to.end.dns.management.american.monitoring.in.2015/
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
IBM: We never shared client data with NSA
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=16533
Google Public DNS '8.8.8.8' hijacked and used in cyberattack on
Venezuela and Brazil
http://www.cyberwarzone.com/google-public-dns-hacked-8-8-8-8
LightOut is Latest Cyber Threat to Target Energy Sector
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/37461/lightout-is-latest-cyber-threat-to-target-energy-sector/
Application Awareness goes open source: Snort OpenAppID
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/application-awareness-goes-open-source-snort-openappid
RECENT VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
COMPILED BY THE QUALYS VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM.
This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are available. System administrators can use this list to help in prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet activity.
ID: CVE-2014-0783,CVE-2014-0784
Title: Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000 Vulnerabilities
Vendor: Yokogawa
Description: Stack-based buffer overflows in Yokogawa CENTUM CS 3000
R3.09.50 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
via a crafted TCP packet.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C)
ID: CVE-2013-2347
Title: HP Data Protector Backup Client Service Remote Code Execution
Vendor: HP
Description: Unspecified vulnerability in HP Storage Data Protector 6.2X
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of
service via unknown vectors, aka ZDI-CAN-1885.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2014-0750
Title: GE Proficy CIMPLICITY gefebt.exe Remote Code Execution
Vendor: GE
Description: Directory traversal vulnerability in gefebt.exe in the
WebView CimWeb components in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy HMI/SCADA
- - CIMPLICITY through 8.2 SIM 24, and Proficy Process Systems with
CIMPLICITY, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a
crafted HTTP request, aka ZDI-CAN-1622.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
ID: CVE-2014-0502
Title: Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.44 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before
11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and
Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628
on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK &
Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2014-0322
Title: Internet Explorer CMarkup use-after-free vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors
involving crafted JavaScript code, as exploited in the wild in January
and February 2014.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2012-1823
Title: PHP CGI Query String Parameter Processing Remote Code Execution
Vulnerability
Vendor: PHP
Description: sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in PHP before 5.3.12 and 5.4.x before
5.4.2, when configured as a CGI script (aka php-cgi), does not properly
handle query strings that lack an = (equals sign) character, which
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by placing
command-line options in the query string, related to lack of skipping a
certain php_getopt for the 'd' case.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES 3/12/2014 - 3/18/2014
COMPILED BY SOURCEFIRE
SHA 256: A1A212E0B59ABBB2F520F1D35E68AE00944931A5A0A514947555359CCEF2366F
MD5: 09b8de9389103831a84bb1711ebef153
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/A1A212E0B59ABBB2F520F1D35E68AE00944931A5A0A514947555359CCEF2366F/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: wajam_update.exe
Claimed Product: WaJam
Detection Name: W32.A1A212E0B5-100.SBX.VIOC
SHA 256: 180C6035CA44C270B8E1556A7B2E9FAF442D1B4323EF6D8E93B7E759AF169C96
MD5: 44e5b5dc6a27ea109b8a234e640bb5fd
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/180C6035CA44C270B8E1556A7B2E9FAF442D1B4323EF6D8E93B7E759AF169C96/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: BitGuard.exe
Claimed Product: BitGuard Protector
Detection Name: W32.Generic:BProtector.17dy.1201
SHA 256: B4C75CD45BFB53F20E15F79481959DAA8B1C9BD3C67D3E610D5C70DFC8136F59
MD5: 2d6ae689ff1a5ed7dac0cf6abea060c7
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/B4C75CD45BFB53F20E15F79481959DAA8B1C9BD3C67D3E610D5C70DFC8136F59/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: cltmng.exe
Claimed Product: Conduit Search Protect
Detection Name: W32.B4C75CD45B-100.SBX.VIOC
SHA 256: DF83A0D6940600E4C4954F4874FCD4DD73E781E6690C3BF56F51C95285484A3C
MD5: 25aa9bb549ecc7bb6100f8d179452508
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/DF83A0D6940600E4C4954F4874FCD4DD73E781E6690C3BF56F51C95285484A3C/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: wincdgja.exe
Claimed Product: Sality
Detection Name: W32.Sality:StubOfSalityTrj.17co.1201
SHA 256: B65A6A814914A8A94DBFEEE228F70009BDFEF18A3A76692FFE0234B789A3A9A7
MD5: 609b83259466f78ec2014119b22100f8
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/B65A6A814914A8A94DBFEEE228F70009BDFEF18A3A76692FFE0234B789A3A9A7/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: cbsidlm-cbsi183-AOMEI_Partition_Assistant_Lite_Edition-BP-75629288 (1).exe
Claimed Product: CNET Download.com
Detection Name: W32.B65A6A8149-100.SBX.VIOC
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