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March 12, 2015=============================================================
@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert
Vol. 15, Num. 10
Providing a reliable, weekly summary of newly discovered attack vectors, vulnerabilities with active exploits, and explanations of how recent attacks worked.
Archived issues may be found at http://www.sans.org/newsletters/risk/
=============================================================CONTENTS:
NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES 2015-03-03 - 2015-03-10
============================================================TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2015: 14 Bulletins Released
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TRAINING UPDATE
- -SANS Secure Canberra 2015 | Canberra, Australia | March 16 - 28, 2015
5 courses.
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12 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Continuous Ownage: Why
You Need Continuous Monitoring; and Debunking the Complex password Myth.
http://www.sans.org/u/Wl
-SANS 2015 | Orlando, FL | April 11-April 18, 2015
45 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Understanding the Offense to
Build a Better Defense; and The Law of Offensive Countermeasures, Active
Defense, or Whatever You Wanna Call It.
http://www.sans.org/u/Wv
Security Operations Center (SOC) Summit | Washington, DC | April 24 -
May 1, 2015 | Join chairmen Dr. Eric Cole and Jim Goddard as well as
others who have faced similar challenges in increasing their enterprise's
situational awareness and monitoring as well as responding to threats. 4
courses including the NEW SEC511 Continuous Monitoring and Security
Operations course http://www.sans.org/u/1ps
- - -SANS Security West 2015 | San Diego, CA | May 3-May 12, 2015
29 courses. Bonus evening presentations include Emerging Trends in DFIR:
Lightning Talks; and Enterprise PowerShell for Remote Security
Assessment.
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NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM
Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday for March 2015: 14 Bulletins Released;
FREAK Patched
Description: Microsoft has released their monthly set of advisories to
address security defects within their products. Fourteen bulletins were
released. Five are rated critical and nine are rated important.
Additionally, the FREAK vulnerability has also been patched in this
month's set of patches.
Reference: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/ms15-mar
Snort SID: 21232, 33287-33288, 33705-33739, 33741-33744, 33760-33811
Title: Apple Releases Security Updates for OS X, iOS, and Other Apps.
Description: Apple has release security updates for OS X, iOS, Apple TV,
and Xcode. These updates include patches for the FREAK vulnerability
and an iCloud keychain vulnerability that could allow remote code
execution within iOS and OS X. Other information disclosure and remote
code execution vulnerabilities were also resolved with this round of
updates.
Reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1222
Snort SID: Detection pending
Title: Xen Project Releases Security Advisories
Description: The Xen Product Security Team has released security
advisories for Xen Hypervisor. These advisories address vulnerabilities
that could allow hypervisor memory corruption due to a flaw within the
x86 emulator and information disclosures flaws.
Reference: http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
Google Project Zero: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel
privileges
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html
Full details on CVE-2015-0096 and the failed MS10-046 Stuxnet fix
http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Full-details-on-CVE-2015-0096-and-the-failed-MS10-046-Stuxnet/ba-p/6718459
Malicious Word Macro Caught Using Sneaky Trick
http://www.kahusecurity.com/2015/malicious-word-macro-caught-using-sneaky-trick/
OpenSSL to Undergo Major Audit
http://www.darkreading.com/openssl-to-undergo-major-audit/d/d-id/1319392
ThreatPost Staff watched "CSI: Cyber" so that the rest of us didn't have to
https://threatpost.com/csi-cyber-we-watched-so-you-didnt-have-to/111440
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-2014-7285
Title: Symantec Web Gateway 5 restore.php Post Authentication Command
Injection
Vendor: Symantec
Description: The management console on the Symantec Web Gateway (SWG)
appliance before 5.2.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute
arbitrary OS commands by injecting command strings into unspecified PHP
scripts.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
ID: CVE-2014-8687
Title: Seagate Business NAS Pre-Authentication Remote Code Execution
Vendor: Seagate
Description: A remote exploitation of an input validation error
vulnerability in Seagate Technology Inc.'s Business NAS, could allow
attackers to execute arbitrary code on the targeted host. The issue is
due to improper user input of PHP code within the language files on the
login page. Seagate's Business NAS versions 2014.00319 and prior are
vulnerable.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2015-1497
Title: Persistent Systems Client Automation Command Injection Remote
Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Persistent Systems
Description: radexecd.exe in Persistent Systems Radia Client Automation
(RCA) 7.9, 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1 allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary commands via a crafted request to TCP port 3465.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2015-0310
Title: Adobe Flash Player Memory Address Randomization Design Error
Security Bypass Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.262 and 14.x through 16.x
before 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.438 on Linux
does not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows
attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism on Windows, and have
an unspecified impact on other platforms, via unknown vectors, as
exploited in the wild in January 2015.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2014-4114
Title: Microsoft Windows OLE - Remote Code Execution "Sandworm" Exploit
(MS14-060)
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and
R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold
and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allow remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code via a crafted OLE object in an Office document, as
exploited in the wild with a "Sandworm" attack in June through October
2014, aka "Windows OLE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2014-7169
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings
after certain malformed function definitions in the values of
environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files
or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as
demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH
sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server,
scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in
which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from
Bash execution. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete
fix for CVE-2014-6271.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2014-6271
Title: Multiple Vendor Bash Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multiple Vendors
Description: GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after
function definitions in the values of environment variables, which
allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted
environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand
feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache
HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other
situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege
boundary from Bash execution, aka "ShellShock." NOTE: the original fix
for this issue was incorrect; CVE-2014-7169 has been assigned to cover
the vulnerability that is still present after the incorrect fix.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES 2015-03-03 - 2015-03-10:
COMPILED BY TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
SHA 256: 018359F369B9F805F102A8FA89F03758FFC081F603E565628AD58829B8366952
MD5: 401fb0f598d33d6d64c00624f051a63a
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/018359F369B9F805F102A8FA89F03758FFC081F603E565628AD58829B8366952/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: EpicRISVRCommandLink.exe
Claimed Product: ERISVRCommandLink
Detection Name: W32.Variant:Dropper.17j2.1201
SHA 256: 1D94C27748E7D0DC5FFD03AE99ACD9C30AAA8A6E91A66BEAB420650F9D6E4977
MD5: eb843f08b06cc5bb0e8bbe9f8aaa0ba6
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/1D94C27748E7D0DC5FFD03AE99ACD9C30AAA8A6E91A66BEAB420650F9D6E4977/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: 3uhYJZ81y66VEXc.exe
Detection Name: W32.Variant:Gen.17nv.1201
SHA 256: 55F173FB7CE33654D379663215DE48BD2F13CA4A607CBE4D90962DE33A4972E6
MD5: 1caf9472c70fb3567b85e1977a393720
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/55F173FB7CE33654D379663215DE48BD2F13CA4A607CBE4D90962DE33A4972E6/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: Runner.exe
Claimed Product: Search Protect
Detection Name: W32.SearchProtect.17nv.dk
SHA 256: 13598D15D0BA3B8F64C0EE9F917AF63D07E8DCC2D1D1369BD1993885D2B7CD6C
MD5: 0e54ffd66c780828be807e9cc41eadea
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/13598D15D0BA3B8F64C0EE9F917AF63D07E8DCC2D1D1369BD1993885D2B7CD6C/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: ssssibtdg.exe
Claimed Product: Safe Web
Detection Name: W32.Gen:Adware.18dp.1201
SHA 256: BA741C0FADE34763BC7A93403BE04044C117BD847D31AFB044B6FFC6FF4DDF39
MD5: b0fea3541f5fa68d2a9a7172cb3ec083
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/BA741C0FADE34763BC7A93403BE04044C117BD847D31AFB044B6FFC6FF4DDF39/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: cltmngui.exe
Claimed Product: Search Protect
Detection Name: W32.BA741C0FAD-100.SBX.VIOC
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