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June 18, 2015=============================================================
@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert
Vol. 15, Num. 24
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 2015-06-09 - 2015-06-16
============================================================TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK:OpenSSL Security Advisory and Updates Released
*********** Sponsored By Ultra Electronics, 3eTI ***********Cyber Security Strategies: Protecting Your ICS Investments a discussion with Ultra-3eti and Mike Assante of SANS
Friday, June 26 at 1:00 PM EST (17:00:00 UTC) with Michael Assante and
Alex Tarter, Ph.D. Learn how to prevent cyber-attacks to preserve and
protect your operations and strategic infrastructure investments. Learn
high-efficiency approaches to securely implement true end-to-end
embedded security that will work with current operational systems and
secure all devices connected to your network without sacrificing
productivity and safety standards.
http://www.sans.org/info/178517
TRAINING UPDATE
- - --SANSFIRE 2015 | Baltimore, MD | June 13-20, 2015 |
41 courses plus 18 bonus evening sessions lead by Internet Storm Center
(ISC) handlers, including The State of the Takedown: Disrupting Online
Cybercrime; Continuous Monitoring and Real-World Analysis;
Unconventional Linux Incident Response; and "Network Security as
Counterinsurgency" Replacing the Art of War with FM 3-24.
http://www.sans.org/u/3hq
- - --SANS Rocky Mountain 2015 | Denver, CO | June 22-27, 2015 |
http://www.sans.org/event/rocky-mountain-2015
NewsBites: http://www.sans.org/u/3h1
@Risk: http://www.sans.org/u/3h6
- --SANS Pen Test Berlin 2015 | Berlin, Germany | June 22-27, 2015 |
6 courses.
http://www.sans.org/u/3gR
- --Cyber Defense Canberra 2015 | Canberra, Australia | June 29-July 11, 2015 |
8 courses.
http://www.sans.org/u/3hb
- --DFIR Summit & Training | Austin, TX | July 7-14, 2015 |
7 courses including the NEW FOR578, 2 Nights of NetWars challenges,
@Night talks and two Summit days with James Dunn, Global Investigative
& Forensic Services, Sony Pictures Entertainment to keynote!
http://www.sans.org/u/53y
- --Cyber Defense Summit & Training | Nashville, TN | August 11-18, 2015 |
Chaired by Dr. Eric Cole the two-day summit will teach you how to
implement best practices and proven techniques enabling you to stay on
top of today's threats and ahead of tomorrow's. With 5 courses: SEC511,
SEC401, SEC503, SEC504, SEC566.
http://www.sans.org/u/53D
- --Security Awareness Summit & Training | Philadelphia | August 17-25 |
5 Courses including MGT433 taught by Lance Spitzner. At the summit hear
security awareness officers share inside knowledge on how they took
their awareness programs to the next level and how they measured the
impact.
http://www.sans.org/u/53S
- - --Can't travel? SANS offers LIVE online instruction. Day and Evening courses available!
- -- Multi-week Live SANS training
http://www.sans.org/u/X9
Contact mentor@sans.org
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Plus Dublin, Minneapolis, Delhi, and Milan all in the next 90 days.
For a list of all upcoming events, on-line and live: http://www.sans.org/u/XD
For a list of all upcoming events, on-line and live:
http://www.sans.org/u/XN
1) SANS 2nd Financial Sector Security Survey. Tuesday, June 23 at 1:00
PM EDT with G. Mark Hardy, Patrick Bedwell, James Carder, Rakesh Shah,
and Ann Sun.
http://www.sans.org/info/178522
2) June 25 at 1:00 PM EST: Hear results of the 3rd annual State of
Security in Control Systems Survey.
http://www.sans.org/info/178527
3) Zero-Day Defense: The Power of Actionable Threat Intelligence and
Continuous Endpoint Data Collection Wednesday, June 24 at 3:00 PM EDT
(19:00:00 UTC) with Stephen Newman and Brent Midwood.
http://www.sans.org/info/178532
NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM
Title: OpenSSL Security Advisory and Updates Released
Description: OpenSSL has issued a security advisory for OpenSSL
addressing 5 vulnerabilities. The severity of all 5 of the
vulnerabilities varies from low to moderate and vary from
denial-of-service to double-free and NULL dereference conditions. This
advisory also addresses Logjam, the TLS protocol flaw, by rejecting
handshakes with D-H parameters shorter than 768 bits.
Reference:
http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20150611.txt
Snort SID: Detection pending
Title: LastPass Issues Advisory of Internal Breach
Description: LastPass has issued a security advisory, informing users
that they detected suspicious activity on their network. No encrypted
user vault data was compromised. However, LastPass account email
addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication
hashes were compromised. Users who have reused their LastPass master
password on other sites and/or have a weak master password are urged to
change their master password.
Reference:
https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html/
Title: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered on Samsung Phones
Description: NowSecure has disclosed the discovery of a remote code
execution vulnerability on Samsung phones. This vulnerability can
exploited by an attacker that has a privileged position in a network by
manipulating the update mechanism of the Swift keyboard, a pre-installed
keyboard application on Samsung devices that cannot be removed by the
user.
Reference:
https://www.nowsecure.com/blog/2015/06/16/remote-code-execution-as-system-user-on-samsung-phones/
Title: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Ubuntu Patched
Description: Canonical has released a security advisory for
CVE-2015-1328, a privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability
is due to overlayfs filesystem improperly checking file permissions when
creating new files in the upper filesystem directory which can be
exploited by an unprivileged process. Canonical has released patches
for all currently supported versions.
Reference:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/717
Title: Cisco IOS XR Software Crafted IPv6 Packet Denial of Service
Vulnerability
Description:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150611-iosxr
Reference: Cisco has issued an advisory for CVE-2015-0769, a denial of
service vulnerability within Cisco IOS XR, which is used within Cisco
CRS-3 Carrier Routing System. The vulnerability is due to IOS XR
incorrectly processing of an IPv6 packet carrying valid, but uncommon
IPv6 extension headers. Cisco has released software updates to address
the vulnerability.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
Just-Metadata - Intel Gathering and Analysis of IP Metadata
https://www.christophertruncer.com/just-metadata-intel-gathering-and-analysis-of-ip-metadata/
Oh look - JavaScript Droppers
http://labs.bromium.com/2015/06/12/oh-look-javascript-droppers/
Decrypting Android M adopted storage
http://nelenkov.blogspot.com/2015/06/decrypting-android-m-adopted-storage.html
Microsoft Classifies Ask Toolbar as "Unwanted" Software
https://threatpost.com/microsoft-classifies-ask-toolbar-as-unwanted-software/113299
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-2015-2051
Title: D-Link DIR-645 Input Validation Error Command Injection Vulnerability
Vendor: D-Link
Description: The D-Link DIR-645 Wired/Wireless Router Rev. Ax with
firmware 1.04b12 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary commands via a GetDeviceSettings action to the HNAP interface.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2014-8361
Title: Realtek SDK Miniigd UPnP SOAP Command Execution
Vendor: Realtek
Description: The miniigd SOAP service in Realtek SDK allows remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted NewInternalClient
request.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2015-1701
Title: Microsoft Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Windows before 8
allows local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors, as exploited
in the wild in April 2015.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2015-3043
Title: Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x
before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux
allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service
(memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild
in April 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347,
CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354,
CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and
CVE-2015-3042.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2014-0556
Title: Adobe Flash Player copyPixelsToByteArray Buffer Overflow
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before
13.0.0.244 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.152 on Windows and OS X and
before 11.2.202.406 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.249 on Windows and
OS X and before 15.0.0.252 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.249,
and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.249 allows attackers to
execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different
vulnerability than CVE-2014-0559.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2015-0313
Title: Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before
13.0.0.269 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.305 on Windows and OS X
and before 11.2.202.442 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in
February 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0315,
CVE-2015-0320, and CVE-2015-0322.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
ID: CVE-2015-0235
Title: Exim GHOST (glibc gethostbyname) Buffer Overflow
Vendor: Exim.org
Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in the
__nss_hostname_digits_dots function in glibc 2.2, and other 2.x versions
before 2.18, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary
code via vectors related to the (1) gethostbyname or (2) gethostbyname2
function, aka "GHOST."
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES 2015-06-09 - 2015-06-16:
COMPILED BY TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP
SHA 256: A2492880D31105A93DC9F04DB62A724C268DAA926FA1AA23DCF7E7969C40DA8D
MD5: 1b8e0b6726630e604dcdc6081179d504
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/A2492880D31105A93DC9F04DB62A724C268DAA926FA1AA23DCF7E7969C40DA8D/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: Bank_payment_100615_doc
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.A2492880D3-100.SBX.TG
SHA 256: 80410F74DCA5FFAE069FA4A07C368E749F351FFE385432AB816B64024697A06E
MD5: 8ad691a93df1ae7ee95121f2c344d1c1
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/80410F74DCA5FFAE069FA4A07C368E749F351FFE385432AB816B64024697A06E/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: 43EDE5.doc
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.80410F74DC-100.SBX.TG
SHA 256: 837665851DBF56847DF9C1632EE725E793F75A2018FC3793F825666B81BB06DB
MD5: 2e499cacb5b3a396a3b2a08bd0f4ce1e
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/837665851DBF56847DF9C1632EE725E793F75A2018FC3793F825666B81BB06DB/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: 43EDE5.doc
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.837665851D-100.SBX.TG
SHA 256: 615FB86AB43910CDFC3420510A74D9B7D038CF421F5BA288223B422D6D2AA192
MD5: eee9ea850aa8dce4b76c8b94352aa000
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/615FB86AB43910CDFC3420510A74D9B7D038CF421F5BA288223B422D6D2AA192/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: newVrsn.exe
Claimed Product: Keep-My-Search LTD
Detection Name: W32.Variant:Gen.18he.1201
SHA 256: EE3D776A5DA74C00FAD15A1B50E42C091CEC6A9A89C13428F9277C6007D4007F
MD5: a3730e445244791b37af42763603d87f
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/EE3D776A5DA74C00FAD15A1B50E42C091CEC6A9A89C13428F9277C6007D4007F/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: iKernel.dll
Claimed Product: InstallShield
Detection Name: W32.EE3D776A5D-100.SBX.VIOC
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