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February 26, 2015=============================================================
@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert
Vol. 15, Num. 08
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 2015-02-17 - 2015-02-24
============================================================TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Samba Server Uninitialized Pointer Use Flaw
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Attackers More Accurately and Efficiently Title: Samba Server Uninitialized Pointer Use Flaw Title: Cisco IOS XR Software IPv6 Malformed Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability Title: Lenovo Superfish Certificate Password Cracked Accessing the Windows API Directly (via Meterpreter & Railgun) "My Little Pwnie Box" "RIG Exploit Kit - Diving Deeper into the Infrastructure" "When 'EFBFBD' And Friends Come Knocking: Observations Of Byte Array To String Conversions" Visa asks to track your smartphone to help sniff out credit card fraud 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-2015-1497 ID: CVE-2014-7288 ID: CVE-2015-0310 ID: CVE-2014-10021 ID: CVE-2014-4114 ID: CVE-2014-7169 ID: CVE-2014-6271 SHA 256: 55F173FB7CE33654D379663215DE48BD2F13CA4A607CBE4D90962DE33A4972E6 SHA 256: 1D94C27748E7D0DC5FFD03AE99ACD9C30AAA8A6E91A66BEAB420650F9D6E4977 SHA 256: 6B85F7A8A87270292F546CD1DE615E594A37E518C4D0D35D136A52A0CC934C80 SHA 256: 388641F7CB019D13683384BEE15E0E425A28BF91E4FE84B74D9BFB0A2E2E7088 SHA 256: 2A87C95925B96B84A6A305C6DD009E9A85F1335130E5378BC53AE2F1BC3BDBE7 (c) 2015. All rights reserved. The information contained in this newsletter, including any external links, is provided "AS IS," with no express or implied warranty, for informational purposes only. Please feel free to share this with interested parties via email, but no posting is allowed on web sites. For a free subscription, (and for free posters) or to update a current subscription, visit https://www.sans.org/account
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https://www.sans.org/webcasts/99467NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM
Description: A critical vulnerability has been disclosed, affecting
certain versions of Samba server. CVE-2015-0240 is a vulnerability
within the Netlogon server implementation in Samba where the service
attempts to perform a free operation on an uninitialized stack pointer.
This could potentially allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary
code via maliciously crafted packets.
Reference:
https://securityblog.redhat.com/2015/02/23/samba-vulnerability-cve-2015-0240/
Snort SID: Detection pending
Description: A vulnerability in the parsing of malformed IPv6 packets
in Cisco IOS XR Software for Cisco Network Convergence System 6000 (NCS
6000) and Cisco Carrier Routing System (CRS-X) could allow an
unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of a line card that
is processing traffic and thus, cause a denial of service. Cisco has
released free software updates that address this vulnerability,
CVE-2015-0618.
Reference:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150220-ipv6
Description: The passwords for the Superfish certificates used to
man-in-the-middle SSL/TLS traffic on certain Lenovo laptops have been
cracked. The disclosure of these passwords could allow an attacker to
forge certificates that could appear legitimate to Lenovo laptops with
the Superfish root certificates installed and act as a man-in-the-middle
and eavesdrop on otherwise encrypted communications.
Reference:
http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.htmlINTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
https://osandamalith.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/accessing-the-windows-api-directly/
http://blog.rootshell.be/2015/02/19/my-little-pwnie-box/
https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/RIG-Exploit-Kit-%E2%80%93-Diving-Deeper-into-the-Infrastructure/
http://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2015/2/18/when-efbfbd-and-friends-come-knocking-observations-of-byte-a.html
http://pressreleases.visa.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=215693&p=irol-newsarticlePR&ID=2016148RECENT VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
COMPILED BY THE QUALYS VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM.
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)
Title: Symantec Encryption Management Server - Remote Command Injection
Vendor: Symantec
Description: Symantec PGP Universal Server and Encryption Management
Server before 3.3.2 MP7 allow remote authenticated administrators to
execute arbitrary shell commands via a crafted command line in a
database-backup restore action.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
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)
Title: WordPress WP Symposium 14.11 Shell Upload
Vendor: WP Symposium
Description: Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in UploadHandler.php
in the WP Symposium plugin 14.11 for WordPress allows remote attackers
to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable
extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in
server/php/.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
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)
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)
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 2015-02-17 - 2015-02-24:
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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
MD5: eb843f08b06cc5bb0e8bbe9f8aaa0ba6
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/1D94C27748E7D0DC5FFD03AE99ACD9C30AAA8A6E91A66BEAB420650F9D6E4977/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: 3uhYJZ81y66VEXc.exe
Detection Name: W32.Variant:Gen.17nv.1201
MD5: 7a9bf84ae6f5793548177fb6998ce922
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/6B85F7A8A87270292F546CD1DE615E594A37E518C4D0D35D136A52A0CC934C80/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: OCSetupHlp.dll
Claimed Product: OpenCandy
Detection Name: W32.Trojan.17hd.1201
MD5: 0c933868b86589bcf344e115e25a23df
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/388641F7CB019D13683384BEE15E0E425A28BF91E4FE84B74D9BFB0A2E2E7088/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: avayvxvaxc.exe
Detection Name: W32.388641F7CB-100.SBX.VIOC
MD5: c387a73359542aab558445aed3d951fb
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/2A87C95925B96B84A6A305C6DD009E9A85F1335130E5378BC53AE2F1BC3BDBE7/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: sysad.exe
Detection Name: W32.2A87C95925-100.SBX.VIOC
