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April 28, 2016
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@RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert

Vol. 16, Num. 17

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/at-risk

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CONTENTS:

NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES 2016-04-19 - 2016-04-26
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TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: Oracle Releases Quarterly Critical Patch Update for Various Products, Including Java

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NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

Title: Oracle Releases Quarterly Critical Patch Update for Various Products, Including Java
Description: Oracle has released their quarterly set of security bulletins for vulnerabilities that have been identified in various Oracle products. This month's release addresses 136 security flaws for products such as Oracle Database Server, Fusion Middleware, Java, MySQL, Sun Products, and more. Java had 9 security flaws patched with all of them "remotely exploitable without authentication."
Reference:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2016v3-2985753.html
Snort SID: 37505-37506. Additional detection pending release of vulnerability information

Title: NTP Project Releases Update for NTPd, Addressing Various Security Issues
Description: The NTP Project has released a new version of NTPd to address various reported security issues. This release addresses 11 low- and medium-severity security vulnerabilities. Two of the 11 flaws are listed as "Mitigation only" with forthcoming patches that fully address the issue in a later release. In addition, two other flaws that were fixed in prior releases (CVE-2015-7974, CVE-2015-7704/CVE-2015-7705) of NTPd have been improved.
Reference:
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#Recent_Vulnerabilities
Snort SID: 36536, 37841-37843. Additional rules pending release of vulnerability information

Title: Cisco Releases Five Advisories for Various Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Description: Cisco has released five advisories for various denial of service vulnerabilities that have been identified in various products. Four of the five advisories are rated as high-impact while the fifth, CVE-2016-1363, is rated critical. CVE-2016-1363 manifests due to improperly handling HTTP URL redirects and could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger the flaw "by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device." This crafted request could cause "a buffer overflow condition" to occur and result in a DoS condition or arbitrary code execution. Cisco has released updated software that addresses this vulnerability as well as the others.
Reference:
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/publicationListing
Snort SID: 38590-38591, 36558

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INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY

Threat Spotlight: Exploit Kit Goes International Hits 150+ Countries
http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/04/nuclear-exposed.html

Verizon Releases 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/verizon-insights-lab/dbir/2016/

Bypass Application Whitelisting Script Protections - Regsvr32.exe & COM Scriptlets (.sct files)
http://subt0x10.blogspot.com/2016/04/bypass-application-whitelisting-script.html

The road to hell is paved with SAML Assertions - Office 365 authentication bypass disclosure and write-up
http://www.economyofmechanism.com/office365-authbypass.html

Breaking Steam Client Cryptography
https://steamdb.info/blog/breaking-steam-client-cryptography/

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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-2016-1019
Title: Adobe Flash Player Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2016-1010
Title: Adobe Flash Player Integer Overflow Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe AIR SDK before 21.0.0.176, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 21.0.0.176 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0963 and CVE-2016-0993.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2016-1524
Title: NETGEAR Network Management System 300 Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability
Vendor: Netgear
Description: Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in NETGEAR Management System NMS300 1.5.0.11 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code by using (1) fileUpload.do or (2) lib-1.0/external/flash/fileUpload.do to upload a JSP file, and then accessing it via a direct request for a /null URI.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2015-7755
Title: Juniper ScreenOS Multiple Security Issues
Vendor: Juniper
Description: Juniper ScreenOS 6.2.0r15 through 6.2.0r18, 6.3.0r12 before 6.3.0r12b, 6.3.0r13 before 6.3.0r13b, 6.3.0r14 before 6.3.0r14b, 6.3.0r15 before 6.3.0r15b, 6.3.0r16 before 6.3.0r16b, 6.3.0r17 before 6.3.0r17b, 6.3.0r18 before 6.3.0r18b, 6.3.0r19 before 6.3.0r19b, and 6.3.0r20 before 6.3.0r21 allows remote attackers to obtain administrative access by entering an unspecified password during a (1) SSH or (2) TELNET session.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10.0 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2015-6132
Title: Microsoft Windows Library Loading Input Validation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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, Windows RT Gold and 8.1, and Windows 10 Gold and 1511 mishandle library loading, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka "Windows Library Loading Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2015-7645
Title: Adobe Flash Player Code Execution Vulnerability (APSB15-27)
Vendor: Adobe
Description: Adobe Flash Player 18.x through 18.0.0.252 and 19.x through 19.0.0.207 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.535 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SWF file, as exploited in the wild in October 2015.
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

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MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES 2016-04-19 - 2016-04-26:
COMPILED BY TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

SHA 256: E09DF5361B870DC27568F78014BCD3AE25214A3E4F59931D96E2E0713474E825
MD5: ae8811f5dedd877ba325e7d843647716
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/E09DF5361B870DC27568F78014BCD3AE25214A3E4F59931D96E2E0713474E825/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: Setup_FileViewPro_2016.exe
Claimed Product: File Viewer Pro
Detection Name: W32.Trojan.NM

SHA 256: 96B4D770C86EA397D56BEC1C6A015C1559ECBC8E4A436CD48CF2BC32E258A977
MD5: 29d141bf592697122d87e16c1db673a5
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/96B4D770C86EA397D56BEC1C6A015C1559ECBC8E4A436CD48CF2BC32E258A977/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: CuteWriter.exe
Claimed Product: CutePDF Writer
Detection Name: W32.96B4D770C8-100.SBX.VIOC

SHA 256: F5D3F9B1A9C4B59DBCF34782A3B5AB3A89EB47EE3195364E54CC2845502E020E
MD5: de04a6ee625c7b8dd09ce22cd5cfb2e9
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/F5D3F9B1A9C4B59DBCF34782A3B5AB3A89EB47EE3195364E54CC2845502E020E/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: ApplicationManager
Claimed Product: (none)
Detection Name: OSX.Variant:SpigotD.19d2.1201

SHA 256: 83CEC41170390E5E6D49ED7BF4FA76DDFB581C9E39D9EFE7ED9382957DE152DD
MD5: c913d292a9a907799526695c9ad3bfac
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/83CEC41170390E5E6D49ED7BF4FA76DDFB581C9E39D9EFE7ED9382957DE152DD/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: helperamc
Claimed Product: (none)
Detection Name: OSX.83CEC41170.agent.tht.Talos

SHA 256: 4205D56A46820C3C340854CE67A31F32EED8D6A7BBDD2C134BE4DA2BB6A77F76
MD5: 781a020ee3641da19fe4eba0fbab1444
VirusTotal:
https://www.virustotal.com/file/4205D56A46820C3C340854CE67A31F32EED8D6A7BBDD2C134BE4DA2BB6A77F76/analysis/#additional-info
Typical Filename: nwngb.exe
Claimed Product: (none)
Detection Name: Trojan:Sality-tpd

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