SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #405 ----------------------------------------
This issue is sponsored by Black Hat USA: Attend Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting. www.blackhat.com SECURITY BLOGS SecurityFocus has selected a few syndicated sources that stand out as conveying topics of interest for our community. We are proud to offer content from Matasano at this time and will be adding more in the coming weeks. http://www.securityfocus.com/blogs ------------------------------------------------------------------ I. FRONT AND CENTER 1.An Astonishing Collaboration 2.Bad-Code Blues II. MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY 1. F-PROT Antivirus Archive Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability 2. Citrix Presentation Server 'icabar.exe' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 3. BlazeVideo HDTV Player PLF File Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 4. AVG Anti-Virus UPX File Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability 5. Cygwin 'setup.exe' Installation and Update Process Mirror Authenticity Verification Vulnerability 6. Moodle 'etitle' Parameter HTML Injection Vulnerability 7. PowerDVD '.m3u' and '.pls' File Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities III. MICROSOFT FOCUS LIST SUMMARY IV. UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS V. SPONSOR INFORMATION I. FRONT AND CENTER --------------------- 1.An Astonishing Collaboration By Dan Kaminsky Wow. It's out. It's finally, finally out. Sweet! http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/477 2.Bad-Code Blues By Don Parker The current state of secure software development by corporations both large and small is a mess. We are still cursed with half-baked software, and as a result, a never ending stream of vulnerabilities. Secure coding practices and active quality assurance (QA) efforts are now more mainstream, but that still hasn.t made much of a dent. http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/476 II. MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY ------------------------------------ 1. F-PROT Antivirus Archive Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability BugTraq ID: 30461 Remote: Yes Date Published: 2008-07-31 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30461 Summary: F-PROT Antivirus is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to deny service to legitimate users of the application. F-PROT Antivirus 6.2.1.4252 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 2. Citrix Presentation Server 'icabar.exe' Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BugTraq ID: 30446 Remote: No Date Published: 2008-07-30 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30446 Summary: Citrix Presentation Server (formerly Citrix MetaFrame Server) is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability caused by a flaw in how 'icabar.exe' is invoked via a 'Run' registry key. Attackers can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code with administrator privileges. Successful exploits will completely compromise affected computers. The following products are vulnerable when running on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003: Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 and prior Citrix MetaFrame XP 1.0 and prior 3. BlazeVideo HDTV Player PLF File Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BugTraq ID: 30442 Remote: Yes Date Published: 2008-07-30 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30442 Summary: BlazeVideo HDTV Player is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because the application fails to handle malformed playlist files. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application or to trigger a denial-of-service condition. BlazeVideo HDTV Player 3.5 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. 4. AVG Anti-Virus UPX File Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability BugTraq ID: 30417 Remote: Yes Date Published: 2008-07-28 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30417 Summary: AVG Anti-Virus is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to crash AVG Anti-Virus and deny service to legitimate users of the application. Versions prior to AVG Anti-Virus 8.0.156 are vulnerable. 5. Cygwin 'setup.exe' Installation and Update Process Mirror Authenticity Verification Vulnerability BugTraq ID: 30375 Remote: Yes Date Published: 2008-07-25 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30375 Summary: Cygwin 'setup.exe' is prone to a vulnerability caused by inadequate verification of mirror authenticity. Attackers who can impersonate a Cygwin download mirror (by exploiting a DNS cache-poisoning, session-hijacking, or some other vulnerability) could perform a man-in-the-middle attack and leverage this issue to cause the application to retrieve and install malicious packages. Versions prior to Cygwin 'setup.exe' 2.573.2.3 are vulnerable. 6. Moodle 'etitle' Parameter HTML Injection Vulnerability BugTraq ID: 30348 Remote: Yes Date Published: 2008-07-22 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30348 Summary: Moodle is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in dynamically generated content. Attacker-supplied HTML and script code would run in the context of the affected browser, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or to control how the site is rendered to the user. Other attacks are also possible. 7. PowerDVD '.m3u' and '.pls' File Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities BugTraq ID: 30341 Remote: Yes Date Published: 2008-07-22 Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30341 Summary: PowerDVD is prone to multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because it fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input. Successfully exploiting these issues may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed exploit attempts will cause denial-of-service conditions. PowerDVD 8.0 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected. III. MICROSOFT FOCUS LIST SUMMARY --------------------------------- IV. UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------------- To unsubscribe send an e-mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the subscribed address. The contents of the subject or message body do not matter. You will receive a confirmation request message to which you will have to answer. Alternatively you can also visit http://www.securityfocus.com/newsletters and unsubscribe via the website. If your email address has changed email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask to be manually removed. V. SPONSOR INFORMATION ------------------------ This issue is sponsored by Black Hat USA: Attend Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting. www.blackhat.com
