26Sep2014 (UTC +8) I presume most of you have heard the news about Shellshock already. Here are more actionable information about the issue.
Some are saying it's as big as a problem as Heartbleed, but my gut feeling disagrees. I maybe wrong though. ******************** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SANS FLASH REPORT: The Shellshock vulnerability: What you should do now. September 25, 2014 Shellshock merits this FLASH report because it is so widespread and so easy to exploit on systems like your firewalls and web servers and other similarly important servers running LINUX. Johannes Ullrich, Director of SANS Internet Storm Center just updated a brief webcast to provide authoritative answers to the five questions we are being asked: 1. How important is Shellshock (which specific types of systems can actually be exploited now)? 2. What is the primary way that this vulnerability is being exploited? 3. What went wrong? Where did the vulnerability come from? 4. How can you find out which of your systems are vulnerable? and How easy it is for attackers to find the vulnerable systems on your network? 5. How can you protect yourself? You can see the slides and listen to his briefing at: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Webcast+Briefing+Bash+Code+Injection+Vulnerability/18709 Storm Center has also posted a FAQ which is being updated as new data is found: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Update+on+CVE-2014-6271+Vulnerability+in+bash+shellshock+/18707 Alan Paller, Director of Research, SANS institute [...] ******************** Drexx Laggui -- CISA, CISSP, CFE Associate, ISO27001 LA, CCSI, CSA http://www.laggui.com ( Manila & California ) Computer forensics; Penetration testing; QMS & ISMS developers; K-Transfer PGP fingerprint = 0117 15C5 F3B1 6564 59EA 6013 1308 9A66 41A2 3F9B _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
