[AusNOG] AusCERT Week in Review - Week Ending 20/07/2007 (fwd)

Matthew Aburn maburn at auscert.org.au
Fri Jul 20 17:39:14 EST 2007


AusCERT Week in Review
20 July 2007


AusCERT in the Media:
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Sophos names and shames the top spam relaying countries
Computerworld Australia, Australia 
Jul 18, 2007
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1529124582;fp;2;fpid;1

UPDATE - Australian banks not hot on .bank
Webwereld, Netherlands 
Jul 13, 2007
http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/47213/update---australian-banks-not-hot-on--bank-domain.html

Java flaw poses widespread security threat
ZDNet UK, UK 
Jul 13, 2007
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39288009,00.htm


Papers, Articles and other documents:
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Alerts, Advisories and Updates:
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Title: AU-2007.0018 -- AusCERT Update - [Win] - Multiple vendors may be
       affected by Windows URI handler vulnerability 
Date:  20 July 2007
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7879

Title: AL-2007.0087 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Oracle Critical Patch Update - 45
       vulnerabilities in Oracle and Peoplesoft products 
Date:  19 July 2007
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7872

Title: AL-2007.0086 -- [Win] -- Computer Associates Alert Notification Server
       Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities 
Date:  18 July 2007
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7861

Title: AA-2007.0059 -- [UNIX/Linux] -- Asterisk vulnerabilities allow denial
       of service or remote compromise 
Date:  18 July 2007
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7863

Title: AL-2007.0085 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][Mac] -- Multiple vulnerabilities in
       Symantec products 
Date:  17 July 2007
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7851

Title: AA-2007.0058 -- [Win][Netware][UNIX/Linux] -- Novell eDirectory 8.7.3
       SP9 FTF1 release fixes several vulnerabilities 
Date:  16 July 2007
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7853

Title: AA-2007.0057 -- [Linux] -- Novell KDC - three Kerberos vulnerabilities
       allow remote compromise 
Date:  16 July 2007
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7852


External Security Bulletins:
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Title: ESB-2007.0548 -- [Win] -- Ipswitch IMail Server 2006 IMAP Search
       Command Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 
Date:  20 July 2007
OS:    Windows 2003, Windows 2000 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7878

Title: ESB-2007.0547 -- [Win] -- Microsoft DirectX RLE Compressed Targa Image
       File Heap Overflow 
Date:  20 July 2007
OS:    Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows ME,
       Windows XP, Windows 98/98SE 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7877

Title: ESB-2007.0546 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Multiple RSA products affected by
       Progress Server heap overflow vulnerability 
Date:  20 July 2007
OS:    HP Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, Debian GNU/Linux, Other Linux
       Variants, Red Hat Linux, AIX, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4,
       Windows XP 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7876

Title: ESB-2007.0545 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Opera Software Opera Web Browser
       BitTorrent Dangling Pointer Vulnerability 
Date:  20 July 2007
OS:    Solaris, OpenBSD, Other BSD Variants, FreeBSD, Debian GNU/Linux, Other
       Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows
       2000, Windows NT 4, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 98/98SE, Mac OS X 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7875

Title: ESB-2007.0544 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Vulnerability in Java Runtime
       Environment May Allow an Untrusted Applet to Circumvent Network Access
       Restrictions 
Date:  20 July 2007
OS:    Solaris, FreeBSD, Debian GNU/Linux, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat
       Linux, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows
       XP, Windows 98/98SE, Mac OS X 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7874

Title: ESB-2007.0543 -- [Cisco] -- Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco
       Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) Software 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    Cisco Products 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7873

Title: ESB-2007.0542 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][RedHat] -- Critical: seamonkey
       security update 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Windows 98/98SE, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD
       Variants, IRIX, Windows 2003, OpenBSD, Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Other
       Linux Variants, Windows XP, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT 4, Mac OS X,
       HP-UX, AIX, Windows Vista, Windows ME 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7871

Title: ESB-2007.0541 -- [RedHat] -- Moderate: thunderbird security update 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7870

Title: ESB-2007.0540 -- [RedHat] -- Critical: firefox security update 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7869

Title: ESB-2007.0539 -- [Debian] -- New gimp packages fix arbitrary code
       execution 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7868

Title: ESB-2007.0538 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] -- New curl and libcurl packages
       fix certificate handling 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants, IRIX,
       OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, HP-UX,
       AIX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7867

Title: ESB-2007.0537 -- [Win] -- Trillian Instant Messenger client fails to
       properly handle malformed URIs 
Date:  20 July 2007
OS:    Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows ME,
       Windows XP, Windows 98/98SE 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7862

Title: ESB-2007.0536 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Mozilla Updates for Multiple
       Vulnerabilities in Firefox and Thunderbird 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    HP Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, IRIX, OpenBSD, Other BSD Variants, FreeBSD,
       HP-UX, Debian GNU/Linux, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, AIX,
       Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows ME,
       Windows XP, Windows 98/98SE, Mac OS X 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7866

Title: ESB-2007.0535 -- [Win][Linux] -- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
       and Presence Server Unauthorized Access Vulnerabilities 
Date:  18 July 2007
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Other Linux Variants,
       Windows XP, Red Hat Linux, Windows Vista 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7860

Title: ESB-2007.0534 -- [Win] -- Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus local privilege
       exploit 
Date:  18 July 2007
OS:    Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT 4, Windows Vista 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7859

Title: ESB-2007.0533 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][Solaris][AIX][OSX] -- IBM Tivoli
       Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment TFTP Blocksize DoS Vulnerability
Date:  18 July 2007
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Windows 98/98SE, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD
       Variants, IRIX, Windows 2003, OpenBSD, Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Other
       Linux Variants, Windows XP, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT 4, Mac OS X,
       HP-UX, AIX, Windows Vista, Windows ME 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7858

Title: ESB-2007.0532 -- [RedHat] -- Moderate: tomcat security update 
Date:  18 July 2007
OS:    Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7857

Title: ESB-2007.0531 -- [Win] -- Multiple vulnerabilities in McAfee software 
Date:  17 July 2007
OS:    Windows 98/98SE, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT 4,
       Windows Vista, Windows ME 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7856

Title: ESB-2007.0530 -- [RedHat] -- HP ServiceGuard for Linux, Local
       Unauthorized Access, Increase in Privilege 
Date:  17 July 2007
OS:    Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7855

Title: ESB-2007.0529 -- [OpenBSD] -- Erratum 009: heap overflow vulnerability
       in file(1) 
Date:  16 July 2007
OS:    OpenBSD 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7854

Title: ESB-2007.0528 -- [RedHat] -- Critical: flash-plugin security update 
Date:  13 July 2007
OS:    Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7850

Title: ESB-2007.0527 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- MySQL Community Server 5.0.45
       released 
Date:  18 July 2007
OS:    Windows Vista, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, Windows XP, Other
       Linux Variants, FreeBSD, Windows 2000, OpenBSD, Windows 2003, IRIX,
       Other BSD Variants, Debian GNU/Linux, HP Tru64 UNIX, Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7849

Title: ESB-2007.0526 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Moderate: perl-Net-DNS security
       update 
Date:  13 July 2007
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Windows 98/98SE, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD
       Variants, IRIX, Windows 2003, OpenBSD, Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Other
       Linux Variants, Windows XP, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT 4, Mac OS X,
       HP-UX, AIX, Windows Vista, Windows ME 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7848

Title: ESB-2007.0525 -- [RedHat] -- Moderate: xorg-x11-xfs security update 
Date:  13 July 2007
OS:    Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7847

Title: ESB-2007.0524 -- [UNIX/Linux][FreeBSD] -- Errors handling corrupt tar
       files in libarchive(3) 
Date:  13 July 2007
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants, IRIX,
       OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, HP-UX,
       AIX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7846

Title: ESB-2007.0522 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Security Vulnerability in Java
       Web Start URL Parsing Code May Allow Untrusted Applications to Elevate
       Privileges 
Date:  13 July 2007
OS:    Windows Vista, AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Windows XP, Other Linux
       Variants, FreeBSD, Windows 2000, OpenBSD, Windows 2003, IRIX, Other BSD
       Variants, Debian GNU/Linux, HP Tru64 UNIX, Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7844

Title: ESB-2007.0520 -- [Win] -- Symantec AntiVirus symtdi.sys Local Privilege
       Escalation Vulnerability 
Date:  17 July 2007
OS:    Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7842

Title: ESB-2007.0512 -- [Win][Linux] -- Cisco Unified Communications Manager
       Overflow Vulnerabilities 
Date:  17 July 2007
OS:    Windows ME, Windows Vista, Windows NT 4, Red Hat Linux, Cisco Products,
       Windows XP, Other Linux Variants, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Debian
       GNU/Linux, Windows 98/98SE 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7834

Title: ESB-2007.0504 -- [Win] -- MS07-036 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel
       Could Allow Remote Code Execution 
Date:  17 July 2007
OS:    Mac OS X, Windows NT 4, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows
       98/98SE, Windows Vista, Windows ME 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7824

Title: ESB-2007.0503 -- [AIX] -- A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in
       libodm. 
Date:  17 July 2007
OS:    AIX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7823

Title: ESB-2007.0480 -- [Solaris] -- Security Vulnerability in the Kerberos
       Administration Daemon (kadmind(1M)) May Lead to Arbitrary Code
       Execution 
Date:  20 July 2007
OS:    Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7789

Title: ESB-2007.0468 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][RedHat] -- Moderate: apache security
       update 
Date:  16 July 2007
OS:    Windows Vista, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Windows NT 4, Red Hat Linux,
       Windows XP, Other Linux Variants, FreeBSD, Windows 2000, OpenBSD,
       Windows 2003, IRIX, Other BSD Variants, Debian GNU/Linux, HP Tru64
       UNIX, Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7776

Title: ESB-2007.0400 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] -- New freetype packages fix
       integer overflow 
Date:  19 July 2007
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7694

Title: ESB-2007.0270 -- [Solaris] -- Security Vulnerability in libX11 for
       Solaris 
Date:  13 July 2007
OS:    Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7523

Title: ESB-2007.0207 -- [Win][Linux][HP-UX][Solaris] -- Sun advisory for
       security vulnerabilities in the NSS May Affect SSL Clients and SSL
       Servers 
Date:  16 July 2007
OS:    HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Windows XP, Other Linux Variants, Windows 2000,
       Windows 2003, Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/7437



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