[AusNOG] AusCERT Week in Review - Week Ending 28/04/2006

matthew at auscert.org.au matthew at auscert.org.au
Fri Apr 28 17:23:46 EST 2006


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Hi all,

The following is a summary of what we have pushed to our subscribers for
the past week.

In other news the past two days has seen another trojan-spam run ala:

  http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=6195

We are particulary interested in any feedback about as the secondary
infection process involves a Hacker Defender rootkit that was being
distributed via:

  nyneznay. com/cgi-bin/dloader.cgi 

I hope this is of some use.  Feedback appreciated.

Best regards,

AusCERT Week in Review
28 April 2006


Papers, Articles and other documents:
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Alerts, Advisories and Updates:
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Title: AL-2006.0030 -- [Mac][OSX] -- Multiple unpatched Mac OS X
       vulnerabilities in Safari, BOMArchiveHelper and graphics handling
       routines 
Date:  28 April 2006
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6250

Title: AL-2006.0029 -- [Win] -- Vulnerability in the handling of HTML OBJECT
       tags by several Microsoft products 
Date:  27 April 2006
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6240

Title: AU-2006.0012 -- AusCERT Update - [Win] - Microsoft Security Bulletin
       MS06-015 Re-Release 
Date:  27 April 2006
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6239


External Security Bulletins:
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Title: ESB-2005.0940 -- [HP-UX] -- SSRT051074 Revised - HP-UX Running xterm
       Local Unauthorized Access 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    HP-UX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/5774

Title: ESB-2006.0306 -- [NetBSD] -- An audio subsystem race condition may
       crash the system 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    Other BSD Variants 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6249

Title: ESB-2006.0305 -- Scripts in eBay Postings May Enable Phishing Attacks 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    HP Tru64 UNIX, Solaris, IRIX, OpenBSD, Other BSD Variants, FreeBSD,
       HP-UX, Debian GNU/Linux, Red Hat Linux, AIX, Novell Netware, Windows
       2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows
       98/98SE, Mac OS X, Windows CE 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6248

Title: ESB-2006.0304 -- [Win][Linux][HP-UX][Solaris] -- HP Oracle for OpenView
       (OfO) Critical Patch Update April 2006 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Debian GNU/Linux, Windows 2000, Other Linux
       Variants, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT 4, HP-UX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6247

Title: ESB-2006.0303 -- [Debian] -- New Mozilla packages fix several
       vulnerabilities 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6246

Title: ESB-2006.0302 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] -- New OpenVPN packages fix
       arbitrary code execution 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    Solaris, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants, Windows 2003, OpenBSD,
       Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Windows XP, Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6245

Title: ESB-2006.0301 -- [Win][Linux][HP-UX][Solaris][AIX] -- Sun Java System
       Directory Server: Denial of Service May Occur Due to Large Memory
       Allocation for Specific LDAP Requests 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    Solaris, Debian GNU/Linux, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Other Linux
       Variants, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, AIX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6244

Title: ESB-2006.0300 -- [Win] -- Juniper Networks SSL-VPN Client Buffer
       Overflow 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT 4 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6243

Title: ESB-2006.0299 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] -- New abcmidi packages fix
       arbitrary code execution 
Date:  28 April 2006
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/6242

Title: ESB-2006.0298 -- [Debian] -- New Cyrus SASL packages fix denial of
       service 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6241

Title: ESB-2006.0297 -- [Debian] -- New Mozilla Firefox packages fix several
       vulnerabilities 
Date:  27 April 2006
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6238

Title: ESB-2006.0296 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][RedHat] -- Moderate: php security
       update 
Date:  26 April 2006
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 ME 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6237

Title: ESB-2006.0295 -- [UNIX/Linux][RedHat] -- Moderate: ipsec-tools security
       update 
Date:  26 April 2006
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants, IRIX,
       OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, AIX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6236

Title: ESB-2006.0294 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] -- New abc2ps packages fix
       arbitrary code execution 
Date:  26 April 2006
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants, IRIX,
       OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, AIX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6235

Title: ESB-2006.0293 -- [Solaris] -- Privileged Applications Linked to
       libpkcs11(3LIB) Which Obtain Password Entries Using getpwnam(3C) May
       Fail or Possibly Grant Elevated Privileges to Local Users 
Date:  26 April 2006
OS:    Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6234

Title: ESB-2006.0292 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian] -- New gdm packages fix local
       root exploit 
Date:  26 April 2006
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants, IRIX,
       OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, AIX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6233

Title: ESB-2006.0291 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux][Debian][Mac] -- New blender packages
       fix several vulnerabilities 
Date:  26 April 2006
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 ME 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6232

Title: ESB-2006.0290 -- [UNIX/Linux] -- Cyrus-SASL DIGEST-MD5
       Pre-Authentication Denial of Service 
Date:  24 April 2006
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/6231

Title: ESB-2006.0289 -- [SCO] -- X Server Arbitrary Code Execution
       Vulnerability 
Date:  24 April 2006
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6230

Title: ESB-2006.0288 -- [SCO] -- CUPS Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Date:  24 April 2006
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6229

Title: ESB-2006.0287 -- [SCO] -- GhostScript Insecure Temporary File Creation
       Vulnerability 
Date:  24 April 2006
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6228

Title: ESB-2006.0286 -- [Linux][Debian][FreeBSD] -- New zgv and xzgv packages
       fix arbitrary code execution 
Date:  24 April 2006
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6227

Title: ESB-2006.0285 -- [RedHat] -- Critical: thunderbird security update 
Date:  24 April 2006
OS:    Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6226

Title: ESB-2006.0261 -- [HP-UX] -- HP-UX running Sendmail, Remote Execution of
       Arbitrary Code 
Date:  28 April 2006
OS:    HP-UX 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/6193

Title: ESB-2006.0078 -- [Cisco] -- Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator Vulnerable to
       Crafted HTTP Attack 
Date:  27 April 2006
OS:    Cisco Products 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/5970


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