[AusNOG] AusCERT Week in Review - Week Ending 22/08/2008 (AUSCERT#20073F686)

Matthew Braid mdb at auscert.org.au
Fri Aug 22 15:07:32 EST 2008


AusCERT Week in Review
22 August 2008

AusCERT in the Media:
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Papers, Articles and other documents:
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Web Log Entries:
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Title: Somebody hit the internet 'snooze' button 
Date:  22 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9748

Title: Fedora infrastructure issue 
Date:  20 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9739

Alerts, Advisories and Updates:
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Title: AA-2008.0177 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Multiple vulnerabilities in Opera 
Date:  21 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9740

Title: AA-2008.0176 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Authorisation bypass vulnerability
       in IBM Websphere Portal 
Date:  20 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9738

Title: AA-2008.0175 -- [UNIX/Linux][Appliance] -- Vulerability in multiple
       Avaya products 
Date:  19 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9735

Title: AA-2008.0169 -- [Win] -- Webex Meeting Manager ActiveX control
       vulnerability 
Date:  18 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9689

Title: AA-2008.0172 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- New release of Joomla! to correct
       a possible administrator compromise vulnerability 
Date:  18 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9727

Title: AA-2008.0173 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- A vulnerability in GnuTLS may
       allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service 
Date:  18 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9732

Title: AA-2008.0174 -- [UNIX/Linux] -- xine-lib 1.1.15 released correcting
       several vulnerabilities 
Date:  18 August 2008
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9733

External Security Bulletins:
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Title: ESB-2008.0821 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- PowerDNS Recursor: DNS Cache
       Poisoning 
Date:  22 August 2008
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants,
       IRIX, Windows 2003, OpenBSD, Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Other Linux
       Variants, Windows XP, Server 2008, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, HP-UX, AIX,
       Windows Vista 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9747

Title: ESB-2008.0820 -- [UNIX/Linux] -- Format string vulnerability in yelp 
Date:  22 August 2008
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants,
       IRIX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, AIX
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9746

Title: ESB-2008.0819 -- [NetBSD] -- NetBSD malformed ICMPv6 MLD query crash 
Date:  22 August 2008
OS:    Other BSD Variants 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9745

Title: ESB-2008.0818 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- vBulletin Cross Site Scripting
       Vulnerability 
Date:  22 August 2008
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants,
       IRIX, Windows 2003, OpenBSD, Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Other Linux
       Variants, Windows XP, Server 2008, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS X, HP-UX, AIX,
       Windows Vista 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9744

Title: ESB-2008.0817 -- [Linux][Debian] -- New Linux 2.6.18 packages fix
       several vulnerabilities 
Date:  22 August 2008
OS:    Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, Other Linux Variants, Red Hat Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9743

Title: ESB-2008.0816 -- [UNIX/Linux][RedHat] -- Moderate: libxml2 security
       update 
Date:  22 August 2008
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Ubuntu, 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/9742

Title: ESB-2008.0815 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Apache Tomcat UTF8 Directory
       Traversal Vulnerability 
Date:  21 August 2008
OS:    Solaris, HP Tru64 UNIX, Ubuntu, Debian GNU/Linux, Other BSD Variants,
       IRIX, Windows 2003, OpenBSD, Windows 2000, FreeBSD, Other Linux
       Variants, Windows XP, Server 2008, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Windows
       Vista 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9741

Title: ESB-2008.0814 -- [Solaris] -- Denial of Service Vulnerability in NFSv4
       Client Kernel Module 
Date:  20 August 2008
OS:    Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9737

Title: ESB-2008.0813 -- [Win][Appliance] -- Storage Management Appliance
       (SMA), Microsoft Patch Applicability MS08-041 to MS08-051 
Date:  20 August 2008
OS:    Windows 2000 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9736

Title: ESB-2008.0812 -- [Debian] -- New postfix packages fix privilege
       escalation 
Date:  20 August 2008
OS:    Debian GNU/Linux 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9734

Title: ESB-2008.0808 -- [Win][Linux][HP-UX][Solaris] -- A Security
       Vulnerability in the ftp Subsystem of Sun Java System Web Proxy Server
       4.0 May Lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) 
Date:  18 August 2008
OS:    Windows Vista, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Server 2008, Windows XP, Other
       Linux Variants, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu,
       Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9725

Title: ESB-2008.0789 -- [Win][UNIX/Linux] -- Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby 
Date:  18 August 2008
OS:    Windows Vista, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux, Server 2008,
       Windows XP, Other Linux Variants, FreeBSD, Windows 2000, OpenBSD,
       Windows 2003, IRIX, Other BSD Variants, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, HP
       Tru64 UNIX, Solaris 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9698

Title: ESB-2008.0664 -- [Win][Linux] -- HP System Management Homepage (SMH)
       for Linux and Windows, Remote Cross Site Scripting (XSS) 
Date:  19 August 2008
OS:    Windows Vista, Red Hat Linux, Server 2008, Windows XP, Other Linux
       Variants, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu 
URL:   http://www.auscert.org.au/9529

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