Each quarter I get a summary of CERT activity. I thought that some of you may want a look at it.
Here ya go....
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
CERT Summary CS-2003-02
June 3, 2003
Each quarter, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) issues the CERT
Summary to draw attention to the types of attacks reported to our
incident response team, as well as other noteworthy incident and
vulnerability information. The summary includes pointers to sources of
information for dealing with the problems.
Since the last regularly scheduled CERT summary, issued in March 2003
(CS-2003-01), we have seen an integer overflow vulnerability within
Sun's XDR Library, multiple vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes and Domino
Server, a buffer overflow vulnerability in Sendmail, and multiple
vulnerabilities within Snort's preprocessors.
For more current information on activity being reported to the
CERT/CC, please visit the CERT/CC Current Activity page. The Current
Activity page is a regularly updated summary of the most frequent,
high-impact types of security incidents and vulnerabilities being
reported to the CERT/CC. The information on the Current Activity page
is reviewed and updated as reporting trends change.
1. Integer overflow in Sun RPC XDR library routines
An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xdrmem_getbytes()
function distributed as part of the Sun Microsystems XDR library.
This overflow may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary
code on the victim machine.
2. Multiple Vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes and Domino
Multiple vulnerabilities had been reported to affect Lotus Notes
clients and Domino servers. Due to the confusion surrounding these
vulnerabilities we released an advisory to clairfy the details of
the vulnerabilities, the versions affected, and the patches that
resolve these issues.
Vulnerability Note VU#355169: Lotus Domino Web Server
vulnerable to denial of service via incomplete POST
request http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/355169
Vulnerability Note VU#772817: Lotus Domino Web Server
vulnerable to buffer overflow via non-existent
"h_SetReturnURL" parameter with an overly long "Host
Header" field http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772817
Vulnerability Note VU#433489: Lotus Domino Server
susceptible to a pre-authentication buffer overflow
during Notes http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433489
Vulnerability Note VU#583184: Lotus Domino R5 Server
Family contains multiple vulnerabilities in LDAP handling
code http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/583184
3. Buffer Overflow in Sendmail
There is a remotely exploitable vulnerability in sendmail that
could allow an attacker to gain control of a vulnerable sendmail
server.
Due to a variable type conversion problem, sendmail may not
adequately check the length of email address tokens. A specially
crafted email message could trigger a stack overflow.
4. Multiple Vulnerabilities in Snort Preprocessors
There are two vulnerabilities in the Snort Intrusion Detection
System, each in a separate preprocessor module. Both
vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user running Snort, typically root
Email: cert@cert.org
Phone: +1 412-268-7090 (24-hour hotline)
Fax: +1 412-268-6989
Postal address:
CERT Coordination Center
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
U.S.A.
CERT/CC personnel answer the hotline 08:00-17:00 EST(GMT-5) /
EDT(GMT-4) Monday through Friday; they are on call for emergencies
during other hours, on U.S. holidays, and on weekends.
Using encryption
We strongly urge you to encrypt sensitive information sent by email.
Our public PGP key is available from http://www.cert.org/CERT_PGP.key
If you prefer to use DES, please call the CERT hotline for more
information.
Getting security information
CERT publications and other security information are available from
our web site http://www.cert.org/
To subscribe to the CERT mailing list for advisories and bulletins,
send email to majordomo@cert.org. Please include in the body of your
message
subscribe cert-advisory
* "CERT" and "CERT Coordination Center" are registered in the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office.
______________________________________________________________________
NO WARRANTY
Any material furnished by Carnegie Mellon University and the Software
Engineering Institute is furnished on an "as is" basis. Carnegie
Mellon University makes no warranties of any kind, either expressed or
implied as to any matter including, but not limited to, warranty of
fitness for a particular purpose or merchantability, exclusivity or
results obtained from use of the material. Carnegie Mellon University
does not make any warranty of any kind with respect to freedom from
patent, trademark, or copyright infringement.
_________________________________________________________________
Conditions for use, disclaimers, and sponsorship information
Heh! Funny you should post that... I just got done reading it.
Sometimes its hard to keep track of all the stuff that flies around on those mailing lists... the summary can be much nicer... though not as entertaining as some of the msgs that come through...
June 4th, 2003, 04:47 PM
w0rm3y
i also get reports from NIPC and SANS, it's amazing the amount of information outlet we have.
thanks for the post. i think people in the field should really subscribe to these things, although they messed up on bind vulenerability last year.
