SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #154

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Date: 09/16/03

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    SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #154
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    I. FRONT AND CENTER
         1. Dynamic Honeypots
         2. Demonstrating ROI for Penetration Testing (Part Three)
         3. Hardening the TCP/IP stack to SYN attacks
         4. SecurityFocus New Mailing List Announcement
    II. MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
         1. FoxWeb PATH_INFO Remote Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
         2. ISS RealSecure Server Sensor SSL Denial Of Service Vulnerabi...
         3. Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser Popup Window Object Type...
         4. Microsoft ASP.NET Request Validation Null Byte Filter Bypass...
         5. ICQ Webfront guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
         6. Kukol E.V. HTTP & FTP Server Suite File Disclosure Vulnerabi...
         7. Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Page Object Type Validation ...
         8. Roger Wilco Remote Server Side Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
         9. NullSoft Winamp MIDI Plugin IN_MIDI.DLL Track Data Size Buff...
         10. Roger Wilco Remote Username Denial of Service Vulnerability
         11. PHPBB URL BBCode HTML Injection Vulnerability
         12. RealOne Player Insecure Configuration File Permission Local ...
         13. WinRAR Compressed File Size Misrepresentation Weakness
         14. Invision Power Board Index.php Showtopic Cross-Site Scriptin...
         15. Multiple Microsoft Internet Explorer Script Execution Vulner...
         16. Yak! Chat Client FTP Server Default Credentials Vulnerabilit...
         17. KokeshCMS Unauthorized Content Editing Vulnerability
         18. Pine Message/External-Body Type Attribute Buffer Overflow Vu...
         19. MySQL Password Handler Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
    III. MICROSOFT FOCUS LIST SUMMARY
         1. windows 2000 security logs (Thread)
         2. Disabling sharing and group policies (Thread)
         3. Security for Win XP Home (Thread)
         4. GPO for one machine (Thread)
         5. RE: Disabling sharing and group policies (Thread)
         6. Domain vs. Local security policy (Thread)
         7. Disable USB on a per user basis? (Thread)
         8. Limiting users on secific machines that are part of ... (Thread)
         9. Voting on issues for this list and SecurityFocus (Fo... (Thread)
         10. SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #153 (Thread)
         11. Possible information leakage from DNS quirks (Thread)
         12. SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #152 (Thread)
    IV. NEW PRODUCTS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
         1. Sophos Anti-Virus
         2. LANDesk Management Suite 7
         3. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
         4. Enterprise Manager
         5. ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0
         6. ActiveScout Enterprise
    V. NEW TOOLS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
         1. The OpenAntivirus Project: Summary Various
         2. BO2K v1.1.1
         3. OSIRIS v2.0.0b
         4. SysOrb v2.4.2
         5. ccrypt v1.6
         6. Star v1.5a21
    VI. SPONSOR INFORMATION

    I. FRONT AND CENTER
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    1. Dynamic Honeypots
    By Lance Spitzner

    The search for the dream honeypot: dynamic honeypots, an appliance-like
    plug-and-play solution.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1731

    2. Demonstrating ROI for Penetration Testing (Part Three)
    By Marcia Wilson

    The third article in this series focuses on defining terms related to the
    Risk Analysis process and touches on Information Asset valuation methods
    that are critical when justifying the necessity and expense of a Pen
    Test.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1730

    3. Hardening the TCP/IP stack to SYN attacks
    By Mariusz Burdach

    This article discusses methods of hardening the TCP/IP stack of various
    operating systems to make servers more resistant to SYN flooding and SYN
    spoofing Denial of Service (DOS) attacks.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1729

    4. SecurityFocus New Mailing List Announcement

    We are pleased to announce the launch of two new mailing lists for the
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    II. MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
    -----------------------------------
    1. FoxWeb PATH_INFO Remote Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 8547
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 05 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8547
    Summary:
    FoxWeb is a Foxpro-based web application development framework. It is
    available for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

    FoxWeb is prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability.
    This is due to insufficient bounds checking of user-supplied PATH_INFO
    data to the FoxWeb CGI and ISAPI extension (foxweb.exe and foxweb.dll).
    If more than 3000 bytes are supplied as input to PATH_INFO, adjacent
    regions of stack memory may be overrun with the excessive data. This
    could potentially allow a remote attacker to corrupt stack variables, such
    as a return address, with specific data. This may be leveraged by the
    attacker to control the execution flow of the program.

    Successful exploitation would permit a remote attacker to execute
    arbitrary code in the context of the software.

    2. ISS RealSecure Server Sensor SSL Denial Of Service Vulnerabi...
    BugTraq ID: 8550
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 05 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8550
    Summary:
    ISS RealSecure Server Sensor is an intrusion detection technology that can
    integrate with an underlying web server such as Microsoft IIS or Apache.
    It supports a number of platforms including Microsoft Windows and
    Unix/Linux variants.

    ISS RealSecure Server Sensor is prone to a denial of service when handling
    a malicious request over SSL. It is reportedly possible to reproduce this
    condition by passing invalid unicode characters in a request over SSL.
    This vulnerability could be exploited to crash the underlying Microsoft
    IIS web server. It should be noted that the service may be automatically
    restarted.

    It is not known if this issue affects other platforms or can be exploited
    to crash other underlying web server implementations.

    The researchers who discovered this vulnerability are currently
    investigating the possibility of exploiting this issue to execute
    arbitrary code, though sufficient details are not available regarding this
    at the time of writing. This BID will be updated and impacts adjusted
    accordingly if more details become available.

    3. Microsoft Internet Explorer Browser Popup Window Object Type...
    BugTraq ID: 8556
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 07 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8556
    Summary:
    Internet Explorer does not properly handle object types, when rendering
    web browser popup windows. This may result in the possibility of the
    execution of malicious software.

    The problem occurs when Internet Explorer receives a response from the
    server when a malicious popup window containing an object tag is parsed.
    Proper parameter checks of the type of file being loaded are not performed
    on the object type contained within HTTP response received from the web
    server.

    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a malicious
    object to be trusted and as such be installed and executed on the local
    system. All code execution would occur in the security context of the user
    running the affected browser. It should be noted that an attacker might be
    capable of also executing locally installed executables with command-line
    parameters.

    This issue is related to Microsoft Bulletin MS03-032 and BID 8456, it has
    also been reported to be related to BID 3867.

    4. Microsoft ASP.NET Request Validation Null Byte Filter Bypass...
    BugTraq ID: 8562
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8562
    Summary:
    ASP.NET 1.1 ships with a Request Validation feature that is designed to
    sanitize malicious user-supplied HTML before it is rendered to clients.

    It has been reported that Request Validation does not perform as expected,
    and under some circumstances may be bypassed. As a result, ASP scripts
    that depend on Request Validation to sanitize user-supplied input may
    still be prone to cross-site scripting or HTML injection attacks as a
    result. Request Validation may be bypassed by including a null byte (%00)
    in malicious user-supplied input. It has been demonstrated that this
    issue may be exploited if a null byte is placed after the '<' character in
    a HTML tag, for example:

    <%00script>

    This will effectively bypass the feature, but many clients will ignore the
    null byte and render the HTML tag normally.

    It should be noted that this can also create a false sense of security,
    since the expectation is that Request Validation should sufficiently
    sanitize hostile input. Developers may design scripts with this
    expectation and not implement native validation of user-supplied input.

    5. ICQ Webfront guestbook Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 8563
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8563
    Summary:
    ICQ is an instant messenger client for Microsoft Windows systems and other
    platforms. ICQ Webfront is used to create personal web sites that are
    integrated with a user's ICQ client. ICQ Webfront allows users to share
    personal information, contacts, and files with other users.

    A vulnerability has been reported to exist in the message field of the
    guestbook module of ICQ Webfront. This issue may allow a remote attacker
    to execute HTML or script code in a user's browser due to insufficient
    sanitization of user input.

    The problem is reported to exist due to a lack of sanitization of
    user-supplied input by the software. HTML and script code will be
    rendered in a user's browser, therefore making it possible for an attacker
    to a construct a malicious link containing HTML or script code that may be
    rendered in a user's browser upon visiting that link. This attack would
    occur in the security context of the affected site.

    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to
    steal cookie-based authentication credentials. Other attacks may well be
    possible.

    ICQ 2003 has been listed as a vulnerable package, however other versions
    may be affected as well.

    6. Kukol E.V. HTTP & FTP Server Suite File Disclosure Vulnerabi...
    BugTraq ID: 8564
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8564
    Summary:
    Kukol E.V. HTTP & FTP Server Suite is a web/file server that is available
    for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

    The web server component of Kukol E.V. HTTP & FTP Server Suite is prone to
    a file disclosure vulnerability. Remote web users may use directory
    traversal sequences in requests to gain access to files outside of the
    server's web root directory. In this manner, contents of files that are
    readable by the web server may be disclosed to remote attackers.

    This vulnerability has the potential to disclose sensitive information
    that may be useful in mounting further attacks against the system hosting
    the software.

    7. Microsoft Internet Explorer XML Page Object Type Validation ...
    BugTraq ID: 8565
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8565
    Summary:
    Internet Explorer does not properly handle object types, when rendering
    XML based web sites. This may result in the possibility of the execution
    of malicious software.

    The problem occurs when Internet Explorer receives a response from the
    server when a malicious XML web page containing an embedded object tag is
    parsed. Proper parameter checks of the type of file being loaded are not
    performed on the object type contained within HTTP response received from
    the web server.

    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a malicious
    object to be trusted and as such be installed and executed on the local
    system. All code execution would occur in the security context of the user
    running the affected browser. It should be noted that an attacker might be
    capable of also executing locally installed executables with command-line
    parameters.

    This issue is related to Microsoft Bulletin MS03-032, BID 8456 and BID
    8556 it has also been reported to be related to BID 3867.

    8. Roger Wilco Remote Server Side Buffer Overrun Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 8566
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8566
    Summary:
    Roger Wilco is a net-based communication client designed to allow users to
    speak in real-time. Multiple clients may connect to a single server
    allowing remote users to interact. It is available for the Microsoft
    Windows operating servers.

    A remote buffer overrun has been reported for various Roger Wilco server
    releases. The problem lies in the fact that the vulnerable servers rely on
    client-side size values when copying data into internal memory buffers.

    When a client attempts to connect to a server, it first transmits a packet
    containing a variety of data, including the password and channel. The 3rd
    and 4th bytes of this packet denote the size of this data. Upon receiving
    this transmission, the server uses the client-supplied size value when
    copying the data into an internal memory buffer. As the size value is two
    bytes, an attacker could theoretically supply up to 65535 bytes of data to
    be copied into the server. As the server has previously allocated a buffer
    believed to be of sufficient size, this could result in a buffer overrun.

    An attacker may be capable of exploiting this issue to overwrite sensitive
    memory variables within the server process space. This could ultimately
    allow for the execution flow of the server to be controlled, and may
    result in the execution of attacker-supplied instructions.

    9. NullSoft Winamp MIDI Plugin IN_MIDI.DLL Track Data Size Buff...
    BugTraq ID: 8567
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8567
    Summary:
    NullSoft Winamp is a freely available media player from Nullsoft. It is
    available for the Microsoft Windows platform. IN_MIDI.DLL is the default
    MIDI plugin used by Winamp when processing MIDI files.

    Winamp MIDI plugin, IN_MIDI.DLL has been reported prone to a buffer
    overflow issue when handling malicious MIDI files. The issue presents
    itself when a value of 'ffffffff', is passed as a value for the Track Data
    Size of a MIDI file header. Although unconfirmed the vulnerability may be
    due to an unsigned signed mismatch when performing bounds checking on data
    that is being copied into an internal buffer in stack based memory. The
    signed value of 0xffffffff (-1), instead of the unsigned value may be used
    erroneously in boundary conditions arithmetic.

    Although unconfirmed it has been conjectured that an attacker may exploit
    this condition to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user who is
    running the affected Winamp player.

    It has been reported that user interaction may hinder exploitation of this
    vulnerability, for example how the file is opened, or the default MIDI
    device that is used.

    It should be noted that due to default MIDI file player registry settings
    made when Winamp is installed, this issue may also be automatically
    exploitable when malicious web pages or HTML email are viewed.

    Winamp version >=3.01 IN_MIDI.DLL has been reported prone to this issue.

    10. Roger Wilco Remote Username Denial of Service Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 8568
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8568
    Summary:
    Roger Wilco is a net-based communication client designed to allow users to
    speak in real-time. Multiple clients may connect to a single Roger Wilco
    server, allowing remote users to interact. It is available for the
    Microsoft Windows operating servers.

    It has been reported that connecting to a Roger Wilco server with a
    username of excessive length may cause the server to crash. The problem is
    said to occur within the NETWORK.DLL library, specifically when someone
    with a 33 byte or larger username connects to the server. This may
    effectively deny service to other legitimate users.

    Although it has not been confirmed, this issue may be due to insufficient
    bounds checking before copying username data into an internal memory
    buffer.

    This vulnerability is said to affect Roger Wilco 1.4.1.6.

    11. PHPBB URL BBCode HTML Injection Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 8570
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 08 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8570
    Summary:
    phpBB is an open-source web forum application that is written in PHP and
    supported by a number of database products. It will run on most Unix and
    Linux variants, as well as Microsoft Windows operating systems.

    BBCode is a basic restricted implementation of HTML that is used to
    control the appearance of text in user-supplied phpBB entries.

    phpBB BBCode has been reported prone to an HTML injection vulnerability.
    It has been reported that an attacker may inject malicious script into
    areas of phpBB where BBCode is rendered, for example bulletin board posts
    or private messages. This issue is due to a lack of sufficient
    sanitization performed on user supplied URL BBCode tags. The [url] BBCode
    tag is reported vulnerable.

    As a result of the lack of sanitization, injected code may be rendered in
    the web browser of a user who views vulnerable areas of the site. This
    would occur in the security context of the site hosting phpBB and its
    related modules.

    An attacker may exploit this issue to steal cookie-based authentication
    credentials, other attacks may also be possible.

    Although this vulnerability has been reported to affect phpBB version
    2.0.6, other versions may also be vulnerable.

    12. RealOne Player Insecure Configuration File Permission Local ...
    BugTraq ID: 8571
    Remote: No
    Date Published: Sep 09 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8571
    Summary:
    RealOne Player is a media player that is available for a number of
    platforms including Microsoft Windows and MacOS systems.

    RealOne Player reported prone to a local privilege escalation
    vulnerability.

    The configuration files for the RealOne Player are installed in the
    '.realnetworks' hidden folder in a users home directory. The issue
    presents itself, because configuration files stored in this directory are
    installed with 0660 permissions. This means that an attacker, who is in
    the same group as a target user, may modify RealOne Player configuration
    files and may thereby escalate privileges to that of the target user.

    A local attacker may exploit this condition; by creating a Trojan shared
    library and modifying the 'dt_codecs' variable in the 'RealShared_0_0'
    configuration file, so that it points to the malicious shared library.
    This may result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the target
    user, when RealOne Player is executed. Other methods of exploitation are
    also possible.

    It should be noted, that this vulnerability has been reported to affect
    X86 Linux variants of RealOne Player.

    13. WinRAR Compressed File Size Misrepresentation Weakness
    BugTraq ID: 8572
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 09 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8572
    Summary:
    WinRAR is a compression utility capable of reading and writing files using
    several different archival formats. It is available for the Microsoft
    Windows Operating system.

    WinRAR is prone to a weakness that may allow malicious parties to
    misrepresent the size of compressed files. This issue occurs because
    WinRAR trusts values in the .rar header without adequately verifying the
    actual file size.

    If the .rar header is otherwise correct and contains a valid CRC checksum,
    then WinRAR will pre-allocate space to decompress the file based on file
    size information provided in the header. During pre-allocation, WinRAR
    will not verify that there is enough disk space to decompress files
    included in the archive based on their actual size (since pre-allocation
    is based on the size specified in the header). This presents a security
    threat because a user may expect that a compressed file is a certain size
    and decompress it based on this assumption. A deceptively large file
    could be included in an archive that consumes all available disk space
    when it is decompressed. Furthermore, under some circumstances, WinRAR
    may attempt to extract a file based on the size specified in the header,
    even if the actual file size is relatively small, filling any disk space
    beyond the end of the decompressed file with zeroes.

    UnRar, a Rar add-on distributed by RARLAB, is also prone to this issue.
    The UnRar add-on is available for a number of operating systems, including
    Unix/Linux derivatives and may be invoked automatically by various virus
    scanners. This could pose an additional attack vector which does not
    require user interaction to exploit.

    There have been conflicting reports as to whether WinRar 3.20 is
    vulnerable to this issue or not.

    14. Invision Power Board Index.php Showtopic Cross-Site Scriptin...
    BugTraq ID: 8575
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 09 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8575
    Summary:
    Invision Board is web forum software. It is implemented in PHP and is
    available for Unix and Linux variants and Microsoft Windows operating
    systems.

    Invision Power Board index.php script reported prone to a cross-site
    scripting vulnerability.

    The issue presents itself due to a lack of sufficient sanitization
    performed by functions in the index.php script on user-influenced
    'showtopic' URI parameter. It has been reported that a remote attacker may
    construct a malicious link to the script and supply arbitrary HTML code as
    a value for the 'showtopic' URI parameter. If this link is followed, the
    content of the 'showtopic' parameter will be rendered in the browser of
    the user who followed the link.

    This could permit the theft of cookie authentication credentials; other
    attacks may also be possible.

    15. Multiple Microsoft Internet Explorer Script Execution Vulner...
    BugTraq ID: 8577
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 10 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8577
    Summary:
    Multiple issues have been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Though
    these issues have been reported by a reliable source, communication issues
    have presented difficulty in obtaining details surrounding the reported
    issues. This vulnerability entry will be updated when additional
    information becomes available.

    The following issues may exist, based on the limited information currently
    available:

    1. A javascript-protocol URL left in browser history will result in the
    execution of javascript if the browser back button is pressed.

    2. Under some circumstances, it may be possible to break functionality in
    Internet Explorer to map the find function to the execution of arbitrary
    functions. This appears to be done by hijacking the Control-F function
    within IE.

    3. It may be possible to hijack the click function within Internet
    Explorer to instead perform a dragNdrop function. By doing so, an
    attacker could drag an arbitrary homepage into a targeted list.

    4. Similar to the issue described under point three, it may be possible to
    hijack a different method to perform specific actions within the browser,
    this removing the need for user action to perform potentially malicious
    functions.

    5. Due to insecure handling of script code by the search function, it is
    possible to execute script code in the search window. This may result in
    a violation of browser security policy.

    6. It may be possible to bypass the URL check performed by the search
    method, making it possible to pass a HREF property into a BASE tag.

    7. It is possible to abuse the file: protocol to potentially execute code
    in the local security zone. The window.external.NavigateAndFind is a
    method that may be abused in such an instance. This issue, combined with
    a previously disclosed problem, can permit an attacker to inject malicious
    code into the media sidebar error page, resulting in the execution of code
    in the security context of the "My Computer" zone.

    Other issues exist, however preliminary details are either unclear or not
    available at this time. Further, the available information may change as
    available details are further clarified. This vulnerability will be
    further updated as more information becomes available.

    16. Yak! Chat Client FTP Server Default Credentials Vulnerabilit...
    BugTraq ID: 8581
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 10 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8581
    Summary:
    Yak! is a commercially-available chat client distributed by Digicraft
    Software. It is available for the Microsoft Windows platform.

    It has been reported that a vulnerability exists in the Yak! client client
    FTP server. This problem may allow an attacker unauthorized access to
    resources.

    The problem is in the default credentials created with the Yak! FTP
    server. When the FTP server is installed, it installs a user 'Yak' with
    the password 'asd123' by default. This user is granted full access to the
    file system on which the FTP server resides. The FTP server listens on
    port 3535.

    17. KokeshCMS Unauthorized Content Editing Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 8585
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 09 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8585
    Summary:
    KokeshCMS is a content management system that is implemented in PHP. It
    is available for Microsoft Windows operating systems and Unix/Linux
    variants.

    KokeshCMS does not adequately secure access to the content editing script
    (edit.php). The source of the problem is that KokeshCMS does not force
    users to authenticate before granting access to the script. As a result,
    remote users can access this script without needing to authenticate. A
    remote attacker could exploit this issue to manipulate content on sites
    managed by the software, for example, placing malicious or abusive content
    on a site. This could pose an additional risk if users trust the site's
    content.

    18. Pine Message/External-Body Type Attribute Buffer Overflow Vu...
    BugTraq ID: 8588
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 10 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8588
    Summary:
    Pine is a freely available, open source Mail User Agent. It is
    distributed by the University of Washington, and available for the Unix,
    Linux, and Microsoft platforms.

    A problem in Pine has been reported when handling "message/external body
    type" attributes. Because of this, an attacker may be able to gain
    unauthorized access to a host using the vulnerable software.

    The problem is in the parsing of the name/value pairs. Due to improper
    bounds checking, it is possible to supply a value in this field that
    results in the overwriting of sensitive process memory. An attacker can
    exploit this with a custom string to execute arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the Pine user.

    19. MySQL Password Handler Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 8590
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Sep 10 2003
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8590
    Summary:
    MySQL is an open source relational database project. It is available for
    the Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems.

    MySQL server has been reported prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability
    when handling user passwords of excessive size.

    The issue presents itself, due to a lack of sufficient bounds checking
    performed on MySQL user passwords that are stored in the 'Password' field
    of the 'User' table in a MySQL database. It has been reported that MySQL
    fails to properly perform bounds checking when processing passwords. A
    password greater that 16 characters may overrun the bounds of a reserved
    buffer in memory and corrupt adjacent memory. The buffer overflow occurs
    in an ACL_USER instance of acl_init(), and may ultimately result in the
    corruption of a saved instruction pointer.

    An attacker with global administrative privileges on an affected MySQL
    server may potentially exploit this condition to have arbitrary supplied
    instructions executed in the context of the MySQL server.

    This vulnerability has been reported to affect all versions of MySQL up to
    and including 4.0.14 and 3.0.57.

    III. MICROSOFT FOCUS LIST SUMMARY
    ---------------------------------
    1. windows 2000 security logs (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/337444

    2. Disabling sharing and group policies (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/337441

    3. Security for Win XP Home (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/337312

    4. GPO for one machine (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/337289

    5. RE: Disabling sharing and group policies (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/337182

    6. Domain vs. Local security policy (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/336996

    7. Disable USB on a per user basis? (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/336930

    8. Limiting users on secific machines that are part of ... (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

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    IV. NEW PRODUCTS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
    ----------------------------------------
    1. Sophos Anti-Virus
    By: Sophos
    Platforms: AIX, DOS, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS, Netware, OS/2, Solaris,
    UNIX, VMS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
    Relevant URL: http://www.sophos.com/products/sav/
    Summary:

    Sophos Anti-Virus is a unique solution to the virus problem, providing
    true cross-platform protection in a single, fully integrated product. The
    network-centric design provides a host of benefits for the protection of
    servers, workstations and portables. Sophos's ground-breaking architecture
    maximises protection, while minimising performance and administrative
    overheads.

    2. LANDesk Management Suite 7
    By: LANDesk Software
    Platforms: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98,
    Windows NT, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.landesk.com/products/ilms/
    Summary:

    LANDesk Management Suite 7 is a comprehensive, integrated management
    solution that's easy to use. Enabling proactive management of desktops,
    server and mobile devices across heterogeneous IT environments.
     - Keep up with security patches and virus updates
     - Efficiently install and maintain software on the desktop
     - Decrease software license costs and respond to audits
     - Reduce the cost of helpdesk support
     - Discover and manage hardware and software assets
     - Migrate many users and their profiles to new operating systems

    3. McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
    By: Network Associates
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows XP
    Relevant URL:
    http://www.nai.com/us/products/mcafee/antivirus/fileserver/epo.htm
    Summary:

    McAfee Security ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) is the market-leading tool for
    centralized policy management of malicious threat protection. ePO allows
    you to maintain up-to-date protection, configure and enforce policies, and
    generate detailed graphical reports on McAfee Security and third party
    products, including Symantec and Dr Ahn anti-virus products.

    4. Enterprise Manager
    By: Sophos
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows NT
    Relevant URL: http://www.sophos.com/products/em/
    Summary:

    The Enterprise Manager suite is a powerful set of tools allowing fully
    automated web-based installation and updating of Sophos software across a
    network and even to remote users.

    Network administrators are put in full control and can monitor their
    network at all times. Unprotected computers or those running an
    out-of-date version of Sophos Anti-Virus can be immediately and
    automatically updated. In practice, a network of 1000 or more clients can
    be updated from a single, central Windows machine within five minutes.

    5. ZoneAlarm Pro 4.0
    By: Zone Labs
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.zonelabs.com
    Summary:

    Hackers lurk everywhere on the Internet, waiting for an "in" into your
    personal and financial information. Even legitimate Web sites have
    sophisticated methods of snooping, such as cookies that track your
    identity and browsing habits. You need nothing less than the industry's
    best protection?ZoneAlarm Pro. It offers you the award-winning firewall
    that Zone Labs is famous for. Plus, it stops annoying and potentially
    malicious cookies and pop-ups from invading your system.

    6. ActiveScout Enterprise
    By: ForeScout Technologies
    Platforms: Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
    Relevant URL: http://www.forescout.com/enterprise.html
    Summary:

    ActiveScout Enterprises actively protects a network with multiple access
    points. In addition to the identification of attackers and automatic
    action to stop them, this solution offers full management capabilities,
    from configuration and reporting, to the sharing of threat information
    between multiple deployed scouts.

    V. NEW TOOLS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
    ------------------------------------
    1. The OpenAntivirus Project: Summary Various
    By: cbricart, fz-net, hfuhs, kurti and reniar
    Relevant URL: http://www.openantivirus.org/
    Platforms: Os Independent, POSIX, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows NT,
    Windows XP
    Summary:

    Developing Open Source AntiVirus Solutions

    2. BO2K v1.1.1
    By: andrereis and j_aroche
    Relevant URL: http://www.bo2k.com/
    Platforms: Linux, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
    Summary:

    BO2K is a remote administration tool for Windows systems. It comes with a
    client and a server. The server is lightweight and inobtrusive. A dynamic
    plugin architechture allows for easy system extension.

    3. OSIRIS v2.0.0b
    By: The Shmoo Group
    Relevant URL: http://osiris.shmoo.com
    Platforms: BSDI, FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, OpenBSD, UNIX, Windows 2000,
    Windows NT, Windows XP
    Summary:

    Osiris is a host integrity management system that can be used to monitor
    changes to a network of hosts over time and report those changes back to
    the administrator(s). Currently, this includes monitoring any changes to
    the filesystems. Osiris takes periodic snapshots of the filesystem and
    stores them in a database. These databases, as well as the
    configurations and logs, are all stored on a central management host.
    When changes are detected, Osiris will log these events to the system
    log and optionally send email to an administrator. In addition to files,
    Osiris has preliminary support for the monitoring of other system
    information including user lists, file system details, kernel modules,
    and network interface configurations (not included with in this beta
    release).

    4. SysOrb v2.4.2
    By: oestergaard
    Relevant URL: http://www.sysorb.com/
    Platforms: FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, SunOS, Windows 2000, Windows NT
    Summary:

    SysOrb is a client/server package that can monitor servers remotely (such
    as Web servers), or monitor devices on servers (such as disks, memory,
    load, etc.). It will alert the administrators via e-mail or pager if a
    server is entering a critical condition, and has its own database backend,
    allowing for massive collection of system statistics.

    5. ccrypt v1.6
    By: Peter Selinger
    Relevant URL: http://quasar.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~selinger/ccrypt/
    Platforms: AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, MacOS, Solaris, SunOS, Windows 2000,
    Windows 95/98, Windows NT
    Summary:

    ccrypt is a commandline utility for encrypting and decrypting files and
    streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard Unix crypt
    utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm.
    ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government's
    chosen candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). This cipher
    is believed to provide very strong security. A compatibility mode is
    included for decrypting legacy "unix crypt" files.

    6. Star v1.5a21
    By: Jörg Schilling
    Relevant URL:
    http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
    Platforms: BeOS, MacOS, OS/2, POSIX, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows
    NT, Windows XP
    Summary:

    Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes
    POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star
    is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many
    files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore
    individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern
    matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and
    ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format
    detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive
    compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that
    allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the
    only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux
    incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all
    Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to
    contact any OS as server.

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