SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #225

From: Marc Fossi (mfossi_at_securityfocus.com)
Date: 01/27/05

  • Next message: Gerson Ricardo: "RESPONSE: Users "bypassing" Group Policy restrictions"
    Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:53:57 -0700 (MST)
    To: Focus-MS <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
    
    

    SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #225
    ----------------------------------------

    Need to know what's happening on YOUR network? Symantec DeepSight Analyzer
    is a free service that gives you the ability to track and manage attacks.
    Analyzer automatically correlates attacks from various Firewall and
    network
    based Intrusion Detection Systems, giving you a comprehensive view of your
    computer or general network. Sign up today!

    http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/Symantec_sf-news_041130

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    I. FRONT AND CENTER
         1. Unintended Consequences
         2. Blind Buffer Overflows In ISAPI Extensions
    II. MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
         1. SparkleBlog Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities
         2. MySQL Database MySQLAccess Local Insecure Temporary File Cre...
         3. INCA nProtect Gameguard Unprivileged Arbitrary Read/Write Ac...
         4. Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server Mobile Data ...
         5. Netegrity SiteMinder HTML Page Injection Vulnerability
         6. Gallery Multiple Unspecified Input Validation Vulnerabilitie...
         7. ImageMagick Photoshop Document Parsing Remote Client-Side Bu...
         8. Kazaa Sig2Dat Protocol Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
         9. Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Information Disclosure Vu...
         10. VBulletin Init.PHP Unspecified Remote Vulnerability
         11. CMSimple Multiple Remote Input Validation Vulnerabilities
         12. RealNetworks RealOne Player And RealPlayer ShowPreferences A...
         13. RealNetworks RealOne Player And RealPlayer Multiple Potentia...
         14. DivX Player Skin File Directory Traversal Vulnerability
    III. MICROSOFT FOCUS LIST SUMMARY
         1. AW: IIS6 on W2k3 DCs (Thread)
         2. Dhcp security (Thread)
         3. IIS6 on W2k3 DCs (Thread)
         4. [Maybe Spam] Dhcp security (Thread)
         5. PGP and Outlook (Thread)
         6. SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #224 (Thread)
         7. local admin vs group policy and apps... (Thread)
    IV. NEW PRODUCTS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
         1. CoreGuard Core Security System
         2. KeyCaptor Keylogger
         3. SpyBuster
         4. FreezeX
         5. NeoExec for Active Directory
         6. Secrets Protector v2.03
    V. NEW TOOLS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
         1. Network Equipment Performance Monitor 2.2
         2. Etherchange v1.0
         3. IPFront 1.0
         4. Azure Web Log 1.5
         5. Interface Traffic Indicator 1.2.3
         6. Colasoft Capsa 4.05
    VI. UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS
    VII. SPONSOR INFORMATION

    I. FRONT AND CENTER
    -------------------
    1. Unintended Consequences
    By Scott Granneman

    The law of unintended consequences shows us how many innocent innovations
    like email, anti-virus and DRM can become something far worse than the
    inventors had ever imagined.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/293

    2. Blind Buffer Overflows In ISAPI Extensions
    By Isaac Dawson

    This paper will outline the risks ISAPI Extensions pose and how they can
    be
    exploited by third parties without any binary exposure or knowledge using
    blind stack overflows. This method can enable remote code execution in
    proprietary and third party applications.

    http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1819

    II. MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
    -----------------------------------
    1. SparkleBlog Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities
    BugTraq ID: 12272
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 15 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12272
    Summary:
    Multiple input validation vulnerabilities reportedly affect SparkleBlog.
    These issues are due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize
    user-supplied input prior to using it to carry out critical actions.

    The first issue is a cross-site scripting issue and the second issue is an
    SQL injection issue.

    An attacker may leverage these issues to carry out cross-site scripting
    and SQL injection attacks against the affected application. This may
    result in the theft of authentication credentials, destruction or
    disclosure of sensitive data, and potentially other attacks.

    2. MySQL Database MySQLAccess Local Insecure Temporary File Cre...
    BugTraq ID: 12277
    Remote: No
    Date Published: Jan 17 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12277
    Summary:
    A local insecure temporary file creation vulnerability affects the MySQL
    Database. This issue is due to a failure of a script bundled with the
    application to securely create temporary files in globally accessible
    locations.

    An attacker may leverage this issue to corrupt arbitrary files with the
    privileges of the user that activates the vulnerable script.

    3. INCA nProtect Gameguard Unprivileged Arbitrary Read/Write Ac...
    BugTraq ID: 12280
    Remote: No
    Date Published: Jan 17 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12280
    Summary:
    It is reported that the INCA nProtect Gameguard kernel driver provides
    functionality that may impact the security model of a Windows NT/2000/XP
    computer. Reports indicate the affected kernel driver provides
    functionality to modify the I/O permission mask of the process that
    invokes the affected driver to allow for unrestricted I/O operations in
    unprivileged user-mode.

    An unprivileged attacker that has obtainined local interactive access to a
    computer that is running the vulnerable kernel mode driver may exploit
    this to make arbitrary read and write operations to a specified device.

    4. Research In Motion Blackberry Enterprise Server Mobile Data ...
    BugTraq ID: 12282
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 17 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12282
    Summary:
    Blackberry Enterprise Server is reportedly affected by a remote denial of
    service vulnerability. This issue is due to an error while processing WML
    (Wireless Markup Language) pages in the 'Mobile Data Service'.
    Exploitation of this issue would cause a 100% processor utilization, thus
    resulting in a denial of service.

    5. Netegrity SiteMinder HTML Page Injection Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 12284
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 17 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12284
    Summary:
    Netegrity SiteMinder is reported prone to a vulnerability that may allow
    an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML pages that may be rendered in a
    user's browser through a URI link. This issue originates in the
    'smpwservicescgi.exe' script and can facilitate arbitrary script execution
    and other attacks such as phishing.

    An attacker can manipulate URI parameters to redirect a user to a
    potentially malicious Web page after authentication to the server.

    All versions of SiteMinder are considered vulnerable at the moment.

    6. Gallery Multiple Unspecified Input Validation Vulnerabilitie...
    BugTraq ID: 12286
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 17 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12286
    Summary:
    Gallery is reported prone to multiple unspecified remote input validation
    vulnerabilities. It is reported that multiple instances of insufficient
    sanitization performed on Gallery variables were fixed; reports indicate
    that these issues may be exploited to disclose Gallery passwords contained
    in the Gallery database.

    7. ImageMagick Photoshop Document Parsing Remote Client-Side Bu...
    BugTraq ID: 12287
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 17 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12287
    Summary:
    A client-side buffer overflow vulnerability affects the Photoshop document
    (PSD) parsing functionality of ImageMagick. This issue is due to a failure
    of the application to properly validate the length of user-supplied
    strings prior to copying them into static process buffers.

    An attacker may exploit this issue remotely by sending a malicious file
    through email or some other means to an unsuspecting user and enticing
    them to process it with the affected application.

    An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the user that activated the vulnerable application. This may
    facilitate unauthorized access or privilege escalation.

    8. Kazaa Sig2Dat Protocol Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
    BugTraq ID: 12291
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 17 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12291
    Summary:
    Multiple remote vulnerabilities reportedly affect KaZaA's Sig2Dat protocol
    functionality. These issues are due to a failure of the application to
    properly sanitize user-supplied input prior to using it in critical
    actions.

    An attacker may leverage these issues to cause the affected application to
    crash, denying service to legitimate users, and to create files in
    arbitrary directories that are readable to the affected application.

    9. Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Information Disclosure Vu...
    BugTraq ID: 12294
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 18 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12294
    Summary:
    A remote information disclosure vulnerability affects Microsoft Internet
    Explorer. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly
    secure scripts that reside on a local computer.

    An attacker may leverage this issue to identify any scripts that may
    reside on an unsuspecting user's computer. Information disclosed in this
    way may lead to further attacks against affected computers.

    Any script access that occurs will take place in the context of the
    unsuspecting user that views the malicious page.

    10. VBulletin Init.PHP Unspecified Remote Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 12299
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 18 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12299
    Summary:
    VBulletin is reported prone to an unspecified vulnerability that presents
    itself in the 'includes/init.php' script.

    It is reported that this vulnerability may be exploited to compromise an
    affected VBulletin installation; this compromise may include information
    disclosure.

    This BID will be updated, as further information regarding this
    vulnerability is made available.

    11. CMSimple Multiple Remote Input Validation Vulnerabilities
    BugTraq ID: 12303
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 19 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12303
    Summary:
    Multiple input validation vulnerabilities affect CMSimple. These issues
    are due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied
    input prior to including it in dynamically generated Web content.

    The first issue is an HTML injection vulnerability in the guestbook
    functionality of the application. The second issue is a cross-site script
    vulnerability in the search functionality of the application.

    An attacker may leverage these issues to have arbitrary script code
    executed in the context of the vulnerable Web site. This will facilitate
    theft of cookie based authentication credentials as well as other attacks.

    12. RealNetworks RealOne Player And RealPlayer ShowPreferences A...
    BugTraq ID: 12311
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 19 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12311
    Summary:
    RealOne Player and RealPlayer are affected by a buffer overflow
    vulnerability. This issue may be exploited by a remote attacker to
    execute arbitrary code in the context of the software.

    The application fails to perfrom proper boundary checks before copying the
    arguments of the 'ShowPreferences' action to a static buffer through a
    'sprintf()' function call.

    An attacker can design a malicious Web site or skin file and trigger an
    overflow condition in the application. This issue may be leveraged to
    execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application.

    It is likely that this issue is identical the vulnerability described in
    BID 11307 (RealNetworks RealOne Player And RealPlayer Unspecified Web Page
    Code Execution Vulnerability). This cannot be confirmed at the moment,
    however, one of the BIDs will be retired, if it turns out that the BIDs
    represent the same issue.

    13. RealNetworks RealOne Player And RealPlayer Multiple Potentia...
    BugTraq ID: 12315
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 20 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12315
    Summary:
    RealNetworks RealOne Player And RealPlayer are reported prone to multiple
    potential vulnerabilities. These issues may allow an attacker to
    potentially execute arbitrary code or disclose the presence of files on a
    vulnerable computer.

    The following specific issues were identified:

    The first issue presents itself when the application processes Real
    Metadata Package files containing malformed tags. The researchers
    responsible for discovering this issue have reported that this issue may
    not be exploitable and represents a potential threat.

    The second issue may allow attacker to determine the existence of files on
    a vulnerable computer. The validity of this issue is not confirmed at the
    moment is also considered a potential threat.

    It is likely that this issues were originally released as unspecified
    vulnerabilities. This cannot be confirmed at the moment, however, one of
    the BIDs will be retired, if it turns out that the BIDs represent the same
    issues.

    14. DivX Player Skin File Directory Traversal Vulnerability
    BugTraq ID: 12332
    Remote: Yes
    Date Published: Jan 21 2005
    Relevant URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12332
    Summary:
    DivX Player is reported prone to a directory traversal vulnerability. The
    issue presents itself when DPS '.dps', archive files are processed.

    Ultimately an attacker may exploit this issue to save a script or
    executable file in an arbitrary location. This may lead to the execution
    of malicious code when the affected system is restarted. Alternatively,
    the attacker may overwrite a target file with the privileges of a user
    that is installing a malicious skin file.

    III. MICROSOFT FOCUS LIST SUMMARY
    ---------------------------------
    1. AW: IIS6 on W2k3 DCs (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/387976

    2. Dhcp security (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/387974

    3. IIS6 on W2k3 DCs (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/387973

    4. [Maybe Spam] Dhcp security (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/387964

    5. PGP and Outlook (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/387687

    6. SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #224 (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/387682

    7. local admin vs group policy and apps... (Thread)
    Relevant URL:

    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/88/387556

    IV. NEW PRODUCTS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
    ----------------------------------------
    1. CoreGuard Core Security System
    By: Vormetric
    Platforms: AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows 2000, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.vormetric.com/products/#overview
    Summary:

    CoreGuard System profile

    The CoreGuard System is the industry's first solution that enforces
    acceptable use policy for sensitive digital information assets and
    protects personal data privacy across an enterprise IT environment.
    CoreGuard's innovative architecture and completeness of technology
    provide a comprehensive, extensible solution that tightly integrates all
    the elements required to protect information across a widespread,
    heterogeneous enterprise network, while enforcing separation of duties
    between security and IT administration. At the same time, CoreGuard is
    transparent to users, applications and storage infrastructures for ease
    of deployment and system management.

    CoreGuard enables customers to:
    * Protect customer personal data privacy and digital information assets
    * Protect data at rest from unauthorized viewing by external attackers
    and unauthorized insiders
    * Enforce segregation of duties between IT administrators and security
    administration
    * Ensure host & application integrity * Block malicious code, including
    zero-day exploits

    2. KeyCaptor Keylogger
    By: Keylogger Software
    Platforms: MacOS, Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.keylogger-software.com/keylogger/keylogger.htm
    Summary:

    KeyCaptor is your solution for recording ALL keystrokes of ALL users on
    your computer! Now you have the power to record emails, websites,
    documents, chats, instant messages, usernames, passwords, and MUCH MORE!

    With our advanced stealth technology, KeyCaptor will not show in your
    processes list and cannot be stopped from running unless you say so!

    3. SpyBuster
    By: Remove Spyware
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.remove-spyware.com/spybuster.htm
    Summary:

    Our award winning spyware / adware scanner and removal software, SpyBuster
    will scan your computer for over 4,000 known spyware and adware
    applications. SpyBuster protects your computer from data stealing programs
    that can expose your personal information.

    SpyBuster scanning technology allows for a quick and easy sweep, so you
    can resume your work in minutes.

    4. FreezeX
    By: Faronics Technologies USA Inc
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.faronics.com/html/Freezex.asp
    Summary:

    FreezeX prevents all unauthorized programs, including viruses, keyloggers
    and spy ware from executing. Powerful and secure, FreezeX ensures that any
    new executable, program, or application that is downloaded, introduced via
    removable media or the network will never install

    5. NeoExec for Active Directory
    By: NeoValens
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.neovalens.com
    Summary:

    NeoExec® is an operating system extension for Windows 2000/XP that allows
    the setting of privileges at the application level rather than at the user
    level.

    NeoExec® is the ideal solution for applications that require elevated
    privileges to run as the privileges are granted to the application, not
    the user.

    NeoExec® is the only solution on the market capable of modifying at
    runtime the processes' security context -- without requiring a second
    account as with RunAs and RunAs-derived products.

    6. Secrets Protector v2.03
    By: E-CRONIS
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
    Relevant URL: http://www.e-cronis.com/download/sp.exe
    Summary:

    It's the end of your worries about top-secret data of your company, your
    confidential files or the pictures from the last party. All these will be
    hidden beyond the reach of ANY intruder and you will be the only one able
    to handle them. And what you want to delete will be DELETED. It is the
    ultimate security tool to protect your sensitive information on PC,
    meeting the three most important security issues: Integrity,
    Confidentiality and Availability. This product gives you the features of a
    "folder locker" and a "secure eraser".

    Your secret information is available only trough this software and there
    is no other mean to access it. The information is protected at file system
    level and it cannot be accidentally deleted or overwritten neither in Safe
    mode nor in other operating system. This program doesn't make your
    operating system unstable as other related product do and protects your
    information from being seen, altered or deleted by an unauthorized user
    with or without his wish. The program allows you to permanently erase your
    sensitive data using secure wiping methods leaving no trace of your
    information. Depending on the selected wiping method your data is
    unrecoverable using software or even hardware recovery techniques.

    V. NEW TOOLS FOR MICROSOFT PLATFORMS
    ------------------------------------
    1. Network Equipment Performance Monitor 2.2
    By: Nova Software, Inc.
    Relevant URL: http://www.nepm.net/
    Platforms: AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, True64 UNIX, UNIX, Windows
    2000, Windows NT, Windows XP
    Summary:

    NEPM is a very general, highly configurable, two part software system that
    monitors any type of logged data from IP networked equipment and reports
    it via E-mail and web pages. Current conditions and history from systems
    based on Windows NT/2000 and UNIX can be tracked and reported. Most major
    server, switch and router systems can be monitored, without running agents
    on the target systems.

    2. Etherchange v1.0
    By: Arne Vidstrom
    Relevant URL: http://www.ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/etherchange/
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP
    Summary:

    EtherChange can change the Ethernet address of the network adapters in
    Windows 2000 / XP.

    3. IPFront 1.0
    By: Hernán M. Racciatti
    Relevant URL: http://www.hernanracciatti.com.ar/ipfront/
    Platforms: Windows 2000
    Summary:

    IPFront is a small tool named which enables users to generate IPSec rules
    easily. It really speeds-up the process of hardening Windows 2000/2003 in
    Bastion Host Environment.

    Additionally, it allows to set-up IPSec exceptions, and enables a couple
    of TCP/IP Stack protections against DoSes.

    So, IPFront is nothing more than a small Frontend/GUI that writes small
    scripts that one can later execute from within IPFront, or externally, as
    simple script files, in other servers,

    4. Azure Web Log 1.5
    By: Azure Desktop
    Relevant URL: http://www.azuredesktop.com/download/awlog.zip
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows NT, Windows XP
    Summary:

    Log analyzer tells you all you want about your web site: What are the most
    popular pages and files on your site? How many visitors are there and
    where are they from? What browsers and OS they use? What is your sites
    traffic? Special features:Statistics for a year. Separate statistics for
    every page or file - daily hits for two last months, monthly hits for a
    year, referring site for particular page or file. Multiple site statistics
    support.

    5. Interface Traffic Indicator 1.2.3
    By: Carsten Schmidt
    Relevant URL: http://software.ccschmidt.de/#inftraffic
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP
    Summary:

    Interface Traffic Indicator, a graph utility to measure incoming and
    outgoing traffic on an interface in bits/sec, bytes/sec or utilization.
    Works on all SNMP-capable devices (computers, NICs, switches, routers,
    etc.) with adjustable poll intervall down to three seconds. You can use
    this programm in a professional network environment to monitor selected
    network interfaces (even backplane ports if the device provides the
    information) or you can monitor your home network or

    6. Colasoft Capsa 4.05
    By: Roy Luo
    Relevant URL: http://www.colasoft.com/
    Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 95/98, Windows XP
    Summary:

    Capsa is a powerful but easy to use network monitor and analyzer designed
    for packet decoding and network diagnosis. With the abilities of real time
    monitoring and data analyzing, you can capture and decode network traffic
    transmitted over local host and local network. Capsa has Packet Analysis
    Module and three advanced analysis modules: Email Analysis Module, Web
    Analysis Module and Transaction Analysis Module.

    VI. UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS
    ----------------------------
    To unsubscribe send an e-mail message to
    ms-secnews-unsubscribe@securityfocus.com from the subscribed address. The
    contents of the subject or message body do not matter. You will receive a
    confirmation request message to which you will have to answer.
    Alternatively you can also visit http://www.securityfocus.com/newsletters
    and unsubscribe via the website.

    If your email address has changed email listadmin@securityfocus.com and
    ask to be manually removed.

    VII. SPONSOR INFORMATION
    -----------------------

    Need to know what's happening on YOUR network? Symantec DeepSight Analyzer
    is a free service that gives you the ability to track and manage attacks.
    Analyzer automatically correlates attacks from various Firewall and
    network
    based Intrusion Detection Systems, giving you a comprehensive view of your
    computer or general network. Sign up today!

    http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/Symantec_sf-news_041130

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


  • Next message: Gerson Ricardo: "RESPONSE: Users "bypassing" Group Policy restrictions"

    Relevant Pages

    • SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #182
      ... Introducing the world's first and only complete Internal Security Gateway: ... Microsoft Windows XP Explorer.EXE Remote Denial of Service V... ... Apache Error Log Escape Sequence Injection Vulnerability ...
      (Focus-Microsoft)
    • SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #131
      ... MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY ... Advanced Poll Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability ... PHPNuke News Module Article.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability ...
      (Focus-Microsoft)
    • SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #171
      ... Better Management for Network Security ... GoodTech Telnet Server Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerabilit... ... ASPApp PortalAPP Remote User Database Access Vulnerability ...
      (Focus-Microsoft)
    • SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #237
      ... MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY ... JPortal Banner.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability ... Microsoft Windows Kernel Object Management Denial Of Service... ... Microsoft Windows Message Queuing Remote Buffer Overflow Vul... ...
      (Focus-Microsoft)
    • SecurityFocus Microsoft Newsletter #211
      ... MICROSOFT VULNERABILITY SUMMARY ... Microsoft Windows Kernel Local Denial of Service Vulnerabili... ... OCPortal Content Management System Remote File Include Vulne... ...
      (Focus-Microsoft)