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Jason Meserve provides up-to-the-minute news on vendor security alerts and fixes.
DNS hole prompts synchronized patching effort by IT vendors
In a rare synchronized security move, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and other IT vendors today released software patches
aimed at addressing a fundamental design flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol used to direct traffic on the Internet.
Computerworld, 07/08/2008.
A list of all vunlnerable systems can be found in this US-CERT advisory.
More DNS updates:
Mandriva
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Microsoft confirms active Word attacks
Only hours after it fixed nine vulnerabilities in several of its programs, Microsoft Corp. late Tuesday confirmed that attackers
are exploiting an unpatched bug in Word. Now, some versions of Word and Access are vulnerable with no patch in sight. Computerworld,
07/08/2008.
Microsoft advisory
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Two new updates from Gentoo:
Poppler (user-assisted code execution)
PCRE (buffer overflow, code execution)
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Three new patches from rPath:
Ruby (buffer overflow, code execution)
Firefox (multiple flaws)
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Three new fixes from Mandriva:
OpenOffice.org for Mandriva 2008.1 (integer overflow, code execution)
OpenOffice.org for older version of Mandriva (integer overflow, code execution)
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Today's malware news:
Malware Install Hides Behind Fake Blue Screen Of Death
Get a file called "ieupdater.exe"? If the file is allowed to execute on the PC, you may well see the dreaded Blue Screen Of
Death (or BSOD to its friends). However, all is not what it seems. While the end-user is faced with the horrors of the BSOD,
behind the scenes Malware is installing by the bucketload. The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog, 07/09/2008.
Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer Exploited in Neosploit Wrapper
I have not managed to confirm that this is a completely new version of Neosploit, but in effect the attack consists of an
encrypted block that is similar to some of the Mpack variants. Symantec Security Response blog, 07/09/2008.
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From the interesting reading department:
Internet bug fix spawns backlash from hackers
Hackers are a skeptical bunch, but that doesn't bother Dan Kaminsky, who got a lot of flack from his colleagues in the security
research community after claiming to have discovered a critical bug in the Internet's infrastructure. IDG News Service, 07/10/2008.
Jason Meserve is multimedia editor at Network World.
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