Tuesday, August 9, 2011

VRT Rule Update for 08/09/2011, MS Tuesday, and Adobe Coverage

Join us as we welcome the introduction of the newest rule release for today from the VRT. In this release we introduce 33 new rules and make modifications to 6 additional rules.

There were no changes made to the snort.conf in this release.

In VRT's rule release:
The Sourcefire VRT is aware of vulnerabilities affecting products from Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Inc.

Details:
Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-057:
Microsoft Internet Explorer contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 19666 through 19672.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-058:
The Microsoft implementation of DNS contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 19677.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-059:
The Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.

Rules to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 19673 and 19674.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-060:
Microsoft Visio contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 19675 and 19676.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-061:
Microsoft Remote Desktop Web Access contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to execute a cross site scripting attack.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 19665.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-062:
The Microsoft Remote Access Service NDISTAPI driver contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to gain privileges on an affected system.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 19679.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-063:
The Microsoft Windows Client/Server Run-time Subsytem contains a programming error that may allow a remote attacker to gain privileges on an affected system.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 19680.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-064:
The Microsoft implementation of the TCP/IP stack contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) against an affected system.

A rule to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 19678.

Additionally, a previously released rule will detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities and has been updated with the appropriate reference information. It is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 17410.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-066:
A programming error in the Microsoft .NET framework may lead to unauthorized information disclosure.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 19694.

Microsoft Security Advisory MS11-067:
Microsoft Report Viewer contains a programming error that may lead to unauthorized information disclosure.

A rule to detect attacks targeting this vulnerability is included in this release and is identified with GID 1, SID 19681.

Adobe Security Bulletin APSB11-21:
Adobe Flash Player contains programming errors that may allow a remote attacker to execute code on an affected system.

Rules to detect attacks targeting these vulnerabilities are included in this release and are identified with GID 1, SIDs 19682 through 19693.

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