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VRT Certified Rules Update 2006-06-15 |
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Written by snort.org
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Friday, 16 June 2006 |
The Sourcefire VRT has learned of multiple vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and the Microsoft Operating System.
Details: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-021 Internet Explorer does not correctly handle input to certain ActiveX controls. It is possible for an attacker to supply data of their choosing to the DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Light ActiveX control and execute code on the affected host.
Rules to detect attacks against this vulnerability are included in this rule pack and are identified as sids 6516 through 6519 and 6680 through 6687.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-024 Windows Media Player is vulnerable to a stack based buffer overflow condition that can be exploited by an attacker via a PNG image with a large chunk size.
Rules to detect attacks against this vulnerability are included in this rule pack and are identified as sids 6688 through 6701.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-025 Microsoft operating systems using Routing and Remote Access (RRAS) are vulnerable to a memory corruption problem that may be exploited by unauthenticated users. This may lead to code of the attackers choosing being run on an affected host.
Rules to detect attacks against this vulnerability are included in this rule pack and are identified as sids 6584 through 6679.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-032 The TCP/IP stack in Microsoft Windows systems is vulnerable to remote code execution. The stack does not correctly process loose and strict source code routing packets which may present an attacker with the opportunity to execute code of their choosing on an affected system.
Rules to detect attacks against this vulnerability are already available and are identified as sids 500 and 502.
Advisory: A detailed advisory as well as a complete list of modified and deleted rules is available at http://www.snort.org/rules/advisories/vrt-rules-2006-06-15.html.
Download Rules: These rules will be available to subscribers only until Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Subscribers can download the rules at http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/downloads.cgi |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 16 June 2006 )
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