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VRT Certified Rules Update 2006-06-27 |
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Written by snort.org
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
The Sourcefire VRT has continued research into a vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Operating System Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) and a vulnerability affecting Microsoft Excel.
Details:
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 6714 through 7001.
Microsoft Security Advisory (921365)
Microsoft Excel contains a programming error that can allow a remote attacker to run code of their choosing on an affected host system via the processing of a malformed .xls file. The issue is present in the dynamic link library file HLINK.DLL which handles Universal Resource Identifiers (URI) embedded in office documents.
A rule to detect attacks against this vulnerability is included in this rule pack and is identified as sid 7002.
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-2006-06-27.html.
Download Rules:
These rules will be available to subscribers only until Sunday, July 2, 2006. Subscribers can download the rules at http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/downloads.cgi. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 June 2006 )
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