OMFW 2008 reflections
It was my great privilege to participate in OMFW this past Sunday afternoon in Baltimore. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to stay for the rest of DFRWS, the program looked pretty good (more on that below) and the folks that I've talked to who were there said it was a great conference. While I love SANS conferences, the academic in me also likes traditional conferences with peer-reviewed papers. Back to OMFW. AAron was able to bring together an outstanding group of folks interested in "memory forensics" and there was some spirited discussion among the participants along with some really outstanding talks/demos (hopefully, I'll be able to update this story soon with a link to the slides from the talks). It was also great to be able to put faces to folks who until then had only been handles in IRC or names on e-mail/blog posts in the past. Next year's DFRWS (and hopefully another OMFW) will be in Montreal. Keep your eye on it, there is a lot of good research going on there and don't forget about the SANS Forensics Summit coming up in Vegas in October.
A couple of the interesting papers from DFRWS that I need to read:
http://dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p26-dolan-gavitt.pdf
http://dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p33-morgan.pdf
http://dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p52-vanBaar.pdf
http://dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p112-cohen.pdf
http://dfrws.org/2008/proceedings/p128-thonnard.pdf
Update: (2008-08-17 15:30 UTC) The slides are here, and AAron has released volatility 1.3 (see Kevin's diary story).
WebEx ActiveX buffer overflow
Last night, Cisco (who now owns WebEx) posted a bulletin about a buffer overflow in the WebEx Meeting Manager ActiveX control. This one looks like it has the potential to be serious, so if you use WebEx, you are advised to read the Cisco advisory and update or set the killbit.
References:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20080814-webex.shtml
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2737 (not live yet)
Another MS update that may have escaped notice
Those of you running automatic updates may have noticed more updates being downloaded this week than what we mentioned in our Black Tuesday overview. Among the additional updates was the one descirbed in this advisory which had to do with killbits for 3rd party ActiveX components. The following comment from the overview sums it up nicely, so I'll repeat it here (thanx, anonymous):
Microsoft also released 953839, which is an updated variant of MS08-032 (950760). This is the ActiveX Killbits update. This release only adds 3rd-party killbits to the list, so they didn't give it a bulletin. But you still want to deploy it . . .
Joomla user password reset vulnerability being actively exploited
We've received reports from several readers (thanx, Ronaldo and anonymous) that they have seen successful exploitation of the Joomla user password reset vulnerability announced on 12 Aug (with an exploit posted to milw0rm at about the same time). If you have not yet upgraded to 1.5.6, do so ASAP
References:
http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/241-20080801-core-password-remind-functionality.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#joomla_password_reset_vulnerability
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