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- December 23, 1999 - Security UPDATE Alert - Several new security
- are being reported in this alert. Georgio Guninski discovered
- yet another problem with Internet Explorer 5.x and cross frame
- navigation. No patch is available at this time.
-
- USSRLabs reported a denial of service condition in ZBServer v1.5.
-
- Microsoft reported a problem with Outlook 5, as well as Internet
- Explorer 4.5 on Macintosh platform. The Outlook problem could lead
- to a Trojan infection of the local system. The IE problem pertains
- to certificates. Patches are now available.
-
- Microsoft reported that Internet Information Server (IIS) is prone
- to reveal source code under certain conditions. Patches are now
- available.
-
- Microsoft also revealed problems with the way IIS handles escape
- character parsing. Patches are available for this problem as well.
-
- Norton Antivirus 2000 was reported to contain a serious buffer
- overflow condition. No vendor response is known at this time.
-
- Kevork Belian shows how easy it is to crash an SQL Server 7.0 using
- a very simple malformed packet. Microsoft has now issued a patch for
- this month old problem.
-
- For complete details on each of the discoveries, please visit our
- Web site at the URLs listed below:
-
- - IE 5.01 Cross Frame Navigation
- http://www.ntsecurity.net/scripts/loader.asp?iD=/security/ie58.htm
- - ZBServer v1.5 Denial of Service
- http://www.ntsecurity.net/scripts/loader.asp?iD=/security/zbnserver1.htm
- - Outlook 5 and IE 4.5 for Macintosh
- http://www.ntsecurity.net/scripts/loader.asp?iD=/security/outlook51.htm
- - IIS Reveals Source Code
- http://www.ntsecurity.net/scripts/loader.asp?iD=/security/iis4-2.htm
- - IIS Escape Char Processing
- http://www.ntsecurity.net/scripts/loader.asp?iD=/security/iis4-3.htm
- - Norton Antivirus 2000
- http://www.ntsecurity.net/scripts/loader.asp?iD=/security/nav20001.htm
- - SQL 7.0 Denial of Server
- http://www.ntsecurity.net/scripts/loader.asp?iD=/security/sql7-2.htm
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