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AW: MS Office 2007: Digital Signature does not protect Meta-Data

Dear Mr. Poehls,

yes, I can see your point and I agree that there's a risk for an unexperienced user to be spoofed by showing an Author, Time Stamps and State that could have been tampered with after the original owner has signed the document.
But in my opinion, this again emphasizes the need for sufficient knowledge of users about the way how applications may change the appearance of signed documents in a way not intended by the author at the time of signing and that's a question far beyond the considerations concerning the behavior of individual applications like MS Office.

In fact the visual clue you gave for a signed document in Word 2007 shows that in the context for those document properties there are also attributes like keywords, category and comments which are less misleading to the assumption those properties could be part of the signed document. So for example users of SharePoint Office Server are acquainted with the behavior of showing data that is managed and shown on server side in that area above the document. You should also mention that the label on the menu for showing this area reads "Prepare Document for Publishing" which also in my opinion gives a clue that this data is not part of the signed document.

Although I would appreciate if Word 2007 would give more visual clue for the fact that this data isn't part of the signed document, I still believe that this is not a major security issue.

Regards,

Re: MS Office 2007: Digital Signature does not protect Meta-Data

> server side in that area above the document.

This might be true, but in my opinion, still builds on either the
assumption
- that MetaData (like category) is not part of the
author's document (thus not covered by his digital
signature), or
- that users are educated/aquinted with having
information "with" a document that did not originate from the
author.


Re: AW: MS Office 2007: Digital Signature does not protect Meta-Data

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Java Runtime UTF-8 Decoder Smuggling Vector

one would assume will be addressed by J2SE 1.4.2 SR13 and Java SE 6 SR4
but no further information was provided by IBM.

** Disclosure History **

Initial disclosures to the Java Runtime author community;
  17 Jul - Apache Harmony Project
  18 Jul - OpenJDK Project
  21 Jul - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  28 Jul - HP
  31 Jul - Apple, Inc.

Re: MS Office 2007: Digital Signature does not protect Meta-Data

> part of the document and so they decided not to include it in the
> content protected by the certificate.

Considering that the MetaData not protected by the signature contains
among others:
1.) Author
2.) Dates of creation and last change
3.) State Information
I do think that most people, certainly the users, would feel that this
data belongs to the "document", and would be protected when the
"document" is signed.

Packet Storm - New Site

New core features:

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    Tagging exists all over the place

    Commenting is allowed everywhere


Multiple vulnerabilities in several IP camera products

       return r

    To encode a plain tgz file into a valid configuration archive, just apply
    the inverse of the "conf_decode" procedure.

[UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THE DEVICE]
By leveraging the aforementioned vulnerabilities, an attacker can easily obtain
the authentication credentials for the "admin" user as follows:

1. Authenticate as the hidden "productmaker" user.
2. Exploit the command-injection vulnerability to obtain the content of the

CORE-2010-0514: XnView MBM Processing Heap Overflow

. 2010-05-27:
Core Security Technologies notifies XnView of the vulnerability.

. 2010-05-27:
The XnView author acknowledges receipt of the notification.

. 2010-05-27:
Core sends a technical description of the vulnerability, and a
Proof-of-Concept file that triggers the bug.


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Uninformed is pleased to announce the release of its eighth volume. This 
volume includes 6 articles on a variety of topics:

  - Covert Communications: Real-time Steganography with RTP
    Author: I)ruid

  - Engineering in Reverse: PatchGuard Reloaded: A Brief Analysis of 
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Foxit Reader Multiple Vulnerabilities (CORE-2009-0218)

Release mode: Coordinated release


2. *Vulnerability Information*

Class: Authorization bypass, Buffer overflow
Remotely Exploitable: Yes
Locally Exploitable: No
Bugtraq ID: 34035
CVE Name: CVE-2009-0836, CVE-2009-0837


Trend micro - IWSVA/IWSS - Authorization module password leak

There is possbile get username and password from "Proxy-Authorization" header, which is not correctly removed when authorization header sends WMP.

Requirements:

- IWSVA/IWSS basic authorization on
- Client is using WMP (8-11) as video player
- Standalone proxy (if upstream proxy is used, "Proxy-Authorization" header is removed by this upstream proxy)

Bug:


MITKRB5-SA-2010-006 [CVE-2010-1322] KDC uninitialized pointer crash in authorization data handling

MITKRB5-SA-2010-006

MIT krb5 Security Advisory 2010-006
Original release: 2010-10-05

Topic: KDC uninitialized pointer crash in authorization data handling

CVE-2010-1322

CVSSv2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C/E:H/RL:OF/RC:C


[PT-2011-20] Authorization bypass vulnerability in OneOrZero AIMS

----------------------------------------------------------------------

     (PT-2011-20) Positive Technologies Security Advisory 

      Authorization bypass vulnerability in OneOrZero AIMS

----------------------------------------------------------------------

---[Vulnerable software]


Secunia Research: Joomla BookLibrary From Same Author Module "id" SQL Injection

====================================================================== 

                     Secunia Research 05/07/2010

  - Joomla BookLibrary From Same Author Module "id" SQL Injection -

====================================================================== 
Table of Contents

Affected Software....................................................1

Re: Vulnerability in CB Captcha for Joomla and Mambo

There are the next solutions for you:

1. Wait until developers of CB Captcha released new fixed version of the
plugin. They are examining this vulnerability for some time already (at
least Beat, developer of CB Captcha 2.x, because from two authors only he
answered me). But Beat told me, that they will be releasing the new fixed
version not very quickly (due to their standardized bugfixing process), so
users of CB Captcha will need to wait for new release.

2. Contact Beat and ask him when developers will be releasing new version of

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Ekoparty 4th edition is recruiting everyone who is interested in showing
their researches and/or develops in the field of Information
Security/Insecurity.

The author of a selected speech will be able to attend as event speaker.
In the case that a speech has shared authors, no more than 3 will be
allowed to present it.


*Where to send speeches*

netOffice Dwins 1.3 Remote code execution.

"netOffice Dwins is a free web based time tracking, timesheet, and
project management environment."

- Details

It is possible for an attacker to bypass authorization, upload arbitrary
PHP files, and then execute them on the server.

netOffice extracts all GET, POST, SESSION, SERVER, and COOKIE parameters
into the local variable space.  This has the same effect as turning
on register globals.  The code below is from includes/library.php.

AW: MS Office 2007: Digital Signature does not protect Meta-Data

Dear Mr. Poehls,

I think Microsoft does not consider metadata attached to a document as part of the document and so they decided not to include it in the content protected by the certificate. 

This fits the way we use attaching metadata during the process of categorization to enable retrieval of a document by means and taxonomies of the recipient, not of the author. If instead, as you seem to propose, metadata would be treated as part of the document, attaching the metadata needed for retrieval purposes would invalidate the signature of the document. 

Therefore this time I would go with Microsoft for their solution fits our needs and doesn't compromise the integrity protection of the document itself in any serious way. Just think of it as a sticker placed on the outside of a sealed envelope: You mustn't trust anything on the outside, just look inside the envelope to find the information you can rely on.

Yours
H.-D. Naujoks

Re: [SquirrelMail-Security] XSS in Squirrelmail plugin 'Virtual Keyboard' <= 0.9.1

The version with a fix was in fact sent to me personally, but not, as
the reporter claims, to all the "SquirrelMail developers."

That version was not up to spec in several regards, and so I
encouraged the plugin's author to work on a more up-to-date version.
The author responded with interest, but after another correspondence
regarding the quality of the plugin's code, the author failed to
reply.

As far as I was concerned, the issue was waiting for the author to

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Pritlog v0.821 CMS - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities

server setup and comes as default with most PHP5 installations. Just drop Pritlog into your server and it 
starts running. No separate installation is required.

Feature(s):
* WYSIWYG editor - nicEdit
* Admin interface (change site properties, add authors, change password)\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\'
* Easy translation. Language selection available in the admin panel. Language files must be created.
* Sticky Posts
* Integrated login system with registration
* Pretty Urls
* SEO Optimization

Multiple vulnerabilities in XAMPP (advisories #3 and #4)

Selected table.

SQL Injection:

Attack is conducted during access to admin panel of XAMPP - via
above-mentioned Insufficient Authorization vulnerability or via Insufficient
Authorization vulnerability which was found earlier, which I wrote about
(http://websecurity.com.ua/3220/).

At page http://site/xampp/adodb.php


MITKRB5-SA-2010-007 Multiple checksum handling vulnerabilities [CVE-2010-1324 CVE-2010-1323 CVE-2010-4020 CVE-2010-4021]

CVE-2010-4020

MIT krb5 (releases krb5-1.8 and newer) incorrectly accepts RFC 3961
key-derivation checksums using RC4 keys when verifying AD-SIGNEDPATH
and AD-KDC-ISSUED authorization data.

CVE-2010-4021

MIT krb5 KDC (release krb5-1.7 only) may issue tickets not requested
by a client, based on an attacker-chosen KrbFastArmoredReq.

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- Strategic Viewpoints
- Technical Challenges and Solutions
- Cyber Law

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December 18, 2009.


Xpdf - Integer overflow which causes heap overflow and NULL pointer derefernce.

Name:                      Xpdf - Integer overflow which causes heap overflow and NULL pointer derefernce
Author:                    Adam Zabrocki / HISPASEC (<pi3@itsec.pl> or <adam@hispasec.com>)
Date:                      July 06, 2009


   Issue:

Xpdf allows local and remote attackers to overflow buffer on heap via integer overflow vulnerability.
Xpdf is prone to NULL pointer dereference attack.


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