Sourcefire® Delivers Same Day Protection for Microsoft Tuesday Vulnerabilities

Sourcefire® Delivers Same Day Protection for Microsoft Tuesday Vulnerabilities

Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team Delivers Protection for Today’s Microsoft Vulnerabilities

Open source innovator and SNORT® creator, Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), a leader in network intrusion prevention, today announced that the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) has delivered rules to protect Sourcefire customers and Snort users from three Microsoft vulnerabilities announced today. These vulnerabilities impact Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, MSN Messenger, and Windows Live Messenger.

“As the number of new vulnerabilities continue to grow on a daily basis with no signs of slowing down, the Sourcefire VRT strives to ensure that Sourcefire customers and Snort users are protected from exploits to these system weaknesses,” said Matt Watchinski, Director of the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team. “In addition to our immediate delivery of rules to protect against the latest vulnerabilities, Sourcefire’s innovative solutions allow users to take a proactive approach to securing their networks so that even unknown threats pose minimal risk to their most critical assets.”

Following Microsoft’s disclosure earlier today, the Sourcefire VRT created, tested and delivered Snort rules designed to detect attacks targeting the Microsoft vulnerabilities listed below. These new rules are included in the latest Sourcefire Security Enhancement Update (SEU) released today.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-051—Critical Microsoft Agent vulnerability could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on an affected Microsoft Windows system.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-052—Important Visual Studio vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Crystal Reports RPT file.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-054—Important MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger vulnerability could allow remote code execution when a user accepts a video chat invitation from an attacker. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of the affected system.

About the Sourcefire VRT

The Sourcefire VRT is a group of leading edge intrusion detection and prevention experts working to proactively discover, assess and respond to the latest trends in hacking activities, intrusion attempts and vulnerabilities. This team is also supported by the vast resources of the open source Snort community, making it the largest group dedicated to advances in the network security industry.

About Sourcefire

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), Snort creator and open source innovator, is a world leader in Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions. Sourcefire is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach – Discover, Determine, Defend – to securing real networks. The Sourcefire 3D System is the first to unify IPS, NBA, NAC and Vulnerability Assessment technologies under the same management console. This ETM approach equips customers with an efficient and effective layered security defense – protecting network assets before, during and after an attack. Through the years, Sourcefire has been consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike – with more than 30 awards and accolades. Recently, Sourcefire was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Network Intrusion Prevention System Appliances 2H06” report, and the Sourcefire 3D System was named “Best Security Solution” at the 2006 SC Magazine Awards. Today, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and network security intelligence. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit http://www.sourcefire.com.

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