Public Safety Canada Daily Infrastructure Report

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DIR10-126 - July 2, 2010

News

CCIRC releases advisory AV10-019: Critical Security Update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat
On June 30, Public Safety Canada's Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV10-019 to bring attention to an accelerated release of the quarterly update of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.3.3 and 8.2.3, which addresses CVE-2010-1297. Multiple critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. They could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document. These issues are caused by memory corruptions, invalid pointers, uninitialized memory, array-indexing and use-after-free errors when processing malformed data within a PDF document. This is a follow up to CCIRC alert AL10-002 released on June 11. CCIRC recommends that departments liaise with the administrators/maintainers of the network service to identify affected products and assess the need to apply the appropriate updates and/or workarounds.
Source article – Public Safety Canada, June 30, 2010

CCIRC provides a list of recent and archived security publications.

Chalk River NRU reactor to resume production at end of July
On June 30, the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited's (AECL) reported that the Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) completed its inspections and assessments of the National Research Universal (NRU) reactor weld repairs and the vessel’s fitness-for-service. The TSSA inspection was signed off as the final qualification of the vessel repair. Based on the Non-Destructive Examinations, as well as the visual inspections of the repair regions and the successful leak check, AECL has concluded that the NRU vessel can now be returned-to-service. AECL will be appearing before the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in a public hearing on July 5 to consider AECL’s application for the restart of NRU. It is estimated that NRU will resume isotope production by the end of July.
Source article - Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, June 30, 2010

Bison anthrax outbreak in Northwest Territories
On July 1, CBC reported that Government wildlife teams in the Northwest Territories were working to control an anthrax outbreak about 80 kilometres southeast of Fort Resolution, south of Yellowknife. Seven bison carcasses in the Slave River Lowlands tested positive for the disease. According to officials, there are about 600 bison in the area, according to officials. No humans have contracted anthrax in the Northwest Territories, and the area in question has been closed to the public.
Source article – CBC, July 1, 2010 

Cyber tracking

CCIRC security publications
Over the course of the past 48 hours, CCIRC has released the following security publications, which provide details on specific vulnerabilities and suggested mitigation strategies:

• AV10-019: Critical Security Update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

CCIRC provides a list of recent and archived security publications.

Threat and vulnerability monitoring
CCIRC has not detected any new significant threats or vulnerabilities. Personnel responsible for information, systems and network security should continue to monitor and apply appropriate security precautions.

Relevant links

Below are links to sites related to Canada’s critical infrastructure.

Food Recalls and Allergy Alerts
Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Health Advisories, Warnings and Recalls
Health Canada

Disease Outbreak News
World Health Organization

Travel Health Notices
Public Health Agency of Canada

Transportation - Safety
Transport Canada

Travel Reports and Warnings
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Weather warnings for Canada
Environment Canada

Earthquakes
Earthquakes Canada

Hurricanes
Canadian Hurricane Centre

Hurricanes
U.S. National Hurricane Center

News Releases
Infrastructure Canada

 
 

Note to readers

Public Safety Canada collects information related to cyber and physical threats to, and events concerning, Canadian critical infrastructure. This allows Public Safety Canada to monitor and analyze threats and to issue alerts, advisories and other information products.

Links to sites not under the control of the Government of Canada are provided solely for the convenience of users. The Government of Canada is not responsible for the accuracy, currency or the reliability of the content. The Government of Canada does not offer any guarantee in that regard and is not responsible for the information found through these links, nor does it endorse the sites and their content.

Public Safety Canada respects the Official Languages Act and is committed to ensuring that information products are available in both English and French. However, users should be aware that some links direct users to sites of organizations or other entities that are not subject to the Official Languages Act and that these sources are only available in the language in which they are written.