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Several security updates for Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS have been released by Canonical. The first fix relates to Dovecot which could have been made to expose sensitive information over the network because it incorrectly validated certificate hostnames when being used as a IM... |
9 December 2011
10:40 GMT |
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The Ruby on Rails development team has released security updates for several versions of the web application framework in order to address serious vulnerabilities.The newly released 2.3.14, 3.0.10 and 3.1.0RC6 versions address a SQL injection flaw in the quote_table_name method which could be exploited to inject arbi... |
18 August 2011
08:26 GMT |
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Mozilla has released security updates for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey in order to address critical vulnerabilities in the two products that could be exploited to compromise computers.The newly released Thunderbird 6, Thunderbird 3.1.12 and SeaMonkey 2.3 fix a total of thirteen security flaws in the Gecko layout engine ... |
17 August 2011
06:19 GMT |
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Adobe has released security updates for Flash Media Server, Photoshop CS5 and RoboHelp in order to address critical security vulnerabilities in the products.The flaw patched in Flash Media Server (FMS) can be exploited by an attacker to achieve a denial of service condition and prevent legitimate users from accessing... |
10 August 2011
12:15 GMT |
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Apple has released new versions of its Safari browser for Windows and Mac addressing a number of 56 vulnerabilities many of which allow for remote code execution.As usually, a large number of vulnerabilities were patched in the WebKit layout engine and were reported downstream by researchers working through Google�... |
20 July 2011
13:52 GMT |
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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates for the BIND DNS daemon in order to address two serious vulnerabilities that can crash servers."A defect in the affected BIND 9 versions allows an attacker to remotely cause the "named" process to exit using a specially crafted packet. This defect af... |
5 July 2011
14:20 GMT |
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The phpMyAdmin development team has released critical updates for the popular web-based database management tool in order to patch several vulnerabilities that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.The new 3.3.10.2 and 3.4.3.1 versions address a total of four security issues rated as highly critical by vulnerabi... |
5 July 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Mozilla won't provide any more security updates for Firefox 4.0, because 5.0 is considered a replacement and officially starts the new Chrome-like six-week development cycle.According to a discussion about Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 support on the mozilla.dev.planning mailing list, Firefox 4.0.1 was the only planned up... |
24 June 2011
02:53 GMT |
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In addition to patches for Flash Player, Shockwave Player, Reader and Acrobat, Adobe also released security updates for its LiveCycle Data Services, LiveCycle ES, BlazeDS and ColdFusion products this week.As far as ColdFusion is concerned, two vulnerabilities rated as "important" have been patched by the newly releas... |
16 June 2011
07:15 GMT |
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Adobe is expected to release scheduled security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat next Tuesday in order to patch critical security vulnerabilities.Updates will be made available for Adobe Reader X (10.0.1) for Windows and Adobe Reader X (10.0.3) for Macintosh; Adobe Reader 9.4.3 and earlier versions for Windows an... |
10 June 2011
11:55 GMT |
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Six Apart, the company developing Movable Type, has released updates for the popular blogging platform in order to patch a zero-day vulnerability used by hackers to break into the PBS.org website two weeks ago.At the end of May, LulzSec, a hacker group that recently captured headlines with attacks against Sony and ot... |
9 June 2011
09:45 GMT |
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Adobe has released security updates for several products, including Audition, Flash Media Server and RoboHelp, which address critical vulnerabilities that could compromise the systems they run on.Two flaws were patched in Adobe Flash Media Server (FMS) for Windows and Linux, one of which could be exploited by attacke... |
16 May 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Research In Motion has released security updates for BlackBerry OS and the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software in order to address two moderate and high risk vulnerabilities.The vulnerability affecting BlackBerry devices consists of a denial of service condition that can crash the browser application.It affec... |
13 January 2011
08:57 GMT |
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The newly released 3.1.5 and 3.0.9 versions of Mozilla Thunderbird, address a total of eleven vulnerabilities affecting the popular open source email client, including eight that are rated critical.Three memory corruption vulnerabilities (CVE-2010-3176, CVE-2010-3175, CVE-2010-3174) that could potentially be exploite... |
20 October 2010
13:49 GMT |
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Google has released a new stable version of its Chrome browser (7.0.517.41), which in addition to hundreds of bug fixes and new features, addresses several security issues of critical to low severity.With Chrome 7.0.517.41, Google has made good on its promise to deliver a new stable version of the browser every six w... |
20 October 2010
05:26 GMT |
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Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.11 and Firefox 3.5.14 in order to address multiple vulnerabilities, many of which are several rated critical.A total of nine security advisories were published. Five have a critical impact, two high, one moderate and one low.One advisory (MFSA 2010-71) covers two unsafe library loadin... |
20 October 2010
04:08 GMT |
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RealNetworks has published a security advisory disclosing critical vulnerabilities in its RealPlayer line of products, many of which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code.The problem affects versions older than RealPlayer SP 1.1.5 and RealPlayer 2.1.3 for Windows. The latest stable and unaffected version of Real... |
19 October 2010
03:23 GMT |
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Oracle has released a major batch of security fixes to address a total of 85 vulnerabilities, that affect software from twenty of its product families.The Oracle Database Server was affected by seven vulnerabilities, one of which is remotely exploitable without authorization.The affected Oracle Database versions are ... |
13 October 2010
12:21 GMT |
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Following Microsoft's announcement that it is preparing a record number of security fixes for next week, Oracle also revealed plans to release a monster batch of patches.Three days ago Microsoft announced through its Advance Notification Service that the upcoming "Patch Tuesday" on October 12 will see the releas... |
9 October 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Adobe announced October 5 as a definitive release date for its upcoming Adobe Reader and Acrobat quarterly security updates, which will address two zero-day vulnerabilities.On September 8, Adobe confirmed that a critical arbitrary code execution exists in the latest versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat, after discove... |
1 October 2010
09:39 GMT |
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QuickTime 7.6.8 for Windows has been released to address two critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities, one of which was being actively exploited in the wild.The first vulnerability, identified as CVE-2010-1818, is located in the QuickTime ActiveX control and can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code by tric... |
16 September 2010
06:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has released security updates to address eleven vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Information Services (IIS) and Microsoft Office, including four of critical impact.It's worth noting that none of the security bulletins rated as critical apply to the Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 products."This... |
15 September 2010
05:36 GMT |
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Adobe has released updates to its Reader and Acrobat products in order to address two critical vulnerabilities that can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.One of the patched bugs is an integer overflow flaw identified as CVE-2010-2862, that was publicly disclosed last month by security researcher Charlie Mille... |
19 August 2010
15:53 GMT |
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March 2007 will have to remain a good memory, as the first Microsoft security sabbatical month in over two years, because in April and May the Redmond Company has regained its momentum. Following the past month - when Microsoft made available an out of band security update addressing the critical Windows Animated Cur... |
9 May 2007
03:40 GMT |
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Mobile phones carry nowadays a great deal of personal information as to more efficiently respond to the users' needs. This is even clearer, as many cellulars have functions that substitute those of an Internet connected PC. This is why Nokia has launched today two new IP security appliances: Nokia IP290 and Nok... |
30 April 2007
10:45 GMT |
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Is Windows Vista bulletproof? In fact, is Windows, or Office? Well, in March 2007, Microsoft's answer is positive in this respect. Just go ahead and remember March 13, 2007 because it marks an event that you rarely see out of Microsoft. Zero security updates. Is it a coincidence that the Redmond Company has not ... |
14 March 2007
03:50 GMT |
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