prevent crashing when running out of database connections

One common total crash for Confluence is when it does run out of database connection. Any reliable web application should be able to resist to a peak in number of request and not to fully crash when this happens. This is also a security issue because it means that anyone could easily bring the...

EmbryoCore CMS 1.03 SQL Injection

Title: ====== EmbryoCore CMS v1.03 - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2012-04-14 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=503 VL-ID: ===== 503 Introduction: ============= EmbryoCore is a blog / content management system written using PHP5 s newest feature...

iStockphoto.com's Ravenous Fail Octopus of Death

“Menacing” is probably the word that best describes istockphoto.com’s choice of graphics to adorn its 503 “service unavailable” message. It’s an octopus…that much is clear…but it’s blue. And has a maw full of teeth and dripping blood – presumably from the poor creature it’s just decapitated. Is...

symfony 1.3.5 and 1.4.5

The symfony core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of symfony versions 1.3.5 and 1.4.5. Read on for the details. Security Fix A vulnerability was discovered in Doctrine and Propel form classes that allowed a user to update a record other than the one presented in the form. The...

Ubuntu Update for mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities USN-503-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-503-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5031.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for mozilla-thunderbird vulnerabilities USN-503-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-503-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...