CVE-2010-3350

bareFTP 0.3.4 places a zero-length directory name in the LDLIBRARYPATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in the current working directory...

chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

Google Chrome Releases reports: Fixed in 15.0.874.121: 103259 High CVE-2011-3900: Out-of-bounds write in v8. Credit to Christian Holler. Fixed in 15.0.874.120: 100465 High CVE-2011-3892: Double free in Theora decoder. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG. 100492 100543 Medium CVE-2011-3893: Out of bounds...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.11/ 1.9.1.14) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...

Adobe Reader X With Protected Mode Due in November

Adobe will finally release the new version of its Reader software–which will include the much-anticipated Protected Mode security feature–next month. Adobe Reader X will include a number of other new features in addition to the sandbox feature. Adobe officials have been discussing Protected Mode...

Fedora 12 : ghostscript-8.71-16.fc12 (2010-14633)

This package fixes a security problem CVE-2010-2055 in ghostscript whereby gs uses the current working directory to look for certain types of system file. This has been fixed by changing the default behaviour. Additionally, several other bugs have been fixed: scripts defining GSEXECUTABLE have be...

Oracle Fixes 29 Bugs in Huge Java Update

Oracle has released a slew of patches for its Java platform, fixing a total of 29 bugs in Java SE and Java for Business. Several of the flaws allow a remote attacker to take complete control of a vulnerable machine. Java is among the more widely deployed technologies on the Web and it is now a...

CVE-2010-3703

The PostScriptFunction::PostScriptFunction function in poppler/Function.cc in the PDF parser in poppler 0.8.7 and possibly other versions up to 0.15.1, and possibly other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a PDF file that triggers an uninitialized...

Fedora 13 : ghostscript-8.71-16.fc13 (2010-14640)

This package fixes a security problem CVE-2010-2055 in ghostscript whereby gs uses the current working directory to look for certain types of system file. This has been fixed by changing the default behaviour. Additionally, several other bugs have been fixed: scripts defining GSEXECUTABLE have be...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaThunderbird (MozillaThunderbird-3154)

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 was updated to version 3.0.7, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-49 / CVE-2010-3169: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 7101)

This update brings Mozilla Firefox to the 3.5.11 security release. It fixes following security issues : - Several memory safety bugs in habe been identified in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs show evidence of memory corruption under certain...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 6979)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.5.9 fixing lots of bugs and security issues. The following security issues were fixed : - Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes showed...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 7083)

Mozilla Firefox has been updated to version 3.5.10, fixing various bugs and security issues. - Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it was possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random. Since the pseudo-random number generator was only seeded once per browsing session,...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Python (ZYPP Patch Number 6946)

This update of python has a copy of libxmlrpc that is vulnerable to denial of service bugs that can occur while processing malformed XML input. CVE-2009-2625: CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 moderate AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control CWE-264 CVE-2009-3720: CVSS v2 Ba...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla XULrunner (ZYPP Patch Number 6971)

Mozilla XULRunner was updated to version 1.9.0.19 fixing lots of bugs and security issues. The following security issues were fixed : - Mozilla developers identified and fixed several stability bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these crashes show...

SuSE9 Security Update : the Linux kernel (YOU Patch Number 12646)

This updates the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 kernel to fix various security issues and some bugs. The following security bugs were fixed : - Incorrect buffer handling in the biarch-compat buffer handling could be used by local attackers to gain root privileges. This problem affects foremost...

openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2010:0632-2)

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 was updated to version 2.0.8, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-49 / CVE-2010-3169: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based product...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2010:0632-1)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.6.10, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-49 / CVE-2010-3169: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. So...

openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2010:0632-2)

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 was updated to version 2.0.8, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-49 / CVE-2010-3169: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based product...

Bug Count Just One Problem for Facebook Foe Diaspora

Saying that you want to take on the world’s biggest social network is the kind of thing that puts a big target on your back. At least that’s what the ambitious young crew behind Diaspora, an open source alternative to Facebook, found out this week. The Diaspora team pushed out an early as in...

Google Fixes 10 Bugs in New Chrome Release

Less than two weeks after releasing version 6.0 of its Chrome browser, Google has pushed out another Chrome release, which includes fixes for 10 security bugs, seven of which are rated either critical or high. Google Chrome 6.0.472.59 comes out just 12 days after the last Chrome release, which...