Multiple vulnerabilities in Content Rating (content_rating)

It has been discovered that the extension "Content Rating" contentrating is susceptible to Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection. Release Date: January 9, 2015 Bulletin Update: February 23, 2015 added CVEs Component Type: Third party extension. This extension is not a part of the TYPO3 default...

Microsoft Shuts Down Patch Tuesday Advanced Notifications

Microsoft today pulled the plug on its Advanced Notification Service ANS, offering it going forward only to paying Premier customers. ANS preceded the release of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins; on the Thursday prior, Microsoft would provide users via its security website a...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Flash, Reader, Acrobat, and ColdFusion

Adobe has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Flash, Reader, Acrobat, and ColdFusion. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take over an affected system. US-CERT recommends users and administrators review Adobe Security Bulletins...

December 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Advance Notification

Microsoft made patch news on two fronts last month with an unusual emergency patch for a critical vulnerability in Kerberos, and for a missing fix for an Exchange bug that was promised in its November advanced notification. In the December advance notification, released today, an elevation...

Project Zero Patch Tuesday roundup, November 2014

Posted by Chris Evans, Registrar of Bugs It’s been about a week since Patch Tuesday, and the Project Zero reports mentioned in the various advisories are now public. We won’t always be writing a Patch Tuesday roundup, but we often will when we believe there is a sufficiently varied and interestin...

MS14-071: Vulnerability in Windows Audio Service Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3005607)

The remote Windows host is affected by a vulnerability in the Windows Audio service component that allows privilege escalation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges but not execute code. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description...

November 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

A busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday arrived today with an extra sense of urgency and a complication. Among 14 bulletins, four of which are rated critical by Microsoft, is a patch for the OLE zero-day vulnerability being used in a number of targeted attacks. The zero-day is being spread via email...

Microsoft OneNote Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (2977201)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-048 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE ...

August 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

Microsoft today released its monthly Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins, and the top priority is another cumulative update for Internet Explorer; this one patches 26 vulnerabilities, including one that’s been publicly reported, Microsoft said, and is likely being exploited. All of them are rated...

Microsoft Tuesday Update to Patch Critical Windows and Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities

Today Microsoft has released its Advance Notification for the month of August 2014 Patch Tuesday Updates releasing a total of nine security Bulletins, which will address several vulnerabilities in its products, out of which two are marked critical and rest are important in severity. The latest...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities (2962482)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS14-029. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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 CPE =...

The April 2014 Security Updates

T. S. Elliot once said, “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” So as we put one season to bed, let’s start another by looking at the April security updates. Today, we release four bulletins to address 11 CVEs in...

Assessing risk for the April 2014 security updates

Today we released four security bulletins addressing 11 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other two have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

Unpatched Bugs, Windows XP End of Life and Public Disclosure

Windows XP security support ends Tuesday and until now, most of the public hand-wringing over XP’s end-of-life has been about the potential for malware outbreaks against unpatched vulnerabilities that have been stockpiled by hackers anxiously awaiting April 8, 2014. But what about vulnerabilities...

Advance Notification Service for the March 2014 Security Bulletin Release

Today we provide advance notification for the release of five bulletins for March 2014, two rated Critical and thee rated Important in severity. These updates address issues in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight. The update provided in MS14-012 fully addresses the issue first...

February 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

The expected continued respite from deploying Internet Explorer patches was apparently a mirage as Microsoft changed course from last Thursday’s advance notification and added two more bulletins to the February 2014 Patch Tuesday security updates, including the first IE rollup of 2014. IE had...

February 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

February’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday promises to be a relatively straightforward set of bulletins, but more noteworthy is that it’s the same day Microsoft officially deprecates the MD5 hash algorithm. Announced last August, Microsoft will officially restrict the use of digital certificates with MD5...

Assessing risk for the January 2014 security updates

Today we released four security bulletins addressing six CVE’s. All four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Most likely attack vector Max Bulletin...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its December 2013 release will contain 11 bulletins. These bulletins will have severity ratings of critical and important and will be for Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync, Internet Explorer, Microsoft...

Clarification on Security Advisory 2896666 and the ANS for the November 2013 Security Bulletin Release

Today, we’re providing advance notification for the release of eight bulletins, three Critical and five Important, for November 2013. The Critical updates address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows, and the Important updates address issues in Windows and Office. While this...