India Orders Security Certification for Government Websites After CBI Hack

India has mandated that all government ministries and departments secure their websites with proper certification. This directive follows the hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI website by a group calling themselves the "Pakistani Cyber Army." The National Informatics Centre has be...

RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry Enterprise Server

RIM has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry attachment service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and...

Microsoft Releases December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, SharePoint, and Exchange as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate with elevated...

Google Releases Chrome 8.0.552.224

Google has released Chrome 8.0.552.224 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome Releases blog entry and apply any...

RealNetworks Releases Security Update for RealPlayer

RealNetworks, Inc. has released an update for RealPlayer to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the RealNetworks notice released on December 10, 2010 and appl...

FreeAmp 2.0.7 - .m3u Local Buffer Overflow

FreeAmp 2.0.7 - .m3u Local Buffer Overflow Exploit Title: FreeAmp 2.0.7 .m3u Buffer Overflow - Egghunter Google Dork: N/A Date: 11/12/2010 Author: zota Thanks to Andrew; [email protected] Software Link:...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6.13

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.13 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate with elevated privileges, spoof the location bar, or operate with elevated privileges. The Mozilla foundation has also released...

WordPress Releases Version 3.0.3

WordPress has released WordPress 3.0.3 to address a vulnerability. Execution of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to operate with elevated privileges. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the WordPress Codex document for version 3.0.3 and apply any necessary updates to hel...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its December release will contain 17 bulletins. Two of these bulletins will have a severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. Fourteen of the bulletins will have a severity rati...

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.9

Apple has released QuickTime 7.6.9 to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple article...

WordPress Releases WordPress 3.0.2

WordPress has released WordPress 3.0.2 to address a vulnerability that may allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, to fix multiple software bugs, and to provide additional security enhancements. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the WordPress bl...

Internet Systems Consortium BIND Vulnerabilities

The Internet Systems Consortium ISC has released three advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting BIND. The first advisory, CVE-2010-3613, addresses a vulnerability in BIND versions 9.6.2 to 9.6.2-P2, 9.6-ESV to 9.6-ESV-R2, and 9.70 to 9.7.2-P2. This vulnerability exists when cache...

Awstats Configuration File Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Awstats is prone to an arbitrary command-execution vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user- supplied input. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands in the context of the webserver process. This may help...

Potential WikiLeaks Phishing Scams

In the past, US-CERT has received reports of phishing scams and malware campaigns related to topics that are of high-interest to the U.S. Government or news media, such as the WikiLeaks website. Users' systems have been compromised by receiving and accessing phishing emails with subject lines tha...

VMware Releases Security Patch for ESX

VMware has released a security patch for ESX to address a vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a local user to gain additional privileges on the affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review VMware knowledgebase article 1029397 and apply any necessa...

Apple Releases iOS 4.2

Apple has released iOS 4.2 for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, initiate a call, cause a denial-of-service condition, gain system privileges, or obtain sensitive information...

Apple Patches Safari Browser Holes

Apple on Thursday issued updates for its Safari Web browser to fix more than two dozen vulnerabilities that left the browser open to Web-based attacks. The company released Safari versions 5.0.3 and 4.1.3 for Mac OS X and Windows XP SP2, Vista and Windows 7. The updated versions fix 27 reported...

Apple Releases Safari 5.0.3 and 4.1.3

Apple has released Safari 5.0.3 and 4.1.3 to address multiple vulnerabilities in the Safari and WebKit packages. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple article HT4455...

Adobe Flash Player Flash Content Parsing Code Execution

Added: 11/16/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3654 BID: 44504 OSVDB: 68932 Background Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents. Problem Adobe Reader 9.x is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability as a result of parsing flash content by the bundled Adobe Flash Player. Resolution Apply...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Reader and Acrobat

Adobe has released security updates for Reader and Acrobat for Windows and Macintosh. These updates address multiple vulnerabilities including those described in security advisory APSA10-05, a recent Adobe PSIRT blog entry, and security bulletin APSB10-26. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities ma...