Do’s and Don’ts of Capacity Estimation for Database Monitoring Tools

When deploying a database monitoring tool, one of the first things you need to do is to determine the size of your deployment. So, where do you start? In a previous blog post I described the various aspects that can have an impact on the capacity requirements needed for a database monitoring...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-0674)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

PostgreSQL buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in intarray on large numbers parsing...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-805-1)

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...

Denial of Service (DoS)

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a string argument that represents a large number, as...

quagga DoS

Assertion on receiving prefix with large number of 4-byte AS numbers...

hMailServer IMAP Denial of Service Vulnerability

This host is running hMailServer, which is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodhmailserverimapdosvuln900109.nasl 5370 2017-02-20 15:24:26Z cfi $ Description: hMailServer IMAP Denial of Service Vulnerability Authors: Sharath S Copyright: Copyright C 2008...

ms-excel-numbers.txt

Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:02:41 +0100 From: "Tom Rowe" Subject: Excel bug I imagine this has been discussed some, but in case it hasn't. If you enter a number, say 123456789999 in Excel and save the file as comma delimited csv I think MS uses it will be saved as 1.234567E+11. Quite a few programs...