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...

Evolving Microsoft's Advance Notification Service in 2015

Our Advance Notification Service ANS was created more than a decade ago as part of Update Tuesday to broadly communicate in advance, about the security updates being released for Microsoft products and services each month. Over the years, technology environments and customer needs have evolved,...

Advance Notification Service for the December 2014 Security Bulletin Release

Today, we provide advance notificationfor the release of seven Security Bulletins. Three of these updates are rated Critical and four are rated as Important in severity. These updates are for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer IE, Office and Exchange. As per our monthly process, we’ve scheduled...

Microsoft to End Email Security Notifications

Update: Microsoft today has reversed course on its decision to suspend security email notifications, and will resume doing so on Thursday. The original decision, made in response to Canada’s antispam law set to go into effect tomorrow, was announced on Friday. This afternoon, however, a Microsoft...

Anonymous Leaks Apple UDIDs Following Alleged Hack of FBI

UPDATE–The Antisec arm of hacktivist group Anonymous published one million unique device identifier numbers, or UDIDs, for Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads, on Monday night. The group alleges the slew of information was swiped from a laptop belonging to the FBI earlier this year. In a...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Shockwave DIRAPI LCTX Chunck Memory Corruption Vulnerability (APSB11-01)

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Shockwave DIRAPI Lctx Chunck Memory Corruption Vulnerability APSB11-01 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Over 450 million Internet-enabled desktops have installed Adobe Shockwave Player. These people now have access to...

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari Scrollbar Handling Use-after-free Vulnerability (VUPEN-SR-2010-245)

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari Scrollbar Handling Use-after-free Vulnerability VUPEN-SR-2010-245 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Apple Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. As of February 2010, Safari was the fourth most widely used...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Excel Formula Record Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3231)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Excel Formula Record Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2010-3231 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful tool you can use to create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Excel Ghost Record Type Parsing Vulnerability (CVE-2010-3242)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Excel Ghost Record Type Parsing Vulnerability CVE-2010-3242 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful tool you can use to create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Acrobat and Reader "newfunction" Memory Corruption Vulnerability (CVE-2010-2168)

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Acrobat and Reader "newfunction" Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2010-2168 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Adobe Acrobat and Reader are the global standards for electronic document sharing. They are used to create,...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Flash Player "newclass" Invalid Pointer Vulnerability (CVE-2010-2173)

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Flash Player "newclass" Invalid Pointer Vulnerability CVE-2010-2173 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Adobe Flash Player is a cross-platform browser-based application runtime that delivers uncompromised viewing of...

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari WebKit HTML Button Use-after-free Vulnerability (CVE-2010-1392)

VUPEN Security Research - Apple Safari WebKit HTML Button Use-after-free Vulnerability CVE-2010-1392 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. As of February 2010, Safari was the fourth most widely used browser, with...

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Acrobat and Reader GIF Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

VUPEN Security Research - Adobe Acrobat and Reader GIF Data Buffer Overflow Vulnerability http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Adobe Acrobat and Reader are the global standards for electronic document sharing. They are used to create, view, search,...

CVE-2007-4620

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in Computer Associates CA Alert Notification Service Alert.exe 8.1.586.0, 8.0.450.0, and 7.1.758.0, as used in multiple CA products including Anti-Virus for the Enterprise 7.1 through r11.1 and Threat Manager for the Enterprise 8.1 and r8, allow remote...

CVE-2007-4620

CA Alert Notification Server (Alert.exe) in multiple CA products (Anti-Virus for the Enterprise, Threat Manager, BrightStor ARCserve Backup) is affected by a buffer overflow in the Alert Notification Service triggered by crafted RPC requests. CVE-2007-4620 affects CA Alert Notification components...

iDefense Security Advisory 04.03.08: Computer Associates Alert Notification Service Multiple RPC Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

iDefense Security Advisory 04.03.08 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Apr 03, 2008 I. BACKGROUND Computer Associates Alert Notification Server is used by several CA products, including eTrust Integrated Threat Management, to provide notifications to console users. II...

Buffer overflow

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle HTTP Server 9.0.1.5, Application Server 9.0.4.3, 10.1.2.0.0, 10.1.2.0.2, and 10.1.2.2; and Collaboration Suite 9.0.4.2 and 10.1.2; has unknown impact and attack vectors related to the Oracle Process Mgmt & Notification component, aka OPMN01. NOTE: as of 2007012...

CVE-2007-0280

CVE-2007-0280 describes a buffer overflow in Oracle Process Mgmt & Notification (OPMN01) affecting Oracle HTTP Server 9.0.1.5; Application Server 9.0.4.3 and 10.1.2.x; and Collaboration Suite 9.0.4.2 and 10.1.2. Oracle notes in the description that OPMN01 is believed to be the ONS buffer overflow...