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5 security flubs users make while Web surfing
From CIO Joan Goodchild You can install the best firewalls, patch religiously, and make sure your anti-virus software is always up-to-date, but there is one online risk factor you can never control: the user. Whether they are downloading dangerous content or falling prey to phishing scams, the en...
Ubuntu Update for php5 vulnerabilities USN-549-1
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-549-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN5491.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for php5 vulnerabilities USN-549-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...
Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:065 (php4)
The remote host is missing an update to php4 announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:065. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. 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 OR...
Microsoft explains how ActiveX in Office is abused by attackers
On the Microsoft Secure Windows Iniative blog, software engineer Chengyun discusses the default behaviour of ActiveX controls embedded in Office documents. The software giant also provides information on how can an attacker abuse ActiveX and how Office users can change the behavior of ActiveX...
CVE-2002-2431
Unspecified vulnerability in GoAhead WebServer before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause "incorrect behavior" via unknown "malicious code," related to incorrect use of the socketInputBuffered function by sockGen.c...
CVE-2002-2431: Undefined Security Weakness
Unspecified vulnerability in GoAhead WebServer before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause "incorrect behavior" via unknown "malicious code," related to incorrect use of the socketInputBuffered function by sockGen.c...
Fedora 8 : optipng-0.6.2-1.fc8 (2008-9639)
The main reason for this update is a buffer overflow that is removed in this version, that could be triggered by processing specially crafted bitmap images .bmp. Aggregated upstream changelog: ============================== ++ Put back a speed optimization, accidentally removed in version 0.6,...
Postfix local privilege escalation via hardlinked symlinks
Summary: Solaris and Linux file system behavior has changed over time, breaking one of the assumptions in Postfix. See below for a description of the behavior and how it disagrees with standards. Postfix is not affected on systems with standard POSIX, X/Open file system behavior, i.e. BSD, AIX,...
Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1603-1)
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...
[SECURITY] [DSA 1603-1] New bind9 packages fix cache poisoning
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1603-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer July 08, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...
CVE-2008-1685
gcc 4.2.0 through 4.3.0 in GNU Compiler Collection, when casts are not used, considers the sum of a pointer and an int to be greater than or equal to the pointer, which might lead to removal of length testing code that was intended as a protection mechanism against integer overflow and buffer...
C compilers may silently discard some wraparound checks
Overview Some C compilers optimize away pointer arithmetic overflow tests that depend on undefined behavior without providing a diagnostic a warning. Applications containing these tests may be vulnerable to buffer overflows if compiled with these compilers. Description In the C language, given th...
CVE-2008-1597: Undefined Security Weakness
The WPAR system call implementation in the kernel in IBM AIX 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service via unknown calls that trigger "undefined behavior."...
Different IE browser windows have different sessions and different session timeout timing
One of our user reported the following: ---- I discovered the reason why JIRA sometimes closes my IE session, it depends on the way you login: 1 When you login via navigation to your home page http://support/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa all is ok, multiple JIRA sessions never expire. 2 When you log...
SuSE 10 Security Update : madwifi (ZYPP Patch Number 4285)
This update fixes some bugs in madwifi : - possible security bug in radar detection code - dynamic Beacon Interval - Standardise Radiotap FCS Handling - fix wrong channel change behavior for AP mode - fix athhardstart returning 0 even if queue is full - rxantenna value is reset after suspend/resu...
CVE-2007-6263
The dataconn function in ftpd.c in netkit ftpd netkit-ftpd 0.17, when certain modifications to support SSL have been introduced, calls fclose on an uninitialized file stream, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash and possibly have unspecified other impact via som...
Double free
Double free vulnerability in the getreply function in ftp.c in netkit ftp netkit-ftp 0.17 20040614 and later allows remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly have unspecified other impact via some types of FTP protocol behavior. NOTE: the netkit-ftpd issue is...
CVE-2007-5769
Double free vulnerability in the getreply function in ftp.c in netkit ftp netkit-ftp 0.17 20040614 and later allows remote FTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash and possibly have unspecified other impact via some types of FTP protocol behavior. NOTE: the netkit-ftpd issue is...
