SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 7083)

Mozilla Firefox has been updated to version 3.5.10, fixing various bugs and security issues. - Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it was possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random. Since the pseudo-random number generator was only seeded once per browsing session,...

SuSE 10 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (ZYPP Patch Number 7101)

This update brings Mozilla Firefox to the 3.5.11 security release. It fixes following security issues : - Several memory safety bugs in habe been identified in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs show evidence of memory corruption under certain...

SuSE9 Security Update : the Linux kernel (YOU Patch Number 12646)

This updates the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 kernel to fix various security issues and some bugs. The following security bugs were fixed : - Incorrect buffer handling in the biarch-compat buffer handling could be used by local attackers to gain root privileges. This problem affects foremost...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2010:0632-1)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to version 3.6.10, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-49 / CVE-2010-3169: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. So...

openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2010:0632-2)

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 was updated to version 2.0.8, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-49 / CVE-2010-3169: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based product...

openSUSE Security Update : seamonkey (openSUSE-SU-2010:0632-2)

Mozilla SeaMonkey 2.0 was updated to version 2.0.8, fixing various bugs and security issues. Following security issues were fixed: MFSA 2010-49 / CVE-2010-3169: Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based product...

Bug Count Just One Problem for Facebook Foe Diaspora

Saying that you want to take on the world’s biggest social network is the kind of thing that puts a big target on your back. At least that’s what the ambitious young crew behind Diaspora, an open source alternative to Facebook, found out this week. The Diaspora team pushed out an early as in...

Google Fixes 10 Bugs in New Chrome Release

Less than two weeks after releasing version 6.0 of its Chrome browser, Google has pushed out another Chrome release, which includes fixes for 10 security bugs, seven of which are rated either critical or high. Google Chrome 6.0.472.59 comes out just 12 days after the last Chrome release, which...

Month Of Abysssec Undisclosed Bugs - Excel RTD Memory Corruption

''' | / |/ \ /\ | | | | \ | \ / | | | | / \ | | | | | | | |/| | | | |/ /\ | | | | | | | | || / \ || | | | || ||// \/|/ http://www.exploit-db.com/moaub-10-excel-rtd-memory-corruption/ http://www.exploit-db.com/sploits/moaub-10-exploit.zip ''' ''' Title : Excel RTD Memory Corruption Version :...

Fedora 13 : kernel-2.6.34.6-54.fc13 (2010-14235)

This update solves many of the problems with the previous 2.6.34 kernel, in addition to providing some security fixes. There are still unfixed suspend/resume bugs in this release, but a large number have been fixed -- enough to make it worth releasing this kernel now instead of waiting for more...

SeaMonkey < 2.0.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of SeaMonkey is earlier than 2.0.7. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues : - Multiple memory safety bugs could lead to memory corruption, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution. MFSA 2010-49 - An integer overflow vulnerability in...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.9/ 1.9.1.12) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be...

Easily Exploitable Bugs Becoming a Precious Commodity

There has never been more focus on security than there is right now, whether it’s from software vendors looking to eliminate flaws in their products, from attackers looking to exploit those flaws or from customers who are sick of having their PCs compromised. And as the focus has intensified in...

openSUSE Security Update : libldap-2_4-2 (openSUSE-SU-2010:0547-1)

The following issues have been fixed in OpenLDAP: specially crafted MODRDN operations can crash the OpenLDAP server CVE-2010-0211 and CVE-2010-0212. also fixed were following bugs : - adding a 'postalAdress' Attribute with an embedded NUL value caused the LDAP server to terminate with an assertio...

CentOS 5 : spice-xpi (CESA-2010:0651)

An updated spice-xpi package that fixes two security issues and three bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severi...

CVE-2010-3113

Google Chrome before 5.0.375.127, and webkitgtk before 1.2.5, does not properly handle SVG documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors related to state changes when using DeleteButtonControll...

OpenSSH 5.6 Updates Authentication Bugs

According to the developers, the latest release of the free SSH connectivity tools include a number of bug fixes and several new features. Read the full article. The H Security...

openSUSE Security Update : perl (openSUSE-SU-2010:0519-1)

perl Safe.pm module was affected by two problems where attackers could break out of such a safed execution. CVE-2010-1447 , CVE-2010-1168 This update fixes this problem. Also the following bugs were fixed : - fix tell cornercase bnc596167 - fix regex memory leak bnc557636 - also run h2ph on...

CVE-2010-2812

Client.cpp in ZNC 0.092 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service exception and daemon crash via a PING command that lacks an argument...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2010:0610)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...