Google Releases Chrome 10.0.648.127

Google has released Chrome 10.0.648.127 for all platforms to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or bypass security restrictions. US-CERT encourages users and administrators t...

Apple Releases Java Updates for Mac OS X 10.5 and OS X 10.6

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 9 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 4 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 Apple...

Microsoft Releases March Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Office as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2011. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the bulletin an...

VMware ESX/ESXi SLPD denial of service vulnerability and ESX third party updates for Service Console packages bind, pam, and rpm.

a. Service Location Protocol daemon DoSThis patch fixes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Service Location Protocol daemon SLPD. Exploitation of this vulnerability could cause SLPD to consume significant CPU resources.VMware would like to thank Nicolas Gregoire and US CERT for reporting th...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for March Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its March release will contain three bulletins. One of these bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows. The remaining two bulletins will have the severity rating of important...

Wireshark 6LoWPAN denial of service vulnerability

Overview Wireshark will crash on 32-bit systems while reading a malformed 6LoWPAN packet. Description Paul Makowski's report states:dissect6lowpaniphcin /epan/dissectors/packet-6lowpan.c trusts user supplied data when incrementing 'offset '. It is possible for the user to increment 'offset ' to a...

Google Releases Chrome 9.0.597.107

Google has released Chrome 9.0.597.107 for all platforms to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of 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...

Mozilla Releases Updates for Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.14 and Firefox 3.5.17 to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, conduct cross-site request forgery attacks, cause a denial-of-service condition, or operate with elevat...

More than 199 Indian govt websites defaced in last 6 months !

The government today said 199 government websites have been defaced by foreign hackers in the last six months. "The website of Central Bureau of Investigation CBI was defaced by a foreign hacker "Pakistan Cyber Army" on December 3, 2010. In addition to this, a total of 198 government websites wer...

Internet System Consortium Releases BIND Advisory

The Internet System Consortium has released an advisory to address a vulnerability affecting BIND versions 9.7.1 through 9.7.2-P3. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators using the affected versions of BIND to...

Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update for Java SE and Java for Business

Oracle has released a Critical Patch Update for Java SE and Java for Business. This update addresses multiple vulnerabilities and contains 21 security fixes. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Oracle Java SE and Java for Business Critical Patch Update Advisory for February...

Stonesoft Claims To Find More Evasion Techniques in Security Products

Four months after it first went public with a warning about widespread vulnerabilities in network security products, Stonesoft said it has found more than 100 new holes, and that security vendors are doing little to address the problem. The company on Monday announced that it has submitted...

ICONICS GENESIS32 and BizViz ActiveX Stack Overflow

Overview Security researchers Scott Bell and Blair Strang of Security-Assessment.com have released a report detailing a stack overflow vulnerability affecting ICONICS GENESIS32 and BizViz products. The vulnerable ActiveX control, GenVersion.dll, is a component of WebHMI, which is incorporated in...

Oracle Releases Security Alert for Java Runtime Environment

Oracle has released a security alert to address a vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component of the Oracle Java SE and Java for Business products. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and...

Google Releases Chrome 9.0.597.95

Google has released Chrome 9.0.597.95 for all platforms to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. This update also includes a recently released version of Adobe Flash Player th...

RealNetworks, Inc. Releases Security Updates for RealPlayer

RealNetworks, Inc. has released security updates to address a vulnerability affecting Windows RealPlayer 14.0.1 and earlier versions and RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.4 and earlier versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the...

Adobe Releases Security Update for Flash Player

Adobe has released a security bulletin to address multiple vulnerabilities in Flash Player 10.1.102.64 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition...

Microsoft Releases February Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2011. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, obtain...

Adobe Prenotification Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Adobe had issued a prenotification advisory indicating that it plans to release updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat to address multiple vulnerabilities. The advisory indicates that updates for Windows and Macintosh will be available on February 8, 2011. An update for UNIX will be available the...

Majordomo Vulnerable to Directory Traversal

US-CERT is aware of a vulnerability affecting Majordomo 2. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information that could be used to leverage additional attacks. Reports indicate that this vulnerability affects builds 20110121 and prior. US-CERT encourages use...