flash-plugin: multiple security flaws (APSB10-16)

Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.280 and 10.x before 10.1.82.76, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.3, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service memory corruption via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0209, CVE-2010-2214, and CVE-2010-2216...

Like Windows Before It, Is Android Headed For a Fall?

By most measures, Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices has been a raging success. Since it was introduced in late 2007, Android has climbed quickly, replacing Research in Motion’s Blackberry as the top-ranked mobile phone operating system in the U.S. when measured by market share...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities (2183461)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft Bulletin MS10-053. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodms10-053.nasl 6527 2017-07-05 05:56:34Z cfischer $ Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities 2183461 Authors: Sooraj KS Updated By: Madhuri D on 2010-09-12 - ...

rekonq 'Error Page' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

This host is installed with rekonq and is prone to cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbrekonqmultxssvuln.nasl 4919 2017-01-02 15:22:45Z cfi $ rekonq 'Error Page' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. Authors: Madhuri D Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone...

US CERT Warns on VxWorks Flaws

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team has issued two warnings on flaws in the embedded systems’ OS technology VxWorks as discovered by researcher HD Moore. One flaw deals with weakness in the hashing algorithm of the API authentication; The second regards debug settings being enabled by...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Certificate System 7.3 security update

Updated packages that fix multiple security issues and rebase various components are now available for Red Hat Certificate System 7.3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

Two Unpatched Flaws Show Up in Apple iOS

The technique that the Jailbreakme.com Web site is using to bypass the iPhone’s security mechanisms and enable users to run unapproved apps on their phones involves exploiting two separate vulnerabilities. One of the vulnerabilities is a memory-corruption flaw that affects the way that Apple’s...

Wing FTP Server < 3.6.1 Multiple Flaws

According to its banner, the remote host is running a version of Wing FTP Server earlier than 3.6.1. Such versions are reportedly affected by multiple issues : - An unspecified issue in the SSH implementation could allow an authenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service condition. - An...

USN-957-2: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerability

USN-957-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. Daniel Holbert discovered that the fix for CVE-2010-1214 introduced a regression which did not properly initialize a plugin pointer. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious site, a remote attacker could use this to crash the browse...

Ubuntu Update for Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities USN-957-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-957-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN9571.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities USN-957-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Microsoft Says No to Paying Bug Bounties

Microsoft has no plans to follow in the footsteps of Mozilla and Google and pay researchers cash rewards for the bugs that they find in Microsoft’s products. In the wake of both Mozilla and Google significantly increasing their bug bounties to the $3,000 range, there have been persistent rumors i...

Firefox Hit by Drive-by Download Flaws

Mozilla has shipped a mega patch for Firefox to fix a total of 16 security flaws that expose Web surfers to drive-by download, data theft and local bar spoofing attacks. The latest Firefox 3.6.7 update includes fixes for nine “critical” issues that could be exploited to launch remote code executi...

Major Browser Flaws Will Be In Spotlight At Black Hat

At next week’s Black Hat security conference, researcher Jeremiah Grossman plans to detail critical weaknesses that are enabled by default in major browsers–IE, Safari, Firefox and Chrome– and include vulnerabilities that have yet to be purged by the respective browser makers despite months and...

Old Wireless Security Flaws Still Haunting Networks

Wireless networks with open access points have become ubiquitous in the last few years as users have come to expect easy Internet access wherever they are. But as access has become more widely available the security of wireless networks has not come close to keeping pace, and as two talks at next...

Mozilla Bumps Bug Bounty to $3,000

In an effort to enlist more help finding bugs in its most popular software, such as Firefox, Thunderbird and Firefox Mobile, Mozilla is jacking up the bounty it pays to researchers who report security flaws to $3,000. The new price tag is a major increase over the payment of $500 with which the...

Apache Tomcat DoS and information leak

Several flaws in the handling of the 'Transfer-Encoding' header...

Microsoft Office Access AccWizObjects ActiveX Control Uninitialized Imports Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Office. User interaction is required in that a user must browse to a malicious website. The specific flaws exists in the instantiation of three specific ActiveX controls. The combination ...

Third-Party Apps Seen as Biggest Security Risk Now

A new report shows that the number of reported vulnerabilities in major commercial software products is accelerating, and that Apple’s products now have more vulnerabilities than those of any other major vendor. Perhaps more importantly, though, is the fact that third-party applications now accou...

PT-2010-1128 · Libtiff +1 · Libtiff +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: LibTIFF versions 3.9.4 and earlier tiff versions prior to 4.0.2-r1 Description: The issue arises from improper handling of an invalid td stripbytecount field in crafted TIFF files, leading to a denial of service through a NULL pointer...

iscripts Socialware 2.2.x - Multiple Vulnerabilities

iscripts Socialware 2.2.x - Multiple Vulnerabilities /iScripts SocialWare 2.2.x Multiple Remote Vulnerability Name iScripts SocialWare Vendor http://www.iscripts.com Versions Affected 2.2.x Author Salvatore Fresta aka Drosophila Website http://www.salvatorefresta.net Contact salvatorefresta at...