Crash in Skia library when scaling high quality images — Mozilla

Mozilla community member John reported a crash in the Skia library when scaling high quality images if the scaling operation takes too long. This is caused by the image data being discarded while still in use by the scaling operation. This crash is potentially exploitable on some systems...

Stable Channel Release

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 21 to the Stable Channel. 21.0.1180.57for Mac and Linux. 21.0.1180.60 for Windowsand Chrome Frame. Chrome 21 contains a number of new features including a new API forhigh-quality video and audio communication.More detailed updates are...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: mumble-1.2.3-7.fc17.1

Mumble provides low-latency, high-quality voice communication for gamers. It includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so that the sound from your loudspeakers won't be audible to other players...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: libvpx-1.0.0-1.fc15

libvpx provides the VP8 SDK, which allows you to integrate your applications with the VP8 video codec, a high quality, royalty free, open source codec deployed on millions of computers and devices worldwide...

Skype for Windows 5.x 未明安全漏洞

Skype是一款流行的P2P VoIP软件，可提供高质量的语音通讯服务 Skype存在一个未明错误，目前没有详细漏洞细节提供 0 Skype for Windows 5.x 厂商解决方案 Skype for Windows 5.8.0.154已经修复此漏洞，建议用户下载使用： http://www.skype.com/...

ExploitHub Offering Bounties – And Residuals – for Exploits

NSS Labs’ announced today that their penetration-testing site, Exploithub, will be offering bounties to researchers for developing exploits for12 high-value vulnerabilities. Exploithub is putting up $4,400 for working exploits against what the company describes as a “dirty dozen” of client-side...

Fingerprinting the author of the ZeuS Botnet !

The source code of the ZeuS Botnet is now available for Download. Derek Jones the author this article imagine there are a few organizations who would like to talk to the authors of this code. All developers have coding habits, that is they usually have a particular way of writing each coding...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc14

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a WYSIWYG what-you-see-is-what-you-get and user friendly interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc13

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a WYSIWYG what-you-see-is-what-you-get and user friendly interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality...

Google tweaks Search algorithm to reduce the search spam !

Google has warned that search rankings will be changing after it refined its systems to weed out content farms and other search spammers. Changes made in the last 24 hours have "noticeably impacts" on around 12 per cent of search queries. The changes are designed to block out so-called content fa...

GTVHacker dev team wins cash bounty for first Google TV hack !

The GTVHacker dev team has won a cash bounty for being the first to successfully root and enable third-party application support on a Google TV device before Google – Google will reportedly be bringing support for Android applications to the platform some time later this year. According to...

Sign of the Times: Shmoocon Tickets Scalped on eBay

How do you know when your alt.hacking conference has arrived? Maybe when scalpers are offering tickets for the event on eBay for almost three times the face value. That’s the situation the organizers of hacking conference Shmoocon have found themselves in, as illicit auctions for tickets to next...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: bzip2-1.0.6-1.fc13

Bzip2 is a freely available, patent-free, high quality data compressor. Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available. However, bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at...

bzip2 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0703 Updated bzip2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVS...

Microsoft DirectX SAMI parsing buffer overflow

Overview Microsoft DirectX is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Microsoft DirectX is a feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system used for streaming...