Microsoft: Vista Infected 62% Less Often Than XP

Windows Vista is dramatically more secure than Windows XP, according Microsoft’s latest Security Intelligence Report. The infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than Windows XP SP3, the company said. The report covers the first half of 2009 and is the seventh such twice-yearly...

Cross site scripting

The popen API function in TSRM/tsrmwin32.c in PHP before 5.2.11 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1, when running on certain Windows operating systems, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted 1 "e" or 2 "er" string in the second argument aka mode, possibly related t...

CVE-2009-3294

The popen API function in TSRM/tsrmwin32.c in PHP before 5.2.11 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1, when running on certain Windows operating systems, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted 1 "e" or 2 "er" string in the second argument aka mode, possibly related t...

Adobe Acrobat/Reader < 7.1.1/8.1.3/9.1 Collab getIcon Universal Exploit

Exploit for unknown platform in category local exploits ======================================================================= Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7.1.1/8.1.3/9.1 Collab getIcon Universal Exploit ======================================================================= !/usr/bin/env python Acroba...

Multiple BSD Operating Systems setusercontext() Vulnerabilities

Exploit for multiple platform in category local exploits =============================================================== Multiple BSD Operating Systems setusercontext Vulnerabilities =============================================================== BSD setusercontext vulnerabilites discovered by...

Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-8336 (apr)

The remote host is missing an update to apr announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-8336. Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the...

Google Android Security Chief: Smartphone Attacks on the Way

As smartphones become even smarter, they are going to attract more and more attention from attackers, spammers and others looking to take control of the billions of mobile devices in use today, the head of Google’s Android security team said. In a talk at the USENIX Security symposium Wednesday,...

MS09-044: Description of the security update for Remote Desktop Client version 6.0 and 6.1: August 11, 2009

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VMSA-2008-0018 : VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues

a. A privilege escalation on 32-bit and 64-bit guest operating systems VMware products emulate hardware functions and create the possibility to run guest operating systems. A flaw in the CPU hardware emulation might allow the virtual CPU to incorrectly handle the Trap flag. Exploitation of this...

Oops! About xscreensaver 5.01

Hello list, Just to clarify, I tested some operating systems against the xscreensaver vulnerability I posted yesterday. It affects at least xscreensaver 5.01. It does not affect recent versions as reported by the Debian bug tracking people, this is confirmed. Sorry about not catching this. Best...

Re: [Full-disclosure] Oops! About xscreensaver 5.01

Hmmm, sorry for flooding the list but it seems it doesnt even affect xscreensaver 5.01. I will investigate when the vuln when I have time and keep you informed. There has to be some strange conf on my Opensolaris : Best Regards, kcope 2009/7/6 Kingcope [email protected]: Hello list, Just to...

CVE-2009-0689

Array index error in the 1 dtoa implementation in dtoa.c aka pdtoa.c and the 2 gdtoa aka new dtoa implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x...

Heap overflow

Array index error in the 1 dtoa implementation in dtoa.c aka pdtoa.c and the 2 gdtoa aka new dtoa implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and 3.5.x...

lighttpd PHP File Trailing Slash Request Source Disclosure

The version of lighttpd running on the remote host discloses the source code of files such as PHP scripts when a '/' is appended to a URL corresponding to a symbolic link. This vulnerability occurs only on certain operating systems FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris prior to version 10 are known to b...

CVE-2009-0153

International Components for Unicode ICU 4.0, 3.6, and other 3.x versions, as used in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Fedora 9 and 10, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly handle invalid byte sequences...

CVE-2009-0153

International Components for Unicode ICU 4.0, 3.6, and other 3.x versions, as used in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 before 10.5.7, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Fedora 9 and 10, and possibly other operating systems, does not properly handle invalid byte sequences...

Command injection

xvfb-run 1.6.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora 10, and possibly other operating systems place the magic cookie MCOOKIE on the command line, which allows local users to gain privileges by listing the process and its arguments...

CVE-2009-1573

xvfb-run 1.6.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora 10, and possibly other operating systems place the magic cookie MCOOKIE on the command line, which allows local users to gain privileges by listing the process and its arguments...

[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: cups-1.3.10-1.fc10

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX=C2=AE operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Produc ts to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: cups-1.3.10-1.fc9

The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX=C2=AE operating systems. It has been developed by Easy Software Produc ts to promote a standard printing solution for all UNIX vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command-line interfaces...