Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.127

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.127 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or conduct spoofing attacks. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review th...

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.7

Apple has released QuickTime 7.6.7 for Windows to address a vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to a stack buffer overflow that exists in QuickTime error logging. By convincing a user to open a specially crafted movie file, a remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code or cause a...

Adobe Releases Security Update for Flash Player

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1.82.76 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. This vulnerability also affects Adobe Air 2.0.2.12310 and earlier versions. US-CERT encourages users and...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.126

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.126 for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Chrome 5.0.375.126 contains an updated version of the Flash plugin which addresses multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and...

Apple Releases Updates for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

Apple has released iOS 4.0.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch and iOS 3.2.2 for the iPad to address vulnerabilities in the FreeType and IOSurface packages. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or gain system privileges. iPhone and iPod touch users are...

Microsoft Releases August Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and Silverlight as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or operate with elevated privileges...

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...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for August Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its August release will contain 14 bulletins. Eight bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, and Silverlight. The remaining six bulletins will hav...

VxWorks WDB Agent Remote Memory Dump

This module provides the ability to dump the system memory of a VxWorks target through WDBRPC This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VxWorks WDB Agent Remote Memory Dump', 'Description...

Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Bulletin to Address Shortcut Vulnerability

Microsoft has released security bulletin MS10-046 to address a critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows. This vulnerability is due to the failure of Microsoft Windows to properly obtain icons for shortcut files. By convincing a user to display a specially crafted shortcut file, a remote...

Yahoo Messenger WScript.Shell ActiveX control command execution

Added: 07/29/2010 Background Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging application. It includes the WScript.Shell ActiveX control. Problem The Execute method of the WScript.Shell ActiveX control allows command execution when a malicious web page is loaded in Internet Explorer. Resolution Set the...

Apple Releases Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1

Apple has released Safari 5.0.1 and Safari 4.1.1 for Windows and Mac OS X to address multiple vulnerabilities in Safari and WebKit. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.125

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.125 for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome Releases blog entr...

Firefox Releases Firefox 3.6.8

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.8 to address a critical vulnerability. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Foundation security advisory MFSA 2010-48 and update to Firefox 3.6.8 to hel...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for CDS Internet Streamer

Cisco has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the Cisco Internet Streamer application that is part of the Cisco Content Delivery System. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, including password files...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6.7

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.7 and Firefox 3.5.11 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, or conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Some of these...

Apple Releases iTunes 9.2.1

Apple has released iTunes 9.2.1 to address a vulnerability. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of itpc URLs. itpc is the protocol used by Apple iTunes for handling podcasts. By convincing a user to access a specially crafted itpc URL, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code ...

US-CERT Warns of Cisco Ethernet-Switch Vulnerability

Cisco Industrial Ethernet 3000 IE 3000 Series switches contain well-known, hard-coded read and write SNMP community strings. An remote attacker could take full control of a vulnerable device. Read the full statement. US-CERT...

Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update for July 2010

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2010 to address 59 vulnerabilities across multiple products. This update contains the following security fixes: 6 for Oracle Database Server 2 for TimesTen In-Memory Database 5 for Oracle Secure Backup 7 for Oracle Fusion Middleware 1 for...

Oracle Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement

Oracle has issued a critical patch update pre-release announcement indicating that its July release will contain 59 new vulnerability fixes. Release of the critical patch update is scheduled for Tuesday, July 13, 2010. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the pre-release...