Security News > 2011 > May > Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-19
======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2011-05-06 - 2011-05-13 This week: 152 advisories ======================================================================== Table of Contents: 1.....................................................Word From Secunia 2....................................................This Week In Brief 3...............................This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories 4................................................Secunia Community News 5................................................Secunia Corporate News 6..................................................This Week in Numbers ======================================================================== 1) Word From Secunia: Secunia trailblazed through 2010 with continued hyper growth "I am thrilled to say that 2010 was a record-breaking year for Secunia, thanks to our customers, partners, fellow Secunians, and the community - a continuation of the year-on-year hyper growth that we have achieved since Secunia was established in 2002." Niels Henrik Rasmussen, CEO, Secunia. Read more: http://secunia.com/blog/220 ======================================================================== 2) This Week in Brief: Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Read more: http://secunia.com/advisories/44537/ -- A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. Read more: http://secunia.com/advisories/44538/ -- Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Read more: http://secunia.com/advisories/44406/ -- Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM Rational System Architect, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Read more: http://secunia.com/advisories/43399/ -- Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Read more: http://secunia.com/advisories/44412/ -- A vulnerability has been discovered in ICONICS VersionInfo ActiveX control, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Read more: http://secunia.com/advisories/44417/ ======================================================================== 3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories: For more information on how to receive alerts on these vulnerabilities, subscribe to the Secunia business solutions: http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/ 1. [SA44119] Adobe Flash Player SharedObject Type Confusion Vulnerability 2. [SA44409] WordPress Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability 3. [SA44153] Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities 4. [SA44467] Exim "dkim_exim_verify_finish()" Format String Vulnerability 5. [SA44454] VMware vCenter Server / VirtualCenter Information Disclosure and Directory Traversal 6. [SA44537] Microsoft Office PowerPoint Two Vulnerabilities 7. [SA44427] WordPress WP-DBManager Plugin Two Vulnerabilities 8. [SA44472] SUSE update for MozillaFirefox, MozillaThunderbird, mozilla-xulrunner, and seamonkey 9. [SA43739] MuPDF Firefox Plugin Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 10. [SA44538] Microsoft Windows WINS Service Failed Response Data Reuse Vulnerability ======================================================================== 4) Secunia Community News Quick and easy Microsoft Patch Tuesday webinars Listen to Stefan Frei, Secunia.s Research Analyst Director present a compact summary of the key messages and updates from Microsoft in a fast and convenient way. Read more: http://secunia.com/resources/webinars Fix the failures of end-point security @ Swiss Cyber Storm, 12-15 May, Zurich Listen to Secunia's Research Analyst Director, Stefan Frei's speaker session (13 May, 11.30 am): http://secunia.com/scstorm_2011/ Infosecurity Magazine recommends the Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) Ed Gibson (former head of cybersecurity with Microsoft) recognises Secunia's free security tool as a "solution to the malaise of security on the Internet": http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/articles/219 ======================================================================== 5) Secunia Corporate News Interested in taking pre-emptive action against vulnerabilities? The Secunia Vulnerability Manager (VIM) enables you to strategize your handling of emerging threats. Read more and register for a free trial here: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/ Secunia in Boersen: Former Navision owner invests in Secunia Preben Damgaard, Secunia board member, IT billionaire, and successful industry entrepreneur has become an investor in Secunia. Read more: http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/articles/217/ ======================================================================== 6) This Week in Numbers During the past week 152 Secunia Advisories have been released. All Secunia customers have received immediate notification on the alerts that affect their business. This weeks Secunia Advisories had the following spread across platforms and criticality ratings: Platforms: Windows : 10 Secunia Advisories Unix/Linux : 93 Secunia Advisories Other : 6 Secunia Advisories Cross platform : 43 Secunia Advisories Criticality Ratings: Extremely Critical : 0 Secunia Advisories Highly Critical : 34 Secunia Advisories Moderately Critical : 52 Secunia Advisories Less Critical : 57 Secunia Advisories Not Critical : 9 Secunia Advisories ======================================================================== Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive, by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. 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