Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-47

2011-11-28 09:18

======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2011-11-17 - 2011-11-24 This week: 69 advisories ======================================================================== Table of Contents: 1.....................................................Word From Secunia 2....................................................This Week In Brief 3...............................This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories 4................................................Secunia Corporate News 5..................................................This Week in Numbers ======================================================================== 1) Word From Secunia: Senior management reshuffle to secure continued global expansion for Secunia Founder and CEO Niels Henrik Rasmussen wishes to focus on strategic development and expansion of collaborative relations to consolidate Secunia's strategic position. Thomas Zeihlund is appointed new CEO with focus on continuing Secunia's strong growth. Read more: http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/news/283 ======================================================================== 2) This Week in Brief: IBM has acknowledged multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java, which can be exploited by malicious users to disclose certain information and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/46977/ A vulnerability has been discovered in QQPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/46924/ Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mac RealPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/46963/ Novell has acknowledged a vulnerability in Open Enterprise Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/46936/ Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in RealPlayer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/46954/ ======================================================================== 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. [SA46512] Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities 2. [SA46919] Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Driver Keyboard Layout Denial of Service 3. [SA46889] Google Chrome V8 Memory Corruption Vulnerability 4. [SA46887] ISC BIND Recursive Query Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability 5. [SA46954] RealPlayer Multiple Vulnerabilities 6. [SA46798] nginx DNS Response Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 7. [SA46761] VMware vCenter Update Manager Jetty Directory Traversal Vulnerability 8. [SA46867] IBM WebSphere Application Server JSF Applications Request Handling Information Disclosure 9. [SA46977] IBM Java Multiple Vulnerabilities 10. [SA46818] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities ======================================================================== 4) Secunia Corporate News Blog from Niels Henrik Rasmussen - Change of management at Secunia Former Secunia CEO discusses the reasoning behind the new changes and outlines his new focus on the strategic corporate development of Secunia. Read more: http://secunia.com/blog/284/ Dark Reading: Secunia Names Thomas Zeihlund As CEO Strong sales and customer growth, solid earnings, and future international expansion are the reasons behind the new changes to Secunia.s senior management structure. Read more: http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/news/232200129/secunia-names-thomas-zeilhland-as-ceo.html ZDNet: Thanksgiving tech support survival kit - 2011 Edition "Prepare in advance for the inevitable .Turkey Day. tech support requests." The Secunia PSI is named as an essential element of the survival kit. Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/thanksgiving-tech-support-survival-kit-2011-edition/16466 ======================================================================== 5) This Week in Numbers During the past week 69 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 : 5 Secunia Advisories Unix/Linux : 46 Secunia Advisories Other : 1 Secunia Advisory Cross platform : 17 Secunia Advisories Criticality Ratings: Extremely Critical : 0 Secunia Advisories Highly Critical : 21 Secunia Advisories Moderately Critical : 12 Secunia Advisories Less Critical : 30 Secunia Advisories Not Critical : 6 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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