Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-52

2011-12-30 09:57

======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2011-12-22 - 2011-12-29 This week: 20 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: Make a fresh start with Secunia in 2012 Secunia is a fast growing company, with a mission to help businesses and private users manage and eliminate the threat of unpatched vulnerable software. We are, therefore, always on the lookout for new talented individuals who want to work within IT security. Are you seeking a challenging position developing new products, solutions, and features? Do you have a passion for disassembling and reverse engineering? Or, do you thrive on auditing open source code to discover vulnerabilities and really understand these in minute detail? Secunia currently has several exciting opportunities available in Product Development and Research. Find out more here: http://secunia.com/company/jobs/ ======================================================================== 2) This Week in Brief: A vulnerability has been reported in Kerberos, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/47348/ A vulnerability has been reported in Heimdal, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/47399/ A vulnerability has been discovered in GNU inetutils, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/46239/ Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in IBM Rational Rhapsody, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/47310/ Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in BB FlashBack SDK, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/47286/ ======================================================================== 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. [SA47237] Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Memory Corruption Vulnerability 2. [SA47302] Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities 3. [SA46512] Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities 4. [SA47315] Android Browser Certificate Spoofing Vulnerability 5. [SA47161] Adobe Flash Player Unspecified Code Execution Vulnerability 6. [SA47340] Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird JAR File Handling Weakness 7. [SA47325] VLC Media Player "get_chunk_header()" Double-Free Vulnerability 8. [SA47256] Microsoft Windows Phone Message Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability 9. [SA47346] IBM DB2 / DB2 Connect Tivoli Monitoring Agent DT_RPATH Privilege Escalation Vulnerability 10. [SA47133] Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities ======================================================================== 4) Secunia Corporate News Events in 2012 . RSA USA, San Francisco, 27 Feb-02 March It.s not too early to pencil the next RSA Conference into your diary. If you plan on attending this year, visit the Secunia team on stand # 817 to discuss how you can enhance your vulnerability/patch management process. Find out more: http://www.rsaconference.com/events/2012/usa/index.htm ======================================================================== 5) This Week in Numbers During the past week 20 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 : 0 Secunia Advisories Unix/Linux : 10 Secunia Advisories Other : 2 Secunia Advisories Cross platform : 8 Secunia Advisories Criticality Ratings: Extremely Critical : 0 Secunia Advisories Highly Critical : 8 Secunia Advisories Moderately Critical : 6 Secunia Advisories Less Critical : 6 Secunia Advisories Not Critical : 0 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. Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/weekly_summary/ Contact details: Web : http://secunia.com/ E-mail : support () secunia com Tel : +45 70 20 51 44 Fax : +45 70 20 51 45 _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn

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