Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2012-13

2012-03-30 08:11

======================================================================== The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary 2012-03-22 - 2012-03-29 This week: 92 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: Secunia Achieves Record Growth - Again - and Brings US Expansion into Focus In 2011 Secunia continued the trend of double-digit growth exhibited over the last nine years, delivering EURO 19.4 million in revenues and EURO 2.4 million in operating profit for 2011 - equal to a 50 per cent increase in revenues. "Secunia has for the ninth consecutive year realised profitable growth. To ensure we continue this, we constantly manage the balance between short-term execution, and focus on strengthening the platform for further expansion." - Thomas Zeihlund, CEO, Secunia. Read the official announcement here: http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/news/313 ======================================================================== 2) This Week in Brief: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Opera, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and potentially compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48535/ IBM has acknowledged multiple vulnerabilities in IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information, manipulate certain data, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), and compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48546/ Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48512/ Francis Provencher has discovered a vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48457/ A vulnerability has been reported in phpFox, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48550/ Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Pale Moon, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, disclose certain sensitive information, and compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48561/ rgod has discovered a vulnerability in Cisco Linksys PlayerPT ActiveX Control, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48543/ A vulnerability has been reported in Webglimpse, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. http://secunia.com/advisories/48452/ ======================================================================== 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. [SA48009] Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities 2. [SA48494] OpenOffice.org ODF Document XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability 3. [SA48281] Adobe Flash Player Two Vulnerabilities 4. [SA48457] Adobe Photoshop TIFF Image Decompression Buffer Overflow 5. [SA48526] LibreOffice Raptor RDF XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability 6. [SA48512] Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities 7. [SA48543] Cisco Linksys PlayerPT ActiveX Control "SetSource()" Buffer Overflow 8. [SA48479] Raptor RDF XML External Entity Processing Information Disclosure Vulnerability 9. [SA48504] MediaWiki Multiple Vulnerabilities 10. [SA48500] VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities ======================================================================== 4) Secunia Corporate News Attending the Microsoft Management Summit this year (16-20 April, Las Vegas)? Meet the Secunia team at stand #645 to discuss how you can optimise your handling of vulnerabilities in the most cost effective way. Learn more about the event here: http://www.mms-2012.com/ ======================================================================== 5) This Week in Numbers During the past week 92 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 : 33 Secunia Advisories Other : 14 Secunia Advisories Cross platform : 35 Secunia Advisories Criticality Ratings: Extremely Critical : 0 Secunia Advisories Highly Critical : 23 Secunia Advisories Moderately Critical : 24 Secunia Advisories Less Critical : 42 Secunia Advisories Not Critical : 3 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ Certified Ethical Hacker and CISSP training with Expanding Security gives the best training and support. Get a free live class invite weekly. Best program, best price. www.ExpandingSecurity.com/PainPill

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