Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > September 22 to 28, 2008

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 2 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 3 products from 2 vendors including Apple, and Opera. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Use of Uninitialized Resource", and "Improper Initialization".

  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Apple has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 1 reported vulnerabilities.

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HIGH RISK
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MEDIUM RISK
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EXPLOITABLE
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EXPLOITABLE
EXPLOIT
AVAILABLE
EXPLOITABLE
ANONYMOUSLY
AFFECTING
WEB APPLICATION

Vulnerability Details

The following table list reported vulnerabilities for the period covered by this report:

0 Critical Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

2 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2008-09-27 CVE-2008-4197 Opera Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in Opera Browser

Opera before 9.52 on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris, when processing custom shortcut and menu commands, can produce argument strings that contain uninitialized memory, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or conduct other attacks via vectors related to activation of a shortcut.
8.8
2008-09-26 CVE-2008-3637 Apple Improper Initialization vulnerability in Apple mac OS X and mac OS X Server

The Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) provider in Java on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.4, and 10.5.5 uses an uninitialized variable, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted applet, related to an "error checking issue."
8.8

0 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS