Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > October 13 to 19, 2008

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 2 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 5 products from 5 vendors including Fedoraproject, Opensuse, Microsoft, Canonical, and Dovecot. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "Use of Uninitialized Resource", and "Incorrect Authorization".

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

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HIGH RISK
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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
2008-10-15 CVE-2008-3475 Microsoft Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01/6/7.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does not properly handle errors related to using the componentFromPoint method on xml objects that have been (1) incorrectly initialized or (2) deleted, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
8.8
2008-10-15 CVE-2008-4577 Dovecot
Fedoraproject
Opensuse
Canonical 		Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in multiple products

The ACL plugin in Dovecot before 1.1.4 treats negative access rights as if they are positive access rights, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
7.5

0 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS