Weekly Vulnerabilities Reports > October 1 to 7, 2012

Overview

2 new vulnerabilities reported during this period, including 0 critical vulnerabilities and 0 high severity vulnerabilities. This weekly summary report vulnerabilities in 10 products from 7 vendors including Redhat, Apple, Debian, Linux, and Opensuse. Vulnerabilities are notably categorized as "XXE", and "Race Condition".

  • 2 reported vulnerabilities are remotely exploitables.
  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are related to weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten.
  • 1 reported vulnerabilities are exploitable by an anonymous user.
  • Redhat has the most reported vulnerabilities, with 2 reported vulnerabilities.

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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

0 High Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS

2 Medium Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS
2012-10-03 CVE-2012-3489 Postgresql
Opensuse
Apple
Canonical
Debian
Redhat 		XXE vulnerability in multiple products

The xml_parse function in the libxml2 support in the core server component in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 allows remote authenticated users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or URLs, and possibly obtain file or URL content that triggers a parsing error, via an XML value that refers to (1) a DTD or (2) an entity, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.
6.5
2012-10-03 CVE-2012-3552 Linux
Redhat 		Race Condition vulnerability in multiple products

Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (slab corruption and system crash) by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic.
5.9

0 Low Vulnerabilities

DATE CVE VENDOR VULNERABILITY CVSS