Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2009-33

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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary                  
                        2009-08-06 - 2009-08-13                        

                       This week: 83 advisories                        

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Table of Contents:

1.....................................................Word From Secunia
2....................................................This Week In Brief
3...............................This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories
4..................................................This Week in Numbers

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1) Word From Secunia:

Do you speak binary?

If you do, then you may be interested in our monthly blog where we
elaborate over our binary analysis of certain vulnerabilities:
http://secunia.com/blog/60/

If you are truly fluent in "binary" and love to pull your software
apartment to see how it works, then we may have an interesting job for
you:
http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/open_positions_vulnerability_analyst_trainee
http://secunia.com/corporate/jobs/open_positions_senior_reverse_engineer


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2) This Week in Brief:

Microsoft

It is time to patch your Microsoft software, a total of 9 bulletins
were released this week, you should pay particular attention to the
ATL, AVI, Office Web Components, and Remote Desktop Web Connection
ActiveX issues.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35800/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36213/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36222/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36229/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36127/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36214/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36220/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36222/
http://secunia.com/advisories/36213/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

1.  [SA35948] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
2.  [SA35853] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
3.  [SA24314] Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site
              Scripting Vulnerability
4.  [SA35949] Adobe Reader/Acrobat SWF Content Arbitrary Code Execution
5.  [SA36159] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
6.  [SA36001] Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
7.  [SA28713] Facebook Photo Uploader ActiveX Control Property Handling
              Buffer Overflow
8.  [SA36229] Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Two Vulnerabilities
9.  [SA24900] Akamai Download Manager ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow
              Vulnerabilities
10. [SA36187] Microsoft Windows Various Components ATL Vulnerabilities

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4) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 83 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             :     18 Secunia Advisories
  Unix/Linux          :     36 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      2 Secunia Advisories
  Cross platform      :     27 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
  Highly Critical     :     15 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     41 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     21 Secunia Advisories
  Not Critical        :      6 Secunia Advisories

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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/

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