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Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2009-25
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:45:56 -0500 (CDT)
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The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary
2009-06-11 - 2009-06-18
This week: 66 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:
Meet us at the annual FIRST conference in Kyoto, Japan
Secunia will be attending the FIRST conference in Kyoto from the 28th
of June 2009 to the 3rd of July 2009. Come and meet one of our
representatives including the CTO of Secunia.
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) is a global
non-profit organisation dedicated to bringing together computer
security incident response teams (CSIRT's) and includes response teams
from 194 corporations, government bodies, universities and other
institutions spread across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
FIRST is the global Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams:
http://www.first.org/
Book a meeting with a Secunia representative at the FIRST conference!
Please send an email to: sales () secunia com
* Did you know that Secunia today has 1.5 million active users of
the Secunia PSI
* We are currently looking for people who will assist us in
translating the PSI to their local language, we are in
particular interested in translations to Chinese, Indian and
Japanese
If you are interested in translating the Secunia PSI to your native
language, please send your contact details to our Secunia PSI Partner
Manager, Mikkel Winther mwinther () secunia com
* Did you know that Secunia last year was the most active research
house and is recognised as the leading Vulnerability
Intelligence Provider?
Are you sure you have all latest vulnerability intelligence research
required to secure your systems?
Click here to request a 10 day trial now:
http://secunia.com/advisories/try_vi/
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2) This Week in Brief:
Tielei Wang has discovered a vulnerability in IrfanView, which can be
exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's
system.
For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35359/
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Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can
be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information,
bypass certain security restrictions, or to compromise a vulnerable
system.
For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35331/
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Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple iPhone and iPod touch,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose sensitive
information, conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request
forgery attacks, or compromise a user's system.
For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35449/
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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:
1. [SA35331] Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
2. [SA34580] Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities
3. [SA34012] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
4. [SA35362] Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
5. [SA28713] Facebook Photo Uploader ActiveX Control Property Handling
Buffer Overflow
6. [SA32428] Microsoft PowerPoint Multiple Vulnerabilities
7. [SA20153] Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
8. [SA34451] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
9. [SA35091] Apple QuickTime Multiple Vulnerabilities
10. [SA34572] Microsoft PowerPoint OutlineTextRefAtom Parsing
Vulnerability
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4) This Week in Numbers
During the past week 66 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 : 5 Secunia Advisories
Unix/Linux : 28 Secunia Advisories
Other : 2 Secunia Advisories
Cross platform : 31 Secunia Advisories
Criticality Ratings:
Extremely Critical : 0 Secunia Advisories
Highly Critical : 15 Secunia Advisories
Moderately Critical : 27 Secunia Advisories
Less Critical : 20 Secunia Advisories
Not Critical : 4 Secunia Advisories
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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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