Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2009-26

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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary                  
                        2009-06-18 - 2009-06-25                        

                       This week: 50 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


New Blog: The Dirty Dozen 

You Probably Got A Dirty Dozen.

And it only takes one "dirty" program to compromise your PC - but the
bad guys got a dozen shots on average!

It is a disturbing fact that the average PC users, not using the
Secunia PSI, has a total of 12 unpatched and thus insecure programs on
their PC, as we described in our blog yesterday.

Read More:
http://secunia.com/blog/56/

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2) This Week in Brief:

A vulnerability has been reported in Google Chrome, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35548/

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Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Samba, which can be exploited
by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and by
malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35539/

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A vulnerability has been reported in Shockwave Player, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35544/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

1.  [SA24314] Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site
              Scripting Vulnerability
2.  [SA35331] Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
3.  [SA34580] Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities
4.  [SA34012] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
5.  [SA35449] Apple iPhone / iPod touch Multiple Vulnerabilities
6.  [SA34451] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
7.  [SA35359] IrfanView 1BPP Image Resampling Integer Overflow
              Vulnerability
8.  [SA20153] Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
9.  [SA35548] Google Chrome HTTP Response Buffer Overflow
              Vulnerability
10. [SA35544] Shockwave Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

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4) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 50 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             :      4 Secunia Advisories
  Unix/Linux          :     24 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      2 Secunia Advisories
  Cross platform      :     20 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
  Highly Critical     :      9 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     21 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     18 Secunia Advisories
  Not Critical        :      2 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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