Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2009-22

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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary                  
                        2009-05-21 - 2009-05-28                        

                       This week: 59 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:

New Blog: Improve Your Security with the Secunia PSI

We are proud to announce a new BETA release for the Secunia PSI. This
release offers new functionality that will significantly impact how you
browse the Internet and how you view and use your Secunia System Score.

Read more:
http://secunia.com/blog/52/


Secunia PSI WorldMap

The purpose of the Secunia PSI WorldMap is to provide you with
interesting statistics and to encourage you to install the free Secunia
PSI and make sure that your Secunia System Score is at 100%, thus
increasing the overall score of your local region and country.

View the Secunia PSI WorldMap Online:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/worldmap/

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2) This Week in Brief:

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

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35091/

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A vulnerability has been discovered in Mac OS X, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35118/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

1.  [SA34924] Adobe Reader JavaScript Methods Memory Corruption
2.  [SA34012] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
3.  [SA35091] Apple QuickTime PICT Parsing Buffer Overflow
              Vulnerability
4.  [SA20153] Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
5.  [SA35118] Mac OS X Java Calendar Deserialisation Code Execution
              Vulnerability
6.  [SA35109] Microsoft Internet Information Services WebDAV Request
              Directory Security Bypass
7.  [SA34451] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
8.  [SA33954] Microsoft Excel Two Vulnerabilities
9.  [SA32473] Sun Solaris "sadmind" Two Vulnerabilities
10. [SA35194] Pidgin Multiple Vulnerabilities

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4) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 59 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          :     36 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      1 Secunia Advisory  
  Cross platform      :     18 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
  Highly Critical     :     11 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     26 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     18 Secunia Advisories
  Not Critical        :      4 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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