Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2010-32

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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary                  
                        2010-08-05 - 2010-08-12                        

                       This week: 70 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:


"Organizations typically select Secunia CSI because of the product's
ability to provide continuous and ongoing security-scanning and
reporting facilities that help to maintain a consistent security
posture." - OVUM Technology Audit, 2010

Download the complete technology audit report at:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/ovum_request/


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2) This Week in Brief:

Microsoft security bulletins for August.

For more information:
http://secunia.com/advisories/40936/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40878/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40937/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40934/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40935/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40904/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40895/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40893/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40871/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40883/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40879/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40872/
http://secunia.com/advisories/38931/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40750/

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Arkon has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

http://secunia.com/advisories/40870

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player,
which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct click-jacking
attacks or compromise a user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/40907

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A vulnerability and some security issues have been reported in Opera,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions or compromise a user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/40120/

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Google has issued an update for the Flash plugin for Google Chrome.
This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/40917/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

For more information on how to receive alerts on these vulnerabilities,
subscribe to the Secunia business solutions:
http://secunia.com/advisories/business_solutions/

1.  [SA40729] QuickTime Player Streaming Debug Error Logging Buffer
              Overflow
2.  [SA40026] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
3.  [SA40647] Microsoft Windows Shell Shortcut Parsing Vulnerability
4.  [SA40766] Adobe Reader/Acrobat Font Parsing Integer Overflow
              Vulnerability
5.  [SA24314] Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site
              Scripting Vulnerability
6.  [SA37255] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
7.  [SA40743] Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities
8.  [SA38830] Symantec Products File Parsing Multiple Vulnerabilities
9.  [SA40807] Apple iOS Security Bypass and PDF File Processing
              Vulnerability
10. [SA40720] Mozilla Firefox Plugin Parameter Array Dangling Pointer
              Vulnerability

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4) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 70 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             :     20 Secunia Advisories
  Unix/Linux          :     20 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      2 Secunia Advisories
  Cross platform      :     28 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
  Highly Critical     :     13 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     21 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     30 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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