[ISN] Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2009-29

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:40:34 -0500 (CDT)
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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary                  
                        2009-07-09 - 2009-07-16                        

                       This week: 87 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:

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:

Microsoft has released their security bulletins for July.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35784/
http://secunia.com/advisories/35779/
http://secunia.com/advisories/35773/
http://secunia.com/advisories/35808/
http://secunia.com/advisories/35683/

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SBerry has discovered a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.5. Other versions may also
be affected.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35798/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

1.  [SA35798] Mozilla Firefox Memory Corruption Vulnerability
2.  [SA24314] Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site
              Scripting Vulnerability
3.  [SA34012] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
4.  [SA35683] Microsoft DirectShow Streaming Video ActiveX Control
              Vulnerabilities
5.  [SA35800] Microsoft Office Web Components Code Execution
              Vulnerability
6.  [SA35773] Windows Embedded OpenType Font Engine Two Vulnerabilities
7.  [SA34451] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
8.  [SA34580] Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities
9.  [SA35758] Apple Safari Two WebKit Component Vulnerabilities
10. [SA35853] Sun Java JDK / JRE XML Signature HMAC Truncation Spoofing

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4) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 87 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             :     13 Secunia Advisories
  Unix/Linux          :     36 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      2 Secunia Advisories
  Cross platform      :     36 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      1 Secunia Advisory  
  Highly Critical     :      8 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     45 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     26 Secunia Advisories
  Not Critical        :      7 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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http://secunia.com/advisories/weekly_summary/

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