[ISN] Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-47

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:18:51 -0600 (CST)
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                   The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary
                         2011-11-17 - 2011-11-24

                        This week: 69 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................................................Secunia Corporate News
5..................................................This Week in Numbers

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1) Word From Secunia:

Senior management reshuffle to secure continued global expansion for
Secunia
Founder and CEO Niels Henrik Rasmussen wishes to focus on strategic
development and expansion of collaborative relations to consolidate
Secunia's strategic position. Thomas Zeihlund is appointed new CEO with
focus on continuing Secunia's strong growth. Read more:
http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/news/283

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2) This Week in Brief:

IBM has acknowledged multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java, which can be
exploited by malicious users to disclose certain information and by
malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, cause a
DoS (Denial of Service), and compromise a vulnerable system.
http://secunia.com/advisories/46977/

A vulnerability has been discovered in QQPlayer, which can be exploited
by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
http://secunia.com/advisories/46924/

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mac RealPlayer, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
http://secunia.com/advisories/46963/

Novell has acknowledged a vulnerability in Open Enterprise Server,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.
http://secunia.com/advisories/46936/

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in RealPlayer, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
http://secunia.com/advisories/46954/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

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1.  [SA46512] Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities
2.  [SA46919] Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Driver Keyboard Layout
               Denial of Service
3.  [SA46889] Google Chrome V8 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
4.  [SA46887] ISC BIND Recursive Query Processing Denial of Service
               Vulnerability
5.  [SA46954] RealPlayer Multiple Vulnerabilities
6.  [SA46798] nginx DNS Response Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
7.  [SA46761] VMware vCenter Update Manager Jetty Directory Traversal
               Vulnerability
8.  [SA46867] IBM WebSphere Application Server JSF Applications Request
               Handling Information Disclosure
9.  [SA46977] IBM Java Multiple Vulnerabilities
10. [SA46818] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

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4) Secunia Corporate News

Blog from Niels Henrik Rasmussen - Change of management at Secunia
Former Secunia CEO discusses the reasoning behind the new changes and
outlines his new focus on the strategic corporate development of
Secunia. Read more: http://secunia.com/blog/284/

Dark Reading: Secunia Names Thomas Zeihlund As CEO
Strong sales and customer growth, solid earnings, and future
international expansion are the reasons behind the new changes to
Secunia.s senior management structure. Read more:
http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/news/232200129/secunia-names-thomas-zeilhland-as-ceo.html


ZDNet: Thanksgiving tech support survival kit - 2011 Edition
"Prepare in advance for the inevitable .Turkey Day. tech support
requests." The Secunia PSI is named as an essential element of the
survival kit. Read more:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/thanksgiving-tech-support-survival-kit-2011-edition/16466

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5) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 69 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          :     46 Secunia Advisories
   Other               :      1 Secunia Advisory
   Cross platform      :     17 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
   Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
   Highly Critical     :     21 Secunia Advisories
   Moderately Critical :     12 Secunia Advisories
   Less Critical       :     30 Secunia Advisories
   Not Critical        :      6 Secunia Advisories

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by clicking the link.
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Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use
those supplied by the vendor.

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http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/

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