[ISN] Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-51

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                   The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary
                         2011-12-15 - 2011-12-22

                        This week: 40 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:

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2) This Week in Brief:

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/47325/

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla SeaMonkey, where
one has an unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious
people to disclose sensitive information and compromise a user's
system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/47334/

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox and
Thunderbird, where one has an unknown impact and others can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information and
compromise a user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/47302/

A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be
exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's
system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/47237/

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/47276/

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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.  [SA47237] Microsoft Windows win32k.sys Memory Corruption
               Vulnerability
2.  [SA46406] Microsoft .NET Framework / Silverlight Class Inheritance
               Restriction Vulnerability
3.  [SA47161] Adobe Flash Player Unspecified Code Execution
               Vulnerability
4.  [SA45665] RSA SecurID Software Token Insecure Library Loading
               Vulnerability
5.  [SA47133] Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities
6.  [SA47231] Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities
7.  [SA46512] Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities
8.  [SA47216] Zabbix Two Script Insertion Vulnerabilities
9.  [SA47274] Nagios XI Mass Acknowledgement Component URL Cross-Site
               Scripting Vulnerability
10. [SA47249] Drupal Meta tags quick Module Script Insertion
               Vulnerability

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4) Secunia Corporate News

CBS News Money Watch: Security tips from a legendary hacker
Michael Hess interviews Kevin Mitnick - once the "most wanted" computer
hacker in the world and now a leading consultant/speaker on information
security. Read more: http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/articles/290

TechCrunch: Microsoft IE silent upgrades
Read the review of Microsoft's plans to automatically upgrade Windows
customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer in 2012:
http://secunia.com/company/blog_news/articles/289

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5) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 40 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          :     15 Secunia Advisories
   Other               :      0 Secunia Advisories
   Cross platform      :     20 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
   Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
   Highly Critical     :      6 Secunia Advisories
   Moderately Critical :     16 Secunia Advisories
   Less Critical       :     15 Secunia Advisories
   Not Critical        :      3 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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