Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2011-15

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary                  
                        2011-04-07 - 2011-04-14                        

                       This week: 92 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 Community News
5................................................Secunia Corporate News
6..................................................This Week in Numbers

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1) Word From Secunia:


Flash 0-day


A step-by-step discussion of the latest Flash Player 0-day exploit:
http://secunia.com/blog/210


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2) This Week in Brief:

Windows Applications Insecure Library Loading

The Official, Verified Secunia List:
http://secunia.com/advisories/windows_insecure_library_loading/

The list is continuously updated as we confirm vulnerability reports,
remember to check back regularly to see if any of your programs are
affected.

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/44119/

See also:
http://secunia.com/blog/210

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Microsoft released a bunch of bulletins, described and assessed in the
following Secunia Advisories:
http://secunia.com/advisories/44072/
http://secunia.com/advisories/39903/
http://secunia.com/advisories/41387/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44160/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44155/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44156/
http://secunia.com/advisories/39122/
http://secunia.com/advisories/43836/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44015/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44161/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44162/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44153/
http://secunia.com/advisories/44159/
http://secunia.com/advisories/42747/
http://secunia.com/advisories/40983/
http://secunia.com/advisories/41212/
http://secunia.com/advisories/43093/
http://secunia.com/advisories/43299/

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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.  [SA44119] Adobe Flash Player SharedObject Type Confusion
              Vulnerability
2.  [SA43751] Adobe Flash Player / AIR AVM2 Instruction Sequence
              Handling Vulnerability
3.  [SA44064] VLC Media Player libmodplug Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
4.  [SA44054] libmodplug "CSoundFile::ReadS3M()" Buffer Overflow
              Vulnerability
5.  [SA44153] Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
6.  [SA44080] Microsoft Windows "afd.sys" 120CFh IOCTL Handling
              Vulnerability
7.  [SA43262] Sun Java JDK / JRE / SDK Multiple Vulnerabilities
8.  [SA44149] Adobe Reader/Acrobat authplay.dll Code Execution
              Vulnerability
9.  [SA43299] Microsoft Windows SMB Packet Processing Vulnerabilities
10. [SA44141] Google Chrome Flash Player Code Execution Vulnerability

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4) Secunia Community News

A step-by-step discussion of the latest Flash Player 0-day exploit:
http://secunia.com/blog/210/

Whitepaper: "Cybercriminals Do Not Need Administrative Users":
http://secunia.com/blog/205/

Webinar: View Secunia's webinar on Microsoft Patch Tuesday for April:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Secunia#p/a/u/0/kxH792VkNwA


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5) Secunia Corporate News

Secunia takes customer engagement to the next level Working closely
with customers in order to really understand how they use the Secunia
VIM and integrate it into their organisations. This has fuelled the new
Secunia VIM 3.1 enhancements.
http://secunia.com/blog/207/

Join Secunia @ Infosecurity Europe (stand #B81), April 19-21, London
Optimise your handling of vulnerabilities. Find out more and book a
one-to-one meeting:
http://secunia.com/company/events/infosec_2011/

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6) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 92 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             :     26 Secunia Advisories
  Unix/Linux          :     41 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      4 Secunia Advisories
  Cross platform      :     21 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      2 Secunia Advisories
  Highly Critical     :     12 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     33 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     38 Secunia Advisories
  Not Critical        :      7 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.

Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.)
http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/

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