Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2012-08

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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary
                        2012-02-16 - 2012-02-23

                       This week: 85 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:

Secunia a finalist at SC Awards Europe 2012
Following SC Magazine's 5-Star overall rating for the Secunia Corporate
Software Inspector (CSI), the Secunia CSI has once again been selected
as a finalist by the magazine's annual European awards . this time in
the category of "Best Security Management." Read more:
http://secunia.com/blog/302/

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2) This Week in Brief:

Luigi Auriemma has discovered a vulnerability in Unity Web Player,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/48103/

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Pale Moon, which can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/48110/

Digital Security Research Group has discovered a vulnerability in
Net4Switch ipswcom ActiveX Control, which can be exploited by malicious
people to compromise a user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/48125/

Luigi Auriemma has discovered a vulnerability in Novell Messenger
Client, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/48126/

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/48093/

Mozilla has acknowledged a vulnerability in Firefox, Thunderbird, and
Seamonkey, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially
compromise a user's system.

http://secunia.com/advisories/48089/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

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1.  [SA48009] Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities
2.  [SA48033] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
3.  [SA48089] Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird / Seamonkey libpng Integer
              Overflow
4.  [SA47161] Adobe Flash Player Unspecified Code Execution
              Vulnerability
5.  [SA48026] libpng "png_decompress_chunk()" Integer Overflow
              Vulnerability
6.  [SA48008] Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird / SeaMonkey XBL Binding
              Use-After-Free Vulnerability
7.  [SA48016] Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities
8.  [SA47922] Cisco IronPort Encryption Appliance "header" Cross-Site
              Scripting Vulnerability
9.  [SA47949] Microsoft Windows C Run-Time Library Incorrect Buffer
              Size Calculation Vulnerability
10. [SA48092] Symantec pcAnywhere Denial of Service Vulnerability

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4) Secunia Corporate News

Dark Reading: Nearly 80% Of All Bugs Are In Third-Party Apps
Kelly Jackson Higgins interviews Stefan Frei, Secunia's Research
Analyst Director:
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/vulnerabilities/232600860/nearly-80-of-all-bugs-are-in-third-party-apps.html


eWeek: Adobe Patches Critical Shockwave Player Bugs During February
Update
Reviews the "heavy load of third-party patches to apply this month" and
Secunia's Yearly Report 2011:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Adobe-Patches-Critical-Shockwave-Player-Bugs-During-February-Update-602580/

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5) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 85 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             :      8 Secunia Advisories
  Unix/Linux          :     42 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      2 Secunia Advisories
  Cross platform      :     33 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
  Highly Critical     :     20 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     30 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     27 Secunia Advisories
  Not Critical        :      8 Secunia Advisories

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those supplied by the vendor.

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

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