DoS Vulnerability in Asterisk

Jan 04, 2008

The makers of Asterisk, the Open Source phone system, have removed a bug that allowed denial of service attacks under certain circumstances.

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Oxygen Office 2.3.1 Removes Vulnerability

Dec 13, 2007

Oxygen Office Professional 2.3.1 for Windows and Linux fixes a number of bugs.

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SQL Queries Make Staroffice Vulnerable

Dec 11, 2007

Security researchers Secunia have discovered a vulnerability in StarOffice that gives attackers the ability to execute arbitrary code. The developers of the free counterpart, OpenOffice, removed the problem last week.

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Open Office 2.3.1 Removes Bugs

Dec 05, 2007

The latest version of the office suite, version 2.3.1, removes bugs and closes vulnerabilities.

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Security Bugs in Kernel and Rsync

Nov 30, 2007

Security researchers at Secunia have reported two security bugs in the Rsync synchronization tool and one in the current Linux kernel.

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Mozilla Closes Down Critical Security Holes

Nov 27, 2007

The Mozilla Foundation has just released Firefox version 2.0.0.10 which resolves three critical vulnerabilities – but new issues have already reared their ugly heads.

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Notes Client for Linux: Insecure Installation Routine

Nov 23, 2007

The installation routine with Version 8 of Lotus Notes for Linux, which was released by IBM in September, leaves a whole bunch of files with read, write and executable permissions set for any user behind on the filesystem.

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Security Issues in Xpdf Make Waves

Nov 08, 2007

In the past, security bugs in the Xpdf PDF viewer have endangered Linux systems time and again, and projects that use Xpdf code are also affected.

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