Mozilla Developers Remove Critical Bugs
Feb 08, 2008The Mozilla Foundation has removed at least ten vulnerabilities from its browser, three of which were classified as critical by the developers.
more »Vulnerabilities in Xine-Lib and Mplayer
Feb 06, 2008Vulnerabilities have been discovered in two major media players for Linux. A Xine-Lib vulnerability also affects Mplayer.
more »Red Hat Directory Server 8 with Improved Security
Jan 15, 2008Linux distributor Red Hat has released version 8 of the Red Hat Directory Server.
more »DoS Vulnerability in Asterisk
Jan 04, 2008The makers of Asterisk, the Open Source phone system, have removed a bug that allowed denial of service attacks under certain circumstances.
more »Oxygen Office 2.3.1 Removes Vulnerability
Dec 13, 2007Oxygen Office Professional 2.3.1 for Windows and Linux fixes a number of bugs.
more »SQL Queries Make Staroffice Vulnerable
Dec 11, 2007Security 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.
more »Open Office 2.3.1 Removes Bugs
Dec 05, 2007The latest version of the office suite, version 2.3.1, removes bugs and closes vulnerabilities.
more »Security Bugs in Kernel and Rsync
Nov 30, 2007Security researchers at Secunia have reported two security bugs in the Rsync synchronization tool and one in the current Linux kernel.
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