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.
more »Mozilla Closes Down Critical Security Holes
Nov 27, 2007The 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.
more »Notes Client for Linux: Insecure Installation Routine
Nov 23, 2007The 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.
more »Security Issues in Xpdf Make Waves
Nov 08, 2007In 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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