[ISN] Secunia Weekly Summary - Issue: 2009-45

[InfoSec News]

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                  The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary                  
                        2009-10-29 - 2009-11-05                        

                       This week: 63 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..................................................This Week in Numbers

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1) Word From Secunia:

Blog: Secunia CSI 3.0 - Final

The Public Beta of the Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) 3.0
has ended in accordance with our previously announced release schedule,
and the final version of the Secunia CSI 3.0 is now available for
download.

A huge thanks goes out to the over 3,000 people who participated in the
Secunia CSI 3.0 Public Beta, which compared to last year is extremely
great, the public beta of the previous version had 1,600 participants.

Read More:
http://secunia.com/blog/65/

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2) This Week in Brief:

A vulnerability has been reported in the Symantec Altiris
ConsoleUtilities ActiveX control, which can be exploited by malicious
people to compromise a user's system.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37229/

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A weakness and some vulnerabilities have been reported in Sun Java,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or compromise a user's
system.

For more information, refer to:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37231/

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3) This Weeks Top Ten Most Read Advisories:

1.  [SA36711] Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities
2.  [SA24314] Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site
              Scripting Vulnerability
3.  [SA35948] Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
4.  [SA36983] Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities
5.  [SA37182] Opera Multiple Vulnerabilities
6.  [SA34451] Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
7.  [SA37007] Microsoft Products GDI+ Multiple Vulnerabilities
8.  [SA20153] Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
9.  [SA36979] Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple Vulnerabilities
10. [SA37186] VMware Products Directory Traversal File Disclosure
              Vulnerability

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4) This Week in Numbers

During the past week 63 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             :      6 Secunia Advisories
  Unix/Linux          :     32 Secunia Advisories
  Other               :      3 Secunia Advisories
  Cross platform      :     22 Secunia Advisories

Criticality Ratings:
  Extremely Critical  :      0 Secunia Advisories
  Highly Critical     :     12 Secunia Advisories
  Moderately Critical :     15 Secunia Advisories
  Less Critical       :     31 Secunia Advisories
  Not Critical        :      5 Secunia Advisories

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Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive,
by clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
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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