Microsoft

As a reminder, Microsoft is planning to release two security bulletins today, March 9, 2010. Both bulletins carry a maximum severity rating of important and the issues addressed could lead to remote code execution. The first bulletin applies to various versions of Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and is rated as [...]

Posted on March 9, 2010 at 3:16 PM by root · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Apache HTTP server 2.2.15

Apache has released HTTP Server version 2.2.15, which addresses a number of security exposures in prior versions of the HTTP server. Of particular note is the updating of the OpenSSL library to 0.9.8m which addresses the renegotiation issues outlined in CVE-2009-3555. At the time of writing, the links to the complete [...]

Posted on March 9, 2010 at 3:14 PM by root · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Microsoft MS10-015 BSOD Issue

Microsoft has acknowledged that there is an issue when applying the update related to advisory MS10-015 on systems that are infected with certain malware strains including one called “Tidserv”. These infected systems have a high likelihood of becoming unbootable displaying a PAGE_FAULT “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) error. Microsoft has [...]

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:19 AM by root · Permalink · Leave a comment
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MS10-002

Microsoft has released MS10-002 today. The update addresses 7 privately reported and 1 publicly reported vulnerability which is associated with the widely publicized attacks associated with Security Advisory 979352. There are four (4) Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, two (2) HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities, one (1) XSS Filter Script Handling Vulnerability, and one (1) URL [...]

Posted on January 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM by root · Permalink · Leave a comment
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