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Slackware: seamonkey  16 November 2008  Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Slackware New seamonkey packages are available for Slackware 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues. More details may be found on the Mozilla web site: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey11.html
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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVA-2008:171 ] gdm  14 November 2008  Print E-mail
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Mandrake An incorrect memory deallocation was causing a crash when the GNOME display manager was exiting. This package update fixes this issue and includes additional bug fixes and translation updates.
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Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2008:229 ] clamav  14 November 2008  Print E-mail
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Mandrake An off-by-one error was found in ClamAV versions prior to 0.94.1 that could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VBA project file (CVE-2008-5050). Other bugs have also been corrected in 0.94.1 which is being provided with this update.
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Problems with Penetration Testing  14 November 2008  Print E-mail
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Source: itmanagement - Posted by Bill Keys   
Security Penetration testing is as popular as ever, yet it continues to miss the mark. As a means of validating the security of an application system, it fails miserably on several counts. I continue to find organizations that make extensive use of penetration testing as their primary means of security testing systems before they go live, or periodically while they are in production. There are a myriad of problems with this approach, but I’d like to address one particular here that you likely haven’t considered. This article looks at some of the issues with doing penetration testing. Do you do penetration testing on your applications?

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Fedora 8 Update: clamav-0.92.1-4.fc8  14 November 2008  Print E-mail
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Fedora Security fixes from upstream 0.94 and 0.94.1: CVE-2008-3912 (#461461): Multiple out-of-memory NULL pointer dereferences CVE-2008-3913 (#461461): Fix memory leak in the error code path in freshclam CVE-2008-3914 (#461461): File descriptor leak on the error code path CVE-2008-5050 (#470783): get_unicode_name() off-by-one buffer overflow
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