Opera is vulnerable in parsing the JPEG file format. Discovered were four vulnerabilities, each in different segments of the file format. posidron will describe in this advisory the two important ones. 1 - ntdll.RtlAllocateHeap() DHT vulnerability 2 - ntdll.RtlAllocateHeap() SOS vulnerability Opera Mini...
Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability because of a race condition that may cause a NULL-pointer dereference, read or write operations to invalid addresses, or other memory-corruption issues. Attackers may likely exploit this issue to execute arbitrary machine...
MFSA 2006-76 XSS using outer window's Function object MFSA 2006-75 RSS Feed-preview referrer leak MFSA 2006-74 Mail header processing heap overflows MFSA 2006-73 Mozilla SVG Processing Remote Code Execution MFSA 2006-72 XSS by setting img.src to BLOCKED SCRIPT URI MFSA 2006-71 LiveConnect crash finalizing...
If you are using Opera browser, get the latest version 9.10 which is available now. One of the new security enhancement is by adding a Fraud Protection (aka Phishing filter). See Opera's Fraud Protection in action by viewing the demo at http://portal.opera.com/startup/?tip=fraud You can download it from...
The new version of open-source browser Firefox has been delayed for a month. Version 2.0, codenamed Bon Echo, had been due on 26 September but will now make its debut on 24 October. The test schedule has also been adjusted, with the second beta now appearing a week late on 23 August. The delay has been...
Mozilla Firefox is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability because of a race condition that may result in double-free or other memory-corruption issues. Attackers may likely exploit this issue to execute arbitrary machine code in the context of the vulnerable application, but this has not been...
Global usage share Mozilla Firefox has increased according to OneStat.com OneStat.com reported that Mozilla Firefox's browsers have a total global usage share of 12.93 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla Firefox increased 1.14 percent since May 2006. The total global usage share of Internet Explorer...
The IE team blogged today that Internet Explorer 7 in Windows XP and Vista can be reset if the browser become unstable due to badly written add-ons or side-effect of malware infection. They wrote... " We have heard from users on their need to recover Internet Explorer to a workable state if it reaches...
Internet Explorer "mhtml:" Redirection Disclosure of Sensitive Information Affected Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x codedreamer has discovered a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is...
The new public release of Internet Explorer Beta 2 is, according to Microsoft, more stable and ready to be used. But is it ready to go up against Firefox? Find out at http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186700892 Below is part of what Ed Bott blogged today: " If you're too busy...