Welcome to September's edition of Internet Security News, the monthly risks bulletin detailing the latest Internet software and system vulnerabilities from NTA Monitor, a leading Internet security testing company. It provides a convenient way to keep up to date with the fast changing world of Internet security; this month's edition includes a total of 12 risk issues: 6 High, 5 Medium, 0
Low and 1 Informational.
September 2005
Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities
(High risk)
3 IE vulnerabilities have been discovered
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Early adopter of IPv6 faces problems
(Medium risk)
Cisco IOS vulnerability could cause a DoS
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Microsoft Word Vulnerabilities
(High risk)
Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in various flavours of MS Word that may allow remote code execution.
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Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
(High risk)
Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities.
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Who protects the protectors?
(High risk)
A vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus, which potentially can be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system by causing a heap-based buffer overflow.
The vulnerability has been reported in Sophos Anti-Virus Small Business Edition and in Sophos Anti-Virus versions prior to 3.96.0 and prior to 4.5.4.
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VERITAS Backup Exec / NetBackup Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability
(Medium risk)
A locally-exploitable vulnerability has been discovered in Backup Exec.
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At the cusp of Zero-Day Exploit
(Informational)
More than 100 companies have been hit by computer viruses that exploit a recently found loophole in Windows barely a week after the advisory was released by Microsoft.
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Publishing software giant publishes bug
(High risk)
Adobe has released a buffer overflow flaw. An update is also made available.
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Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities
(High risk)
Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes more than 40 vulnerabilities.
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Opera belts out new version
(Medium risk)
Opera software has released a new version of their popular browser, which corrects several vulnerabilities.
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Microsoft Patch Train
(Medium risk)
The regular MS Patch Train carries six passengers this month, with three critical updates.
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Windows Remote Desktop Protocol DoS Vulnerability
(Medium risk)
Remote Desktop Services in Windows maybe exploited to cause DoS
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