IT Security: US Cert released latest vulnerability summary
On 17 May 2011, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) released its Vulnerability Summary for the week of 9 May 2011. As usual, some programmes in widespread use appear, as does more specialist software such as that used in back offices of large corporations.
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Sanctions: USA PATRIOT Act designation 20120522Sanctions: OFAC Update 20120515
Sanctions: OFAC update 20120508
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High Vulerability:
Google Chrome
HP - OpenView Storage Data Protector
Inventivetec -- Mediacast
Liferay - Portal
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Powerpoint
Mozilla Firefox and Sea Monkey
NEC IP38x / 1000
Samsung Data Management Server
Skype (on OS X)
Medium and low vulnerabilities include (not full list)
Linux Kernal
HP Palm Web OS
Opera browser
PERL
POSTFIX
VMware
Apache
Rubyforge
For more information see http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB11-136.html