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Saturday, 04 September 2010
MySQL Buffer Overflow; Secure PHP Coding PDF Print
Articles - Kernel Programming
Courtesy: guri  
Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open-source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer-overflows in MySQL, analog, vixie cron, and Kerberos IV; problems with kicq, licq, and kaim; root exploits in NetBSD i386 kernels; and a discussion of insecure coding with PHP and MySQL using a vulnerability in PHP-Nuke as an example.
 
FTP Buffer Overflows PDF Print
Articles - Desktop application development on Linux
Courtesy: duke  
Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open-source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in many FTP daemons, Oracle Application Server, Solaris ipcs, Solaris Xsun, and a whole list of programs in SCO OpenServers; temporary file race conditions in pine and pico; format string bugs in HylaFAX and cfingerd; a bug that allows Netscape to execute JavaScript placed in a GIF comment; and problems in Midnight Commander, mkpasswd, Alcatel ADSL-Ethernet Bridges, and Interscan VirusWall.'
 
Freedom or Power? PDF Print
Articles - Desktop application development on Linux
Courtesy: mike  
Freedom is being able to make decisions that affect mainly you. Power is being able to make decisions that affect others more than you. If we confuse power with freedom, we will fail to uphold real freedom. That is what Tim O'Reilly did in his essay, My Definition of Freedom Zero. He advocated a "basic freedom" which is really a form of power.
 
Multi-Homed Server Vulnerabilities PDF Print
Articles - Linux application development resource
Courtesy: guri  
Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open-source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in ircd, ePerl, MIT Kerberos 4 and 5, ascdc, and slrn; temporary file problems in MIT Kerberos 4 and 5, the GNU C Library, and the Athena widget libraries; other problems with proftpd under Debian, Midnight Commander, Cisco Aironet 340 Bridges, and man2html; and a discussion of loopback devices and multi-homed routing.
 
OpenBSD Local Root Exploit PDF Print
Articles - Desktop application development on Linux
Courtesy: mike  
Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open-source security advisories. In this column, we look at a race condition in the OpenBSD kernel; cross-site request forgeries; a new version of tcpdump; buffer overflows in rxvt, fetchmail, the HP-UX implementation of CDE, and UW-IMAP; a symbolic-link race condition in mandb; and vulnerabilities in SITEWare Editor's Desktop, Apache under Mac OS X client, LPRng, Caldera's Volution, and Slackware 7.1's /etc/shells.
 
SAMBA Remote Root Exploit PDF Print
Articles - Linux application development resource
Courtesy: Aman  
Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open-source security advisories. In this column, we look at buffer overflows in the GazTek HTTP Daemon, Solaris Printer Daemon, and w3m; a problem in default SAMBA installations that can be used to gain root access; and problems in Cisco 6400 NRP2, udirectory, Tarantella, Oracle 8i SQLNet, Formmail.pl, OS X directory permissions, and kdesu.
 
Alfresco ECM, With a Dash of Web 2.0 PDF Print
Articles - Linux User Groups
Courtesy: Aman  
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has always been about managing and connecting to content. Open source startup Alfresco is taking the ECM model a step further with the help of Web 2.0 approaches for the Alfresco Community Release 2.1.
 
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