Security Updates | 2009-08-10

I track security updates for the following vendors: Apple, Cisco, FreeBSD, Microsoft, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems. I chose these vendors based on my own needs for the networks and systems I manage. I’ve also found that updates from these vendors tend to catch the major updates necessary for common software applications. If you have other vendors you would like me to provide updates for, send me a message.

Red Hat, Inc.

• RHSA-2009:1203 Important: subversion security update
• RHSA-2009:1204 Moderate: apr and apr-util security update
• RHSA-2009:1205 Moderate: httpd security and bug fix update
• RHSA-2009:1206 Moderate: libxml and libxml2 security update

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

• Security Vulnerability in the Active Template Library in Various Releases of Microsoft Visual Studio Used by the Java Web Start ActiveX Control May Be Leveraged to Execute Arbitrary Code
• A Security Vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) With Parsing XML Data May Allow a Remote Client to Create a Denial of Service (DoS) Condition
• Security Vulnerability May Allow Popup Windows to Appear Through the Solaris XScreenSaver Program on Xorg(1) Servers
• Security Vulnerability in Sun VirtualBox May Lead to Denial of Service (DoS)
• Security Vulnerability in Sun Java System Access Manager May Provide Security Information to the Wrong Client