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Secunia Advisory 16478
Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship Buffer Overflow- Criticality: High
- Description: Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when using "sprintf()" to create a message string containing the nickname of a new user joining the game. This can potentially be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via an overly long nickname.
- Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16478/
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Secunia Advisory 16480
Microsoft Design Tools msdds.dll Code Execution Vulnerability- Criticality: High
- Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when the "msdds.dll" (Microsoft Design Tools - Diagram Surface) COM object is instantiated in the Internet Explorer browser.
- Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16480/
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Secunia Advisory 16482
Fedora update for cups- Criticality: High
- Description: Fedora has issued an update for cups. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system.
- Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16482/
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Secunia Advisory 16483
Fedora update for gaim- Criticality: High
- Description: Fedora has issued an update for gaim. This fixes a vulnerability and two weaknesses, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a user's system.
- Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16483/
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Secunia Advisory 16491
MailWatch for MailScanner XML-RPC PHP Code Execution- Criticality: High
- Description: A vulnerability has been reported in MailWatch for MailScanner, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
- Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16491/
Below are the Secunia Security Advisories rated as Highly Critical (or higher) from August 18, 2005.
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