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Secunia Advisories
August 19, 2005

From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

Below are the Secunia Security Advisories rated as Highly Critical (or higher) from August 19, 2005.

  • Secunia Advisory 16475
    LiveSupport PEAR XML_RPC Nested XML Tags PHP Code Execution
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: A vulnerability has been reported in LiveSupport, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16475/

  • Secunia Advisory 16504
    Zorum prod.php Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: rgod has discovered a vulnerability in Zorum, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

      Input passed to the "argv[1]" parameter in gorum/prod.php is not properly sanitised before being used in the "system()" function. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands on the server.

    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16504/

  • Secunia Advisory 16505
    Gentoo update for acroread
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: Gentoo has issued an update for acroread. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16505/
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