CPU Bugs, Patches and Vulnerability
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PC Magazine - Opinion: CPUs, like software, have always had bugs. The security implications of this are a relatively new problem, and open-source users may be at a disadvantage.
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Unpatched vulnerabilities may leave computers open to remote attacks.
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Jikes is a great compiler but they could really benefit from better project management.  This bug  has been open for greater than 3 years now with no resolution.  One of the developers sent me a *private* email (without commenting or closing the bug) this this could be fixed by avoiding the use of symlinks but wasn't sure. Of course this email was sent more than 2 years ago so I have no decent way of finding it.  Adding insult to injury is the fact that IBM won't let me comment on the bug without an account.  The only problem is that my account won't activate.  In a nutshell if you want to use incremental compile with jikes you need to specify relative paths not full paths.  For example if y ...
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New flaws in VMware's virtual machine shine the spotlight on issues of virtualization security.
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Last weekend's disclosure of an alleged security vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, exploited by a new version of an old worm, is raising questions over what constitutes the severity of an exploit. Is it the degree to which we know about it, or the number of systems out there it could possibly hurt?
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Incoming Security researchers irked at Oracle's tardiness at releasing patches for security bugs plan to name a different vulnerability in Oracle's enterprise software every day for a week in December.â¦
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Software update patches bug in wireless drivers that left systems vulnerable.
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Exploit code for two of Tuesday's patches have been posted to mailing lists by researchers.
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com December 8, 2004, 2:48 PM PT. Several flaws in common Linux code used to process graphics in the GNOME desktop environment could allow an attacker to compromise a computer that
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The latest bug is the fifth systems-related problem so far this year.
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Three different ActiveX vulnerabilities affect Yahoo Instant Messenger version 3.5,  and Yahoo Messenger versions 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5
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A stitch in time... Microsoft this week pushed out a patch to resolve a flaw in its patching system.â¦
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Sample code that exploits a yet-to-be-fixed Windows flaw is circulating. Microsoft plans to deal with it on the next Patch Tuesday.
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More than two months after HD Moore's "Month of Browser Bugs," Microsoft is still scrambling to patch most of the 22 IE vulnerabilities revealed in July -- not to mention the 70 others Moore found in August.
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New software addresses a vulnerability that allowed previous versions to crash and execute arbitrary code.
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News of holes in security appliances come a few days after company patches operating system bugs.
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Stefan Esser takes a look back at the first week (or so) of the Month of PHP Bugs he's doing for the month of March:   We are on day 5 of the Month of PHP Bugs, meanwhile details for 11 Vulnerabilities were disclosed, including 2 Bonus vulnerabilities covering local root vulnerabilities in the Zend Platform.   He mentions that, on the whole, the reaction has been positive, with those few out there that have their own thoughts on the bugs (such as one issues causing two bugs or that other bugs aren't viable because they're not included in a released version of PHP).