Word flaw could lead to denial of service
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A highly critical vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, an advisory from security advisory service Secunia says.
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A new variant of the Mydoom worm that exploits an unpatched flaw in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer browser is in the wild and posing particular risk to home and small business users, security experts warn.
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Exploit code targets a flaw that generated a government warning last week.
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Computer security firm Secunia has reported what it terms a "highly critical" vulnerability in the popular Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Word desktop computer application. The firm has confirmed the existence of the hole in versions of Word as recent as Word 2000.
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A bug in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0 can let hackers spoof Web content, such as a trusted site, with their own fake content, the Redmond
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A directory reversal within "flat" extensions could lead to system profile attacks.
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Blog: Popular add-ons could have their update process hijacked by man-in-the-middle attacks.
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(InfoWorld) - A security researcher has found a serious vulnerability in an aging yet widely used software program used for the Internet's addressing system, prompting the software's maintainers to retire the affected version. The flaw within Berkeley Internet Name Domain 8 (Bind 8) software could misdirect users to a fraudulent Web site even if a user typed in the correct URL (uniform resource locator), wrote Amit Klein, chief technology officer for security vendor Trusteer. Klein discovered the problem. Users are being advised to upgrade to Bind 9.4, the latest version of the software, which underwent an architectureÂ rewrite to improve security. The software, looked after by the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), is free to download. ISC issued an interim patch, but due to other weaknesses in the software, ISC is also ending support for Bind 8. "It's never easy to retire a product," wrote the organization in an advisory. "The security issues of Bind 8 are many, and seven years after the release of Bind 9, ISC must devote our efforts to maintaining and enhancing the current version." About 14 percent of the DNS servers on the Internet in 2006 were still using Bind 8, according to Infoblox, which conducts an annual survey of DNS servers. "Bind 8 is still a very popular DNS server nowadays, thus this attack applies to a big part of Internet users," Klein wrote. In a research paper, Klein described a weakness in the algorithm Bind 8 uses to generate transaction IDs, apparently random serial numbers that allow it to spot whether someone is trying to supply it with false information in respose to queries. The weakness makes it possible to observe a few queries and then predict the transaction ID in the sequence, Klein wrote. Using that information, an attacker can then send erroneous information to the DNS server, "poisoning" the address stored against a particular domain name in its memory cache. Thus, traffic intended for a certain Web site from users of that DNS server can be diverted to another server containing a fraudulent site, a deception known as "pharming." Although Bind 9 has a better transaction ID algorithm, it could also be vulnerable, Klein wrote. Â
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Ziff Davis - Anti-Santy-Worm V4 attempts to patch vulnerable Web forum software but might cause denial-of-service attacks.
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Vulnerability, rated as highly critical, could enable an attacker to compromise a user's machine.
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It&#39;s not just the privacy issue of multiple users on a computer and the tool indexing everyone&#39;s contents anymore. According to a Rice University computer scientist, the flaw could allow an attacker to search
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No end to the madness in sight Hackers have released an exploit targeting a third unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The flaw is different from the two previous Word vulnerabilities reported earlier this month, US CERT helpfully explains.â¦
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Zero-day flaw, which is could let attacker gain remote access to a system, affects Word 2000, 2002 and 2003 and Word Viewer 2003.
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Companies that have not patched servers against the Windows Internet Naming Service flaw need to act fast, according to a security site.
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A flaw in popular Windows server software could allow remote attacks to be launched against systems, Microsoft has confirmed. The vulnerability is in Windows Internet Name Service, or WINS, a network infrastructure
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A flaw in Microsoft Word 2000, and possibly Word 2002, could be used by hackers to crash PCs or run other code on the compromised machine.
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For the third time this week, hackers have released attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The proof-of-concept code, which addresses a previously unknown Word vulnerability, was posted Tuesday.