(Jul 7) A buffer overflow has been identified in nginx, a small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server, when processing certain chunked transfer encoding requests if proxy_pass to untrusted upstream HTTP servers is used. An attacker may use this flaw to perform denial of service [More…]
Archive for July, 2013
Debian: 2720-1: icedove: Multiple vulnerabilities
(Jul 6) Multiple security issues have been found in Icedove, Debian’s version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client. Multiple memory safety errors, use-after-free vulnerabilities, missing permission checks, incorrect memory handling and other implementaton errors may lead to the execution [More…]
(Jul 8) Applications using Raptor could be made to expose sensitive information orrun programs as your login if they opened a specially crafted file.
(Jul 3) PyMongo could be made to crash under certain conditions.
Ubuntu: 1900-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities
(Jul 4) Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Ubuntu: 1899-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
(Jul 4) Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Red Hat: 2013:1014-01: java-1.6.0-openjdk: Important Advisory
(Jul 3) Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
(Jul 2) libvirt could be made to crash if it received specially crafted networktraffic.
Debian: 2718-1: wordpress: Multiple vulnerabilities
(Jul 2) Several vulnerabilities were identified in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. As the CVEs were allocated from releases announcements and specific fixes are usually not identified, it has been decided to upgrade the Wordpress package to the latest upstream version instead of [More…]
Ubuntu: 1896-1: Module::Signature perl module vulnerability
(Jul 3) Module::Signature could be made to run programs if it verified a signature.
(Jul 3) USN-1890-1 introduced a regression in Firefox.
The July issue of the Joomla Community Magazine is here! Our stories this month:
Editors Introduction
Happy 3rd Birthday JCM!, by Alice Grevet
Google Summer of Code
Improve Joomla! Frontend Semantics & Accessibility, by Pruteanu Alexandru
Creating com_services for Front-end Website Administration for CMS 3, by Buddhima Wijeweera
Convert JavaScript from MooTools to jQuery, by Ashan Fernando
Template Manager Improvements for CMS 3, by Ram Tripathi
Module Modernization, by Lasindu Charith
Automated Testing and System Test, by Puneet Kala
New Media Manager, by Nguyen Tran Quan
Improve Form Fields, by Achal Aggarwal
Support for Cloud Storage APIs, by Alex Marin
Designers
Thoughts on Web Design from an Inbound Marketer, by Shannon Good
Sitebuilders
How to Choose an Extension? Part 2: Support, by Mike Veeckmans
Business Matters
How to Select the Best Social Network for Roaring Business Promotions?, by krish kash
404 Error Page Best Practices [Hilarious Examples Included], by Hannah Kaufman
Joomla Industry Scenario in Brazil, by Helvecio da Silva
Administrators
How I Got My Website to Load in 1.29 Seconds, by David Attard
Is Your Joomla Site Optimized to Receive the Maximum Amount of Leads & Sales?, by John Rampton
Project News
Leadership Highlights – July 2013, by Alice Grevet
Building the Vulnerable Website, by Mandville
The Joomla! Haikus
Post your Haikus for July, by Dianne Henning
International Stories
Browse the international articles submitted this month.
In our next issue
We want to publish your Joomla! story in the next JCM issue! So take a look at our Author Resources content to get a better idea of what we are looking for, and then register to become a JCM author and submit your Joomla! story!
New version of Pre-Upgrade checker is available!
New checks have been added to File System section:
– (Linux) If it’s impossible to read, write, change owner or group inside of DUMP_D folder (by defaults, /var/lib/psa/dumps) the upgrade procedure will be failed.
– (Windows) Check that PleskSQLServer service can be started before upgrade.
(Jul 2) libcurl could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it receivedspecially crafted input.
In the July 2013 survey we received responses from 698,823,509 sites, an increase of 25.8M. Apache and nginx, both open source web servers, have lost market share this month whilst Microsoft gained significantly, up by 2.43 percentage points, to just shy of 20% of worldwide sites. For the second consecutive month, nginx is powering fewer sites […]
The following bugs have been fixed:
[-] Several issues related to the operation of Apache web server were resolved.
[-] Dedicated IIS application pool settings defined in service templates were not propagated to the subscriptions based on those templates.
Debian: 2717-1: xml-security-c: heap overflow
(Jun 28) Jon Erickson of iSIGHT Partners Labs discovered a heap overflow in xml-security-c, an implementation of the XML Digital Security specification. The fix to address CVE-2013-2154 introduced the possibility of a heap overflow in the processing of malformed XPointer [More…]
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