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Tuesday
Jun282011

Condition Remains GREEN

Google has released Chrome 12.0.742.112 to the Stable Channel which includes an update for Flash Player. 

The update addresses the following issues:

  • [$1000] [77493] Medium CVE-2011-2345: Out-of-bounds read in NPAPI string handling. Credit to Philippe Arteau.
  • [$1000] [84355] High CVE-2011-2346: Use-after-free in SVG font handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [85003] High CVE-2011-2347: Memory corruption in CSS parsing. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$500] [85102] High CVE-2011-2350: Lifetime and re-entrancy issues in the HTML parser. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$500] [85177] High CVE-2011-2348: Bad bounds check in v8. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
  • [$1000] [85211] High CVE-2011-2351: Use-after-free with SVG use element. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [85418] High CVE-2011-2349: Use-after-free in text selection. Credit to miaubiz.

Users should review their Flash Player Setting once the update is applied. 

Thursday
Jun232011

Condition Remains GREEN

Apple has released Mac OSX v 10.6.8 and Security Update 2011-004. This update does requirer a reboot and should be applied. It includes the following high level fixes:

Mac OSX

  • Enhance the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion
  • Resolve an issue that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit
  • Improve support for IPv6
  • Improve VPN reliability
  • Identify and remove known variants of Mac Defender 

Mac OSX Server:

  • Properly displaying videos in Wiki pages when viewed from Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers
  • Reliability of using sharepoints with Time Machine
  • Reliability of vacation mail notices
  • Improved reliability of processing international character encodings in iCal Server
  • Improved authentication support when accessing iCal Server from iOS devices
  • Properly enabling previous updates in Software Update Server
  • Improved reliability for cascading Software Update Servers