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VMware Patches Multiple Security Issues in Workstation

20

May

2017

VMware fixed two bugs in its VMware Workstation late Thursday night, including an insecure library loading vulnerability and a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Jann Horn, a security researcher for Google Project Zero who’s previously uncovered bugs in Xen’s hypervisor and the Linux kernel, found the library loading vulnerability in VMware’s Workstation Pro/Player product.

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Vanilla Forums Open Source Software Vulnerable to RCE, Host Header Injection Vulnerability

12

May

2017

Popular open source forum software suffers from vulnerabilities that could let an attacker gain access to user accounts, carry out web-cache poisoning attacks, and in some instances, execute arbitrary code. Legal Hackers‘ Dawid Golunski found the vulnerabilities in software which is developed by Vanilla Forums.

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Customers roast Microsoft over security bulletins’ demise

25

Apr

2017

When Microsoft asked customers last week for feedback on the portal that just replaced the decades-long practice of delivering detailed security bulletins, it got an earful from unhappy users. “Hate hate hate the new security bulletin format. HATE,” emphasized Janelle 322 in a support forum where Microsoft urged customers to post thoughts on the change.

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