Adobe next week plans to release updates for its Reader and Acrobat software to fix critical security issues, the company said in a notification security advisory issued Thursday. Updates will be available for Reader and Acrobat X (10.0) for Windows and Mac; Acrobat 9.4.1 and earlier versions for Windows and Mac and Reader 9.4.1. and earlier versions for Windows, Mac and Unix. Updates for Windows and Mac are scheduled to be released on Tuesday, while Unix users will have to wait until Feb. 28 for a fix. – AM
Included in the exposed dataset labeled "PDL" were individuals' full names, email addresses, phone numbers, location data, professional summaries, and skills, as well as education and employment histories.
Attackers could leverage the issue — which impacts Nexus 3000, 7000, and 9000 series switches with vulnerable NX-OS versions with DHCPv6 activated and are in standalone NX-OS mode — to facilitate continuous crashes of the dhcp_snoop process and a denial-of-service condition.
Higher rewards of up to $250,000 will be given by Google for the discovery of memory corruption flaws in the Chrome browser shown to achieve remote code execution using a non-sandboxed process as part of a more robust vulnerability reward program.