BIND is one of the most popular DNS servers in the world. It comes bundled with almost every cPanel, VPS and dedicated server installation and is used by most DNS providers. A week ago, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) team released a patch for a serious denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2015-5477) that allows a remoteRead […]
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Joomla! 3.3.5 Released – Fixing High Priority Security Issues
The Joomla team just released versions 3.3.5, 3.2.6 and 2.5.26, patching security issues. The first one is an Remote File Include (RFI) vulnerability and the second one is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability that affect all previous versions. If you are using Joomla, stop what you are doing and update it now! What’s very […]
WordPress and Drupal Core Denial Of Service Vulnerability – Moderately Critical
Both WordPress and Drupal are affected by a DoS (denial of service) vulnerability on the PHP XML parser used by their XMLRPC implementations. The issue lies in the XML entity expansion parser that can cause CPU and memory exhaustion and the site’s database to reach the maximum number of open connections. That will cause the […]
