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FYI…
- http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/pp.php?id=116770232&
10/10/2006
"The number of new software security vulnerabilities identified by security experts, hackers and others during the first eight months of this year has already exceeded the total recorded for all of 2005, according to Internet Security Systems. Vulnerabilities through September have reached 5,300, leaping past the 5,195 discovered for all of 2005, says Gunter Ollmann, director of the X-Force research group at ISS. "Eight hundred seventy-one were found to affect Microsoft operating systems, while 701 vulnerabilities were only found to affect Unix operating systems," Ollmann says. But many vulnerabilities cross platform boundaries to affect them all, including Linux. About 3,219 vulnerabilities fall into that realm, Ollmann notes. "So the volume seems to be Linux-based because there are so many versions of Linux," he says… The biggest single classes of vulnerabilities in 2006 so far, according to ISS, would allow cross-site scripting (14.5 percent), SQL injection (10.9 percent); buffer overflows (10.8 percent) and Web directory path traversal (3 percent). Of the 5,300 vulnerabilities identified during 2006 so far, 87.6 percent could be exploited remotely; 10.8 percent could be exploited from the local host only; and 1.6 percent could be exploited remotely and local…"
- http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/pp.php?id=116770232&
10/10/2006
"The number of new software security vulnerabilities identified by security experts, hackers and others during the first eight months of this year has already exceeded the total recorded for all of 2005, according to Internet Security Systems. Vulnerabilities through September have reached 5,300, leaping past the 5,195 discovered for all of 2005, says Gunter Ollmann, director of the X-Force research group at ISS. "Eight hundred seventy-one were found to affect Microsoft operating systems, while 701 vulnerabilities were only found to affect Unix operating systems," Ollmann says. But many vulnerabilities cross platform boundaries to affect them all, including Linux. About 3,219 vulnerabilities fall into that realm, Ollmann notes. "So the volume seems to be Linux-based because there are so many versions of Linux," he says… The biggest single classes of vulnerabilities in 2006 so far, according to ISS, would allow cross-site scripting (14.5 percent), SQL injection (10.9 percent); buffer overflows (10.8 percent) and Web directory path traversal (3 percent). Of the 5,300 vulnerabilities identified during 2006 so far, 87.6 percent could be exploited remotely; 10.8 percent could be exploited from the local host only; and 1.6 percent could be exploited remotely and local…"