Archive for the 'Computing' Category

WordPress Remote Command Execution

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

The SANS Institute has unconfirmed reports that all WordPress version (2.0.2 and prior) are vulnerable to a remote command execution vulnerability and an IP spoofing attack. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker can cause servers which open user registration or open account information modification to execute arbitrary commands with the privilege of the web [...]

Microsoft WMF Patch released

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Microsoft has finally released a patch for the WMF buffer overrun exploit in Windows, so we can all breath a sigh of relief (at least until the next ime). As a software professional, I really pity the engineers at Microsoft - having to suffer the decisions made in designing Windows over the last 15 [...]

Xen 3.0 released

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Xen 3.0 is out, with lots of new features including the ability to run unmodified OSes on virtualization enabled hardware (e.g. Windows on Intel VT-x processors), SMP guest operating systems, compatible with large (>4GB) memory and AGP/DRM graphics enabled. Time to go out and buy one of those fancy new processors.
Here’s the announcement from [...]