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Oracle Security, Compliance, and Identity Management resources, news, and support articles.

CVE-2012-3410 stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Bash

CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution

CVE-2012-3410 Buffer overflow vulnerability
4.6
Bash

Solaris 10
SPARC:

CVE-2011-0465 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in X.Org

CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution

CVE-2011-0465 Improper Input Validation vulnerability
9.3
X.Org

Solaris 10
SPARC:

Understanding and performing IPv4 subnetting

Subnetting – it’s the subject that IT professionals love to hate. Believe it or not, the frustration that it caused me as a student years ago made me question whether I wanted to go into the information technology (IT) field. Furthermore, with the availability of many subnet calculator programs and subnetting websites, the ability to […]

Security Alert CVE-2013-1493 Released

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Standards Corner: Tokens. Can You Bear It?

This week's post is all about tokens. What are the different types of tokens that may be used in RESTful services? How are they the same/different from browser cookies? What are access tokens, artifacts, bearer tokens, and MAC tokens? If I asked you what are tokens used for, many of you would answer authentication. But there is a bit more to it than that. First, I'd like to point you to a post I

Multiple vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat

CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution

CVE-2012-2733 Improper Input Validation vulnerability
5.0
Apache Tomcat

Solaris 11.1

Multiple vulnerabilities in Gimp

CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution

CVE-2012-3403 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability
6.8
Gimp

Solaris 11.1

Multiple vulnerabilities in libxslt

CVE DescriptionCVSSv2 Base ScoreComponentProduct and Resolution

CVE-2011-1202 Information Disclosure vulnerability
5.0
libxslt

Solaris 11.1

Linux file permissions and chmod

When you view files and directories on Linux hosts, how can you tell which users have access? And how do you determine the extent of their access? Before approaching the sizable (but very important) subject of Linux (and Unix) file permissions, it is helpful to review the definitions of key terms which IT professionals need […]

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