---------------------------------------------------------------------- To improve our services to our customers, we have made a number of additions to the Secunia Advisories and have started translating the advisories to German. The improvements will help our customers to get a better understanding of how we reached our conclusions, how it was rated, our thoughts on exploitation, attack vectors, and scenarios. This includes: * Reason for rating * Extended description * Extended solution * Exploit code or links to exploit code * Deep links Read the full description: http://corporate.secunia.com/products/48/?r=l Contact Secunia Sales for more information: http://corporate.secunia.com/how_to_buy/15/?r=l ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: OpenWBEM Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA22709 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/22709/ CRITICAL: Moderately critical IMPACT: Privilege escalation WHERE: >From remote SOFTWARE: OpenWBEM 3.x http://secunia.com/product/5891/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in OpenWBEM, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the random number generator when the system is configured to use local or HTTP Digest authentication. The vulnerability is reported in version 3.2.0. SOLUTION: Update to version 3.2.2. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by the vendor. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=457026&group_id=16214 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------