CDSA News

Vulnerability and Patch Report, Feb. 9, 2014 (Citadel Information Group)

Important Security Updates

Adobe Flash Player: Adobe has released updates for its Flash Player to fix an extremely critical vulnerability. Updates are available through the program or from Adobe’s Flash Web Site.

AVG Antivirus Free Edition: AVG has released version 2014.0.4335 (32-bit) of its Free Edition Antivirus. Updates are available through the program or from AVG’s website.

Dropbox: Dropbox has released version 2.6.8 for its file hosting program. Updates are available at Dropbox’s website. [See Citadel’s warning below]

Google Chrome: Google has released version 32.0.1700.107 of Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame to fix a highly critical vulnerability in previous versions. Updates are available through the program.

Microsoft Windows: Microsoft has released an update to several versions of Windows, including Windows 8.1 and Server 2012, to fix a highly critical vulnerability caused by the bundling of Adobe Flash Player within Internet Explorer. Updates are available through Windows Updates in the Control Panel.

Mozilla Firefox: Mozilla has released version 27.0 to fix at least 11 highly critical vulnerabilities in unpatched prior versions. Updates are available through the browser. Updates are also available for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey.

Opera: Opera has released version 19.0.1326.59. Updates are available from within the browser or from Opera’s website.

VLC Media Player: VLC has released version 2.1.3 (32-bit) of its Media Player. Download from the VLC website.

 

Current Software Versions

Adobe Flash 12.0.0.44 [Windows 7: IE]

Adobe Flash 12.0.0.44 [Windows 7: Firefox, Mozilla]

Adobe Flash 12.0.0.44 [Windows 8: IE]

Adobe Flash 12.0.0.44 [Macintosh OS X: Firefox, Opera, Safari]

Adobe Reader 11.0.06

Dropbox 2.6.8

Firefox 27.0

Google Chrome 32.0.1700.107

Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.16476 [Windows 7: IE]

Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.16384 [Windows 8: IE]

Java SE 7 Update 51