OpenVPN patched four vulnerabilities privately disclosed by Dutch researcher Guido Vranken, including a critical issue that could lead to remote code execution.

VMware patched a vulnerability in Workstation and Fusion that could allow an attacker to run code on a host machine.

Obihai Technology recently patched vulnerabilities in its ObiPhone IP phones that could have led to memory corruption, buffer overflow, and denial of service conditions, among other outcomes. The California-based company manufactures IP-enabled phones and VOIP telephone adapters it calls OBi devices. David Tomaschik, a member of Google’s security team, discovered the issues in ObiPhone during a black...

Adobe rolled out its monthly patch release today, and the news isn’t necessarily what was patched, but what wasn’t. For the first time since January, Adobe did not release a security update for Flash Player. Given Flash’s legacy of being a target-rich environment for cybercriminals and advanced attackers, a month without Flash patches is quite...

The libarchive programming library was recently patched against three critical memory-related vulnerabilities that could be abused to execute code on computers running the vulnerable software. As is the case with most open source software packages, patching the core library is only half the battle; admins must now ensure that third-party software running the library is...

Mozilla yesterday updated Firefox and patched 10 vulnerabilities, one which was rated critical. Firefox 46 also included patches for four vulnerabilities that Mozilla rated as high severity. Critical bugs enabled remote code execution without user interaction, while bugs rated high can be exploited to steal browser data or inject code into websites via the browser....

The Zero Day Initiative has publicly disclosed a pair of serious vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime for Windows that will not be patched because Apple is deprecating the product for the Microsoft platform. US-CERT today pushed out an alert advising QuickTime for Windows users that the only mitigation is to uninstall the software. “Computers running QuickTime...