vuln

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  1. transitive verb To wound (oneself) by biting at the breast. Used of the pelican, which was once believed to feed its young with its blood, as a heraldic motif and symbol of Christ.

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  • "What FX has shown, conclusively, is that when something comes out that can potentially compromise your router, you have to get on it as you would get on a remote vuln, for, say, your domain controllers or database servers," said Dan Kaminsky, a fellow researcher who has reviewed —  The Register
  • I like how the second result listed is actually trojan program that runs rm - rf Read through that advisory and then get back to us on the amount of things that have to be screwed up in the basic setup of a Server 2003 box before this vuln will work. —  Slashdot: Apache
  • As Redmond unwraps 'comments disabled' vuln research blog Microsoft plans to issue two security patches next Tuesday, one of which earns the dreaded rating of critical, in this year's ... —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • Can you = give me your best (highest impact) examples of what an XSS vuln can do with = out combining with other exploit techniques? —  The Web Security Mailing List (WASC)
  • The Windows-only security improvement covers Vista, XP SP2, and XP SP3, and it updates the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component for Windows to fix a vuln in which "a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution." —  The Register
 

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  1. From Latin vulnerāre, to wound; see vulnerable.

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  1. from Old French *vulnerer. from Latin vulnerare, wound: see vulnerate.
 

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