Four security vulnerabilities exist in the BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine and Portmapper products that would allow a remote attacker to bring down the services. Effected products are:

BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.5
BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.1
BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11 for Windows
BrightStor Enterprise Backup r10.5
BrightStor ARCserve Backup v9.01
CA Server Protection Suite r2
CA Business Protection Suite r2
CA Business Protection Suite for Microsoft Small Business Server Standard Edition r2
CA Business Protection Suite for Microsoft Small Business Server Premium Edition r2

Patches may be downloaded following the link to CAs SupportConnect website.

Redhat released the latest of their flagship product Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 on May 15th. This version ships with many enhancements including Xen server virtualization software.

http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/advanced/

Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003. Read Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Installation and Deployment Guide for additional details on Enterprise rollout or Installing and Deploying Updates for Windows Server 2003 for single systems.

“REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — . ARC Advisory Group, a leading independent research firm in manufacturing and supply chain management, has named Oracle the leading supplier in the worldwide master data management (MDM) market. In ARC Advisory Group’s recently published report entitled, “Master Data Management Worldwide Outlook Market Analysis and Forecast Through 2011,” Oracle is the clear MDM industry leader with 39.8 percent market share of total MDM software and services, and year-over-year growth of close to 50 percent.(1) IBM placed at a distant second compared to Oracle with 8.8 percent market share.(2)”

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“Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle(r) Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3, the latest release of Oracle’s enterprise management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 includes increased management capabilities for packaged applications and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware as well as significantly improved lifecycle management capabilities.
Oracle today also announced the general availability of Oracle Application Management Packs for the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s Siebel CRM — making Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 the industry’s most complete application management solution. Oracle introduced the Oracle Management Pack for PeopleSoft Enterprise in October 2006. With these new capabilities customers can manage their applications and underlying infrastructure to help improve application availability and business transaction performance with a single, integrated management solution.”

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A vulnerability has been identified in MySQL, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is due to an error in the “filesort()” [filesort.cc] routine when processing a single-row subselect query sorted via the “ORDER BY” clause, which could be exploited by malicious users to crash an affected database by executing a specially crafted SQL query.

Affected Products:
MySQL versions prior to 5.0.37

Solution:
Upgrade to MySQL version 5.0.37 :
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/