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The Philippine Exchange Rates for 2008 (January to August)
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Data from the National Statistics Office (NSO) shows that August inflation was at 12.5 percent, up from the revised 12.3 percent hike in July. Inflation from January to August is now at 8.8 percent. This shows an inflation rate close to a 17-year high for the Philippines.
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According to the NSO, commodities recorded higher inflation except those under food, beverage and tobacco.
Food inflation was at 18.1 percent in August compared to 18.6 percent in July. Inflation of rice is down to 45.1 percent compared to 50 percent in July. The …
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clamav: Crash with crafted chm, CVE-2008-1389
References
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1389 http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-1389-clamav-chd.html http://www.int21.de/cve/cve-2008-1389-samples.tar.bz2 https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1089
Description
A fuzzing test showed weakness in the chm parser of clamav, which can possibly be exploited. The clamav team has disabled the chm module in older versions though freshclam updates and has released 0.94 with a fixed parser.
The clamav team has not mentioned this issue in the release notes of 0.94, which is very bad security …
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