December 2016 - Page 3 of 3

Ubuntu 16.04 — node-minimatch — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — node-minimatch — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4783-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10540 Upstream summary: It was discovered that minimatch did not perform necessary bounds checking on regular expressions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — evolution-data-server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — evolution-data-server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3724-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10727 Upstream summary: Jon Kristensen discovered that Evolution Data Server would automatically downgrade a connection to an IMAP server if the IMAP server did not support SSL. […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — r-base — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — r-base — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4799-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-8714 Upstream summary: It was discovered that a buffer overflow in R causes memory corruption. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service […]

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