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Ubuntu 16.04 — pngcrush — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — pngcrush — 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-5236-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-7700 Upstream summary: Brian Carpenter discovered that pngcrush incorrectly handled specially crafted file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Table […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — gst-plugins-base1.0 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — gst-plugins-base1.0 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3244-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-9811 CVE-2017-5837 CVE-2017-5839 CVE-2017-5842 CVE-2017-5844 Upstream summary: Hanno Böck discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle certain malformed media files. If a user were tricked […]

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SLES 12 — texlive-kastrup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — texlive-kastrup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2024:1203-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10243 Upstream summary: TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file. Table […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — novnc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — novnc — 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-4522-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-18635 Upstream summary: It was discovered that noVNC did not properly manage certain messages, resulting in the remote VNC server injecting arbitrary HTML into the noVNC web […]

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SLES 12 — dracut — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — dracut — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2015:2065-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-0794 CVE-2012-4453 CVE-2016-8637 Upstream summary: modules.d/90crypt/module-setup.sh in the dracut package before 037-17.30.1 in openSUSE 13.2 allows local users to have unspecified impact via a symlink […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — augeas — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — augeas — 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-3400-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7555 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Augeas incorrectly handled certain strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause Augeas to crash, leading to a denial […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — nagios3 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — nagios3 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3253-2 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1690380 CVE-2013-7108 CVE-2013-7205 CVE-2014-1878 CVE-2016-9566 Upstream summary: USN-3253-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Nagios. The update prevented log files from being displayed in the web interface. This update fixes […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libxfont — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libxfont — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3500-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-16611 CVE-2017-13720 CVE-2017-13722 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libXfont incorrectly followed symlinks when opening font files. A local unprivileged user could use this issue to cause […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — lame — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — lame — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4780-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-9099 CVE-2015-9100 CVE-2015-9101 CVE-2017-13712 CVE-2017-15018 CVE-2017-11720 CVE-2017-9411 CVE-2017-8419  +4 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that LAME incorrectly handled certain audio files. A remote attacker could possibly […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — glance — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — glance — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3446-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5251 CVE-2015-5286 CVE-2016-0757 CVE-2014-5356 Upstream summary: Hemanth Makkapati discovered that OpenStack Glance incorrectly handled access restrictions. A remote authenticated user could use this issue to change the […]

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