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

Ubuntu 16.04 — lintian — 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-3310-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8829 Upstream summary: Jakub Wilk discovered that lintian incorrectly handled deserializing certain YAML files. If a user or automated system were tricked into running lintian on a […]

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Debian 9 — ioquake3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — ioquake3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-11721 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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

Ubuntu 16.04 — libtirpc — 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-3759-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-4429 CVE-2017-8779 CVE-2018-14622 Upstream summary: Aldy Hernandez discovered that libtirpc incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — exiv2 — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — exiv2 — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3852-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-11591 CVE-2017-11683 CVE-2017-14859 CVE-2017-14862 CVE-2017-14864 CVE-2017-17669 CVE-2017-9239 CVE-2018-16336  +7 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Exiv2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — newsbeuter — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — newsbeuter — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-4585-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-12904 CVE-2017-14500 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Newsbeuter didn't handle the command line input properly. An remote attacker could use it to ran remote code by […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libarchive-zip-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libarchive-zip-perl — 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-3703-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-10860 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the Archive Zip module incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this to access sensitive information. Table of […]

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SLES 12 — libnl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libnl — 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-2022:3207-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-0386 Upstream summary: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context […]

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

Ubuntu 16.04 — libextractor — 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-4641-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-15266 CVE-2017-15267 CVE-2017-15600 CVE-2017-15601 CVE-2017-15602 CVE-2017-15922 CVE-2017-17440 CVE-2018-14346  +4 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Libextractor incorrectly handled zero sample rate. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Debian 9 — libxml-libxml-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — libxml-libxml-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-10672 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Debian 9 — gosa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — gosa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000528 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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