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SLES 15 — bogofilter-db — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — bogofilter-db — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2010:014 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2010-2494 CVE-2012-5468 Upstream summary: Multiple buffer underflows in the base64 decoder in base64.c in (1) bogofilter and (2) bogolexer in bogofilter before 1.2.2 allow remote […]

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SLES 15 — nasm — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — nasm — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2020:1843-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19214 CVE-2018-19215 CVE-2017-10686 CVE-2017-14228 CVE-2017-17810 CVE-2018-16382 CVE-2018-1000667 CVE-2018-10016  +12 more Upstream summary: Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has a heap-based buffer over-read in expand_mmac_params in asm/preproc.c […]

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SLES 15 — libserf — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libserf — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3504 Upstream summary: The (1) serf_ssl_cert_issuer, (2) serf_ssl_cert_subject, and (3) serf_ssl_cert_certificate functions in Serf 0.2.0 through 1.3.x before 1.3.7 does not properly handle a NUL […]

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SLES 12 — libgraphite2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libgraphite2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-2016:0779-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1521 CVE-2016-1523 CVE-2016-1526 CVE-2018-7999 Upstream summary: The directrun function in directmachine.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and […]

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SLES 15 — podofo — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — podofo — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8981 CVE-2017-6840 CVE-2017-6841 CVE-2017-6842 CVE-2017-6845 CVE-2017-6849 CVE-2017-8378 CVE-2018-5309  +6 more Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function in base/PdfParser.cpp in PoDoFo allows attackers […]

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

Debian 9 — mercurial — 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-2017-1000115 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 — network-manager-vpnc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — network-manager-vpnc — 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-2018-10900 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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Amazon Linux 2 — texlive — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — texlive — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2020-1461 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-17407 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — lcms2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — lcms2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3770-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10165 CVE-2018-16435 Upstream summary: Ibrahim El-Sayed discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. […]

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