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Alpine Linux edge — seatd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — seatd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 0.6.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — seatd 0.6.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-41387 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships seatd 0.6.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-41387. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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FreeBSD 13 — irssi-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — irssi-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: irssi — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2010-1155 CVE-2010-1156 Upstream summary: Two vulnerabilities have found in irssi. The first issue could allow man-in-the-middle attacks due to a missing comparison of SSL […]

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Debian 11 – time synchronization fails causing TLS and auth errors

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 May 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py37-Scrapy — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py37-Scrapy — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-Scrapy — DoS vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14158 CVE-2022-0577 Upstream summary: kmike and nramirezuy report: Scrapy 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via large files […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-util/schroot — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-util/schroot — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202210-11 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-2787 Upstream summary: schroot is unecessarily permissive in rules regarding chroot and session names. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step […]

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FreeBSD 13 — dropbear — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — dropbear — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 May 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Privoxy — Multiple vulnerabilities (memory leak, XSS) Related CVEs: CVE-2012-0920 CVE-2013-4421 CVE-2013-4434 CVE-2016-3116 CVE-2016-7406 CVE-2016-7407 CVE-2016-7408 CVE-2016-7409  +6 more Upstream summary: Privoxy reports: cgi_error_no_template(): Encode the template name to prevent […]

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FreeBSD 13 — p5-UI-Dialog — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — p5-UI-Dialog — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: p5-UI-Dialog — shell command execution vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2008-7315 Upstream summary: Matthijs Kooijman reports: It seems that the whiptail, cdialog and kdialog backends apply some improper escaping in their shell […]

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FreeBSD 13 — nbsmtp — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — nbsmtp — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: nbsmtp — format string vulnerability Upstream summary: When nbsmtp is executed in debug mode, server messages will be printed to stdout and logged via syslog. Syslog is used insecurely and […]

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How to Configure Mandatory Access Control on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Mandatory Access Control on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Configure Mandatory Access Control on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet […]

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FreeBSD 13 — punbb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — punbb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: punbb — NULL byte injection vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4759 Upstream summary: CVE Mitre reports: PunBB 1.2.12 does not properly handle an avatar directory pathname ending in %00, which allows remote […]

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