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NetBSD 9.4 — xenkernel20 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — xenkernel20 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged xenkernel20-[0-9]* for vulnerability class 'privilege-escalation'. Reference: http://secunia.com/advisories/53686/ Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary […]

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Debian 11 — gnome-control-center — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — gnome-control-center — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2024 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-5616 Upstream summary: In Ubuntu, gnome-control-center did not properly reflect SSH remote login status when the system was configured to use systemd socket activation for openssh-server. This could […]

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Debian 12 — logilab-common — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — logilab-common — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2014-1838 CVE-2014-1839 Upstream summary: The (1) extract_keys_from_pdf and (2) fill_pdf functions in pdf_ext.py in logilab-commons before 0.61.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly have other […]

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NetBSD 9.4 — ssmtp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — ssmtp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Related CVEs: CVE-2008-7258 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged ssmtp<2.61 for vulnerability class 'remote-user-access'. Reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce-2004/msg00084.html Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis […]

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Debian 11 — configobj — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — configobj — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2024 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-26112 Upstream summary: All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the validate function, using (.+?)\((.*)\). **Note:** This is only […]

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Alpine Linux 3.19 — pcre — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.19 — pcre — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.19 / fixed in 8.44-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — pcre 8.44-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14155 CVE-2017-7186 CVE-2017-11164 CVE-2017-16231 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.19 ships pcre 8.44-r0 which addresses CVE-2020-14155. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Debian 12 — cyclonedds — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — cyclonedds — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-38441 CVE-2021-38443 Upstream summary: Eclipse CycloneDDS versions prior to 0.8.0 are vulnerable to a write-what-where condition, which may allow an attacker to write arbitrary values in the XML […]

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Alpine Linux 3.19 — minizip — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.19 — minizip — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.19 / fixed in 1.3-r1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — minizip 1.3-r1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-45853 CVE-2018-25032 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vv3.19 ships minizip 1.3-r1 which addresses CVE-2023-45853. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — proftpd-dfsg — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — proftpd-dfsg — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7297-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-48795 CVE-2023-51713 CVE-2024-48651 Upstream summary: Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, and Jörg Schwenk discovered that the transport protocol implementation in ProFTPD had weak integrity checks. An attacker could […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — micropython — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — micropython — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2023-7158 Upstream summary: A vulnerability was found in MicroPython up to 1.21.0. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function slice_indices of the […]

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