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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — krita — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory Related CVEs: CVE-2025-59820 Upstream summary: In KDE Krita before 5.2.13, loading a manipulated TGA file could result in a heap-based buffer overflow in plugins/impex/tga/kis_tga_import.cpp (aka KisTgaImport). Control flow proceeds even when […]

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Alpine Linux 3.20 — confuse — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.20 — confuse — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.20 / fixed in 3.2.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — confuse 3.2.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14447 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.20 ships confuse 3.2.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2018-14447. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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Alpine Linux 3.20 — collectd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.20 — collectd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.20 / fixed in 5.5.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — collectd 5.5.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6254 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vv3.20 ships collectd 5.5.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2016-6254. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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FreeBSD 14 — php5-mbstring — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — php5-mbstring — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php-mbstring — php mbstring buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2008-5557 Upstream summary: SecurityFocus reports: PHP is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform boundary checks before copying […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libvpx9 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libvpx9 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory RHSA-2024:9827 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2024-5197 Upstream summary: There exists interger overflows in libvpx in versions prior to 1.14.1. Calling vpx_img_alloc() with a large value of the d_w, d_h, or […]

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Windows Server 2019 — KB5066129 — security update — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2019 — KB5066129 — security update — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Windows Server 2019 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Microsoft KB5066129 • MSRC update-guide entry Related CVEs: CVE-2025-55248 Affected components: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 AND 4.7.2 on Windows Server 2019 Microsoft summary: Inadequate encryption strength in .NET.NET Framework, Visual Studio allows an […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — pam-pkcs11 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — pam-pkcs11 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 May 2025 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7363-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-24032 CVE-2025-24531 Upstream summary: Marcus Rückert and Matthias Gerstner discovered that PAM-PKCS#11 did not properly handle certain return codes when authentication was not possible. An attacker could […]

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Alpine Linux 3.20 — opensc — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.20 — opensc — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.20 / fixed in 0.25.1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — opensc 0.25.1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-5992 CVE-2024-1454 CVE-2023-40660 CVE-2023-40661 CVE-2023-4535 CVE-2020-26570 CVE-2020-26571 CVE-2020-26572  +12 more Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vv3.20 ships opensc 0.25.1-r0 which […]

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CentOS Stream 9 — transfig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on CentOS Stream 9

CentOS Stream 9 — transfig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 May 2025 Affected versions: CentOS Stream 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux/RHEL advisory ALSA-2026:0700 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-46397 Upstream summary: The transfig utility creates a makefile which translates FIG (created by xfig) or PIC figures into a specified LaTeX graphics language (for example, PostScript(TM)). Transfig […]

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Alpine Linux 3.19 — kea — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.19 — kea — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.19 / fixed in 1.7.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — kea 1.7.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-6472 CVE-2019-6473 CVE-2019-6474 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.19 ships kea 1.7.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2019-6472. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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