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Ubuntu 16.04 — org-mode — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — org-mode — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-7375-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-28617 CVE-2024-30202 CVE-2024-30205 CVE-2024-39331 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Org Mode did not correctly handle filenames containing shell metacharacters. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — h2database — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — h2database — 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-6834-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-42392 CVE-2022-23221 Upstream summary: It was discovered that H2 was vulnerable to deserialization of untrusted data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — apparmor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — apparmor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7035-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1585 https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+bug/1597017 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the AppArmor policy compiler incorrectly generated looser restrictions than expected for rules allowing mount operations. A local attacker could […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4038-4 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1834494 CVE-2016-3189 CVE-2019-12900 Upstream summary: USN-4038-1 fixed a vulnerability in bzip2. The update introduced a regression causing bzip2 to incorrect raises CRC errors for some files. This […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — python-setuptools — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7544-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47273 CVE-2024-6345 CVE-2022-40897 Upstream summary: It was discovered that setuptools did not properly sanitize paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write files to arbitrary […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — opennds — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — opennds — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7312-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-25763 Upstream summary: It was discovered that openNDS did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — python-scrapy — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — python-scrapy — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7476-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-41125 CVE-2022-0577 CVE-2024-1892 CVE-2024-1968 CVE-2024-3572 CVE-2024-3574 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Scrapy improperly exposed HTTP authentication credentials to request targets, including during redirects. An attacker could […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — network-manager — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — network-manager — vulnerability — 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-3807-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15688 Upstream summary: Felix Wilhelm discovered that the NetworkManager internal DHCPv6 client incorrectly handled certain DHCPv6 messages. In non-default configurations where the internal DHCP client is enabled, […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — twitter-bootstrap3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — twitter-bootstrap3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7556-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-6484 CVE-2024-6531 CVE-2024-6485 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bootstrap did not correctly sanitize certain input in the carousel component. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — devscripts — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — devscripts — 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-2649-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-1833 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the uupdate tool incorrectly handled symlinks. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted files, a […]

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