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Ubuntu 22.04 — ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — ubuntu-advantage-desktop-daemon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7063-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-6388 Upstream summary: Marco Trevisan discovered that the Ubuntu Advantage Desktop Daemon leaked the Pro token to unprivileged users by passing the token as an argument in […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — python-gnupg — 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-3964-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-12020 CVE-2019-6690 Upstream summary: Marcus Brinkmann discovered that GnuPG before 2.2.8 improperly handled certain command line parameters. A remote attacker could use this to spoof the output […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — smarty4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — smarty4 — 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-7377-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-35226 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Smarty did not properly sanitize template file names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Smarty to crash, […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — ppp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — ppp — vulnerability — 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-4451-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15704 Upstream summary: Thomas Chauchefoin working with Trend Micro´s Zero Day Initiative, discovered that ppp incorrectly handled module loading. A local attacker could use this issue to […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — unity-firefox-extension — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — unity-firefox-extension — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-2743-3 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1498681 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1069793 Upstream summary: USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Future Firefox updates will require all addons be signed and unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey and webaccounts-browser-extension will not go through […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — mpg123 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — mpg123 — 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-7092-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-10573 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2089680 Upstream summary: USN-7092-1 fixed a vulnerability in mpg123. Bastien Roucariès discovered that the fix was incomplete on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This update fixes the problem. […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — znc — 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-6990-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-39844 CVE-2019-12816 Upstream summary: Johannes Kuhn (DasBrain) discovered that znc incorrectly handled user input under certain operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — modsecurity-apache — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — modsecurity-apache — multiple vulnerabilities (5 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-7567-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47947 CVE-2025-48866 CVE-2021-42717 CVE-2022-48279 CVE-2023-24021 Upstream summary: Simon Studer discovered that ModSecurity incorrectly handled certain JSON objects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — ledgersmb — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — ledgersmb — multiple vulnerabilities (5 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-7647-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3693 CVE-2021-3731 CVE-2024-23831 CVE-2021-3882 CVE-2021-3694 Upstream summary: It was discovered that LedgerSMB did not check the origin of HTML fragments. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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