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Ubuntu 18.04 — tmpreaper — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — tmpreaper — 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-4077-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3461 Upstream summary: It was discovered that tmpreaper incorrectly handled certain mount operations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary files, leading to […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — gtk+2.0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — gtk+2.0 — 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-2898-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7447 Upstream summary: It was discovered that GTK+ incorrectly handled certain large images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GTK+ applications to crash, resulting […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — pcl — 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-7227-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-53432 Upstream summary: It was discovered that PCL incorrectly handled certain malformed files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted file, […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — subversion — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — subversion — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-7818-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-46901 CVE-2018-11782 CVE-2019-0203 CVE-2020-17525 Upstream summary: USN-7818-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Apache Subversion. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 […]

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

Ubuntu 16.04 — gss-ntlmssp — 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-7588-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-25567 CVE-2023-25565 CVE-2023-25564 CVE-2023-25563 Upstream summary: Phil Turnbull discovered that GSS NTLMSSP may perform out-of-bounds reads when decoding NTLM fields and target information. An attacker could possibly […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — libapache2-mod-auth-openidc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — libapache2-mod-auth-openidc — 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-7446-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-31492 Upstream summary: It was discovered that mod_auth_openidc incorrectly handled certain POST requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. Table of contents […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — yara — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — yara — 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-7177-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45429 Upstream summary: It was discovered that YARA did not properly sanitize its configuration settings. An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — gimp-dds — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — gimp-dds — 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-7209-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-44441 Upstream summary: Jacob Boerema discovered that the GIMP DDS Plugin incorrectly processed DDS files due to a memory issue. An attacker could exploit this through a […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — lxml — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — lxml — multiple vulnerabilities (5 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-5225-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-43818 CVE-2021-28957 CVE-2020-27783 CVE-2018-19787 CVE-2014-3146 Upstream summary: It was discovered that lxml incorrectly handled certain XML and HTML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — fdkaac — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — fdkaac — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-7660-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-34823 CVE-2022-37781 CVE-2022-36148 CVE-2023-34824 Upstream summary: It was discovered that fdkaac did not correctly handle certain input. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening […]

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