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

Ubuntu 24.04 — samba — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-7826-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-10230 CVE-2025-9640 Upstream summary: Andrew Walker discovered that Samba incorrectly initialized memory in the vfs_streams_xattr module. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — ruby-websocket-extensions — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — ruby-websocket-extensions — 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-4502-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-7663 Upstream summary: It was discovered that websocket-extensions does not properly parse special headers. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause regex backtracking, resulting in […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — evince — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — evince — 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-3503-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-1000159 CVE-2017-1000083 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Evince incorrectly handled printing certain DVI files. If a user were tricked into opening and printing a specially-named DVI […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — snowflake — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — snowflake — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-7966-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-29189 CVE-2022-29222 CVE-2022-29190 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Pion DTLS, vendored in Snowflake, did not impose a limit on the amount of data that was buffered […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — node-express — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — node-express — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-7581-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-29041 CVE-2024-43796 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Express incorrectly handled certain URLs, leading to an open redirect attack. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — nltk — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — nltk — multiple vulnerabilities (5 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-8214-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-14009 CVE-2021-3842 CVE-2021-43854 CVE-2021-3828 CVE-2019-14751 Upstream summary: It was discovered that NLTK incorrectly handled file extraction when opening a maliciously crafted zip file. An attacker could possibly […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — pam — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — pam — multiple vulnerabilities (7 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-6588-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-22365 CVE-2022-28321 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2006073 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1558114 CVE-2013-7041 CVE-2014-2583 CVE-2015-3238 Upstream summary: USN-6588-1 fixed a vulnerability in PAM. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-oracle-5.3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-oracle-5.3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4440-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16089 CVE-2019-19462 CVE-2019-20810 CVE-2019-20908 CVE-2020-10732 CVE-2020-10757 CVE-2020-10766 CVE-2020-10767  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that the network block device (nbd) implementation in the Linux kernel did […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — golang-golang-x-net-dev — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — golang-golang-x-net-dev — multiple vulnerabilities (8 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-8089-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-22872 CVE-2021-33194 CVE-2025-58190 CVE-2022-41723 CVE-2022-27664 CVE-2025-47911 CVE-2023-3978 CVE-2024-45338 Upstream summary: USN-8089-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Go Networking. This update provides the corresponding update to code vendored in golang-golang-x-net-dev. […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — python-filelock — 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-7999-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-68146 CVE-2026-22701 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Filelock incorrectly handled symlinks in temp files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause lock operations […]

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