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Ubuntu 16.04 — coin3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — coin3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-8241-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-25236 CVE-2022-25235 CVE-2017-9233 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Expat, vendored in Coin3D incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a […]

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

Ubuntu 22.04 — onionshare — 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-7625-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19960 CVE-2022-21689 Upstream summary: It was discovered that OnionShare could be exploited when run with the –debug argument. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libcroco — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libcroco — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-6958-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7960 CVE-2017-8834 CVE-2017-8871 CVE-2020-12825 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-azure-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-4465-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-12655 CVE-2020-12771 CVE-2020-15393 CVE-2020-24394 CVE-2019-16089 CVE-2019-19462 CVE-2019-20810 CVE-2019-20908  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — mongodb — 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-8160-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-14847 CVE-2019-20925 CVE-2019-2386 Upstream summary: It was discovered that MongoDB incorrectly handled length parameters in zlib-compressed network messages prior to authentication. An unauthenticated remote attacker could possibly […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — simgear — 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-7965-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-0781 Upstream summary: It was discovered that SimGear could be made to bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — 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-8110-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4456 Upstream summary: Dave Rolsky discovered that Net-CIDR did not properly sanitize IP addresses. An attacker could possibly use this to bypass IP-based restrictions. Table of contents […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — libyaml-syck-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — libyaml-syck-perl — 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-7844-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-11683 Upstream summary: It was discovered that YAML::Syck did not properly handle parsing YAML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. Table […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — imlib2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — imlib2 — 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-5099-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-12761 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Imlib2 incorrectly handled certain ICO images. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service and possibly […]

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