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

Ubuntu 22.04 — texlive-bin — 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-7985-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-24107 CVE-2022-24106 CVE-2023-32668 CVE-2024-25262 CVE-2019-18604 CVE-2023-32700 Upstream summary: Shin Ando discovered that the Xpdf toolkit embedded in TeX Live incorrectly handled memory when decoding certain data streams. […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — smarty3 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — smarty3 — 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-8272-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-28447 CVE-2021-21408 CVE-2021-26119 CVE-2021-26120 CVE-2021-29454 Upstream summary: Takuya Aramaki discovered that Smarty did not properly escape JavaScript code. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — sensible-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — sensible-utils — 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-3584-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-17512 Upstream summary: Gabriel Corona discovered that sensible-utils incorrectly validated strings when launcher a browser with the sensible-browser tool. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — libyaml-libyaml-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — libyaml-libyaml-perl — 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-7632-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-40908 Upstream summary: It was discovered that YAML-LibYAML incorrectly handled certain file names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. Table of contents […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — cacti — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — cacti — multiple vulnerabilities (9 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-6969-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-25641 CVE-2024-29894 CVE-2024-31443 CVE-2024-31444 CVE-2024-31445 CVE-2024-31458 CVE-2024-31459 CVE-2024-31460  +1 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Cacti did not properly apply checks to the "Package Import" feature. […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — lua5.1 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — lua5.1 — 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-8169-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-49844 CVE-2022-24834 CVE-2024-31449 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Redis incorrectly handled certain specially crafted Lua scripts. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — crawl — 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-7969-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11722 Upstream summary: David Mendenhall discovered that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was incorrectly handling Lua bytecode embedded in an uploaded .crawlrc file. An attacker could possibly use […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-aws-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-4489-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14386 CVE-2020-14356 CVE-2020-12655 CVE-2020-12771 CVE-2020-15393 CVE-2020-24394 CVE-2019-16089 CVE-2019-19462  +12 more Upstream summary: Or Cohen discovered that the AF_PACKET implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform […]

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

Ubuntu 24.04 — keystone — 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-7857-1 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2130629 Upstream summary: Kay discovered that OpenStack Keystone incorrectly handled the ec2tokens and s3tokens APIs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain unauthorized access […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — debian-goodies — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — debian-goodies — 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-8109-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-27635 Upstream summary: Jakub Wilk discovered that debmany in Debian Goodies incorrectly handled certain deb files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary shell […]

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