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

Ubuntu 18.04 — brotli — 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-4568-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8927 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Brotli incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libxkbcommon — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libxkbcommon — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3786-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15853 CVE-2018-15854 CVE-2018-15855 CVE-2018-15856 CVE-2018-15857 CVE-2018-15858 CVE-2018-15859 CVE-2018-15861  +3 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that libxkbcommon incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — gcc-12 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — gcc-12 — 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-7700-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4039 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the -fstack-protector hardening feature in GCC for AArch64 did not properly protect dynamically-sized local variables such as those created using […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libvpx — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libvpx — multiple vulnerabilities (6 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-7249-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-5197 CVE-2023-5217 CVE-2020-0034 CVE-2017-13194 CVE-2019-9232 CVE-2019-9433 Upstream summary: Xiantong Hou discovered that libvpx would overflow when attempting to allocate memory for very large images. If an application […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — wayland — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — wayland — 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-3622-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-16612 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the Wayland Xcursor support incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could use these issues to cause Wayland to crash, resulting […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — python-tornado — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — python-tornado — multiple vulnerabilities (7 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-8198-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-31958 CVE-2026-35536 CVE-2025-67724 CVE-2025-67725 CVE-2025-67726 CVE-2023-28370 CVE-2024-52804 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Tornado incorrectly handled parsing of large multipart request bodies. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — net-snmp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — net-snmp — 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-7944-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-68615 Upstream summary: Bahae Bahrini discovered that Net-SNMP could be made to write out of bounds. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — python-filelock — 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-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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Ubuntu 18.04 — kvmtool — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — kvmtool — 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-8172-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-2861 CVE-2021-45464 Upstream summary: It was discovered that kvmtool did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. A malicious guest attacker could use this issue to cause […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — freerdp — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — freerdp — multiple vulnerabilities (17 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-4382-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11042 CVE-2020-11045 CVE-2020-11046 CVE-2020-11048 CVE-2020-11058 CVE-2020-11521 CVE-2020-11522 CVE-2020-11523  +9 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use […]

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