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SLES 15 — ipsec-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — ipsec-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 March 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:0423-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10396 Upstream summary: The racoon daemon in IPsec-Tools 0.8.2 contains a remotely exploitable computational-complexity attack when parsing and storing ISAKMP fragments. The implementation permits a […]

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Debian 9 — drupal7 — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — drupal7 — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 4 March 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-6922 CVE-2017-6927 CVE-2018-7600 CVE-2018-7602 CVE-2019-11358 CVE-2019-11831 CVE-2019-6338 CVE-2019-6341  +2 more Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-solv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-solv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:1927-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20532 Upstream summary: There is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_read) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of […]

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FreeBSD 12 — thttpd — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — thttpd — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 March 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mini_httpd,thttpd — Buffer overflow in htpasswd Upstream summary: Alessio Santoru reports: Buffer overflow in htpasswd. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step […]

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Arch Linux — ocaml — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — ocaml — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201610-17 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8869 Upstream summary: Type: information disclosure. Status: Fixed. Affected: 4.02.3-2. Fixed in: 4.03.0-1. Group: AVG-13. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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Debian 9 — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 March 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6360 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — mqtt-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — mqtt-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 March 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6685-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-0222 Upstream summary: It was discovered that mqtt-client incorrectly handled memory while parsing malformed MQTT frames. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — liblept5 — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — liblept5 — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-7186 CVE-2018-7247 CVE-2018-7440 CVE-2018-7442 CVE-2018-3836 CVE-2018-7441 CVE-2017-18196 Upstream summary: Leptonica before 1.75.3 does not limit the number of characters in a %s format argument to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — globus — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — globus — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 March 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: globus — Multiple tmpfile races Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4232 CVE-2006-4233 Upstream summary: The Globus Alliance reports: The proxy generation tool (grid-proxy-init) creates the file, secures the file to provide access only […]

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FreeBSD 12 — sam2p — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — sam2p — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 March 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: sam2p — multiple issues Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14628 CVE-2017-14629 CVE-2017-14630 CVE-2017-14631 CVE-2017-14636 CVE-2017-14637 Upstream summary: sam2p developers report: In sam2p 0.49.3, a heap-based buffer overflow exists in the pcxLoadImage24 function of […]

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