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SLES 15 — newt — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — newt — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 11 February 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2009:017 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2009-2905 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ansible — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ansible — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2024:14536-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-4966 CVE-2014-4967 CVE-2016-9587 CVE-2017-7466 CVE-2018-10875 CVE-2018-16837 CVE-2019-14904 CVE-2019-14905  +12 more Upstream summary: Ansible before 1.6.7 does not prevent inventory data with "{{" and "lookup" substrings, and does not prevent […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-keystoneclient — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-keystoneclient — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0105 CVE-2014-7144 CVE-2015-1852 Upstream summary: The auth_token middleware in the OpenStack Python client library for Keystone (aka python-keystoneclient) before 0.7.0 does not properly retrieve user […]

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FreeBSD 12 — linux-f10-xorg-libs — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — linux-f10-xorg-libs — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 February 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libXfont — BDF parsing issues Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0209 CVE-2014-0210 CVE-2014-0211 CVE-2015-1802 CVE-2015-1803 CVE-2015-1804 Upstream summary: Alan Coopersmith reports: Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered an issue […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ident — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ident — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 February 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ident2 double byte buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0408 Upstream summary: Jack of RaptureSecurity reported a double byte buffer overflow in ident2. The bug may allow a remote attacker to execute […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — ibus — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 February 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4134-3 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14822 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1844853 Upstream summary: USN-4134-1 fixed a vulnerability in IBus. The update caused a regression in some Qt applications and the fix was subsequently reverted in USN-4134-2. […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2020-1518 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16707 Upstream summary: Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx. (CVE-2019-16707) Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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SLES 15 — lftp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — lftp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 February 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:0642-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-10916 Upstream summary: It has been discovered that lftp up to and including version 4.8.3 does not properly sanitize remote file names, leading to a […]

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FreeBSD 12 — xdm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — xdm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 February 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xdm — remote denial of service Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2179 Upstream summary: nvd.nist.gov reports X.Org xdm 1.1.10, 1.1.11, and possibly other versions, when performing authentication using certain implementations of the crypt […]

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