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SLES 12 — libgraphite2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libgraphite2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 September 2018 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:0779-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1521 CVE-2016-1523 CVE-2016-1526 CVE-2018-7999 Upstream summary: The directrun function in directmachine.cpp in Libgraphite in Graphite 2 1.2.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and […]

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SLES 15 — podofo — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — podofo — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 September 2018 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2024:3541-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8981 CVE-2017-6840 CVE-2017-6841 CVE-2017-6842 CVE-2017-6845 CVE-2017-6849 CVE-2017-8378 CVE-2018-5309  +6 more Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the PdfParser::ReadXRefSubsection function in base/PdfParser.cpp in PoDoFo allows attackers […]

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

Debian 9 — mercurial — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 September 2018 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-1000115 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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Debian 9 — network-manager-vpnc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — network-manager-vpnc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 September 2018 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-10900 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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Amazon Linux 2 — texlive — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2020-1461 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-17407 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — lcms2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — lcms2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 September 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3770-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10165 CVE-2018-16435 Upstream summary: Ibrahim El-Sayed discovered that Little CMS incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. […]

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SLES 15 — ppc64-diag — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — ppc64-diag — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 14 September 2018 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:0928-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-4038 CVE-2014-4039 Upstream summary: ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to (1) rtas_errd/diag_support.c and /tmp/get_dt_files, (2) scripts/ppc64_diag_mkrsrc […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 12 September 2018 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-IU-2020:117-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-18751 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free […]

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