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

Ubuntu 18.04 — pyxdg — 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-4700-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12761 Upstream summary: Alexandre D'Hondt discovered that PyXDG did not properly sanitize input. An attacker could exploit this with a crafted .menu file to execute arbitrary code. […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — owslib — 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-8247-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-27476 Upstream summary: It was discovered that OWSLib did not properly disable entity resolution within its XML parser. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — libvncserver — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — libvncserver — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4636-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25708 CVE-2019-20839 CVE-2019-20840 CVE-2020-14396 CVE-2020-14397 CVE-2020-14398 CVE-2020-14399 CVE-2020-14400  +10 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that LibVNCServer incorrectly handled certain internals. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — libsdl2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — libsdl2 — 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-5274-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14409 CVE-2020-14410 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Simple DirectMedia Layer library incorrectly handled memory when parsing certain specially crafted .BMP files. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — python-eventlet — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — python-eventlet — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-7772-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-58068 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2125423 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Eventlet incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass front-end security controls, launch targeted […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — python-filelock — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — python-filelock — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-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 — linux-hwe — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-hwe — 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-5014-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33909 CVE-2021-3609 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1924611 CVE-2021-29154 CVE-2021-3492 CVE-2021-3493 CVE-2020-27170 CVE-2020-27171  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that the virtual file system implementation in the Linux kernel contained an […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libapache2-mod-perl2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libapache2-mod-perl2 — 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-3825-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2011-2767 Upstream summary: Jan Ingvoldstad discovered that mod_perl incorrectly handled configuration options to disable being used by unprivileged users, contrary to the documentation. A local attacker could […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — golang-github-go-git-go-git — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — golang-github-go-git-go-git — multiple vulnerabilities (5 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-8088-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-21613 CVE-2023-49569 CVE-2023-49568 CVE-2026-25934 CVE-2025-21614 Upstream summary: Ionut Lalu discovered that go-git incorrectly handled certain specially crafted Git server responses. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — italc — multiple vulnerabilities (19 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — italc — multiple vulnerabilities (19 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-4587-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-6051 CVE-2014-6052 CVE-2014-6053 CVE-2014-6054 CVE-2014-6055 CVE-2016-9941 CVE-2016-9942 CVE-2018-15127  +11 more Upstream summary: Nicolas Ruff discovered that iTALC had buffer overflows, divide-by-zero errors and didn't check malloc return […]

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