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Ubuntu 18.04 — cacti — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — cacti — multiple vulnerabilities (15 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-7226-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-46169 CVE-2024-25641 CVE-2024-29894 CVE-2024-31443 CVE-2024-31444 CVE-2024-31445 CVE-2024-31458 CVE-2024-31459  +7 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize the 'poller_id' parameter in the "remote_agent.php" […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — linux-gkeop-5.15 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — linux-gkeop-5.15 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 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-7100-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-48666 CVE-2023-52889 CVE-2023-52918 CVE-2024-25744 CVE-2024-26607 CVE-2024-26661 CVE-2024-26669 CVE-2024-26800  +12 more Upstream summary: Supraja Sridhara, Benedict Schlüter, Mark Kuhne, Andrin Bertschi, and Shweta Shinde discovered that the Confidential […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — fail2ban — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — fail2ban — 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-5232-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32749 Upstream summary: Jakub Żoczek discovered that certain Fail2ban actions handled whois responses in an insecure way. If Fail2ban was configured to use certain mail actions like […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — opusfile — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — opusfile — vulnerability — 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-5937-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-47021 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Opusfile was not properly validating pointer arguments in some of its functions, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — evince — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — evince — 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-8295-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-46529 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Evince did not properly sanitize command-line arguments in PDF /GoToR actions. If a user opened a specially crafted PDF file, […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — libsepol — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libsepol — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5391-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-36084 CVE-2021-36085 CVE-2021-36086 CVE-2021-36087 Upstream summary: Nicolas Iooss discovered that libsepol incorrectly handled memory when handling policies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — intel-microcode — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — intel-microcode — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4985-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24511 CVE-2020-24512 CVE-2020-24513 CVE-2020-24489 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1903883 CVE-2020-8695 CVE-2020-8696 CVE-2020-8698  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that some Intel processors may not properly invalidate cache entries used by […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — numpy — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — numpy — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-5763-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33430 CVE-2021-34141 CVE-2021-41495 CVE-2021-41496 Upstream summary: It was discovered that NumPy did not properly manage memory when specifying arrays of large dimensions. If a user were tricked […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — dosbox — 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-5356-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12594 CVE-2019-7165 Upstream summary: Alexandre Bartel discovered that DOSBox incorrectly handled long lines in certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. […]

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

Ubuntu 22.04 — mako — 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-8234-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-41205 CVE-2022-40023 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Mako incorrectly handled URIs with double-slash prefixes in TemplateLookup. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain […]

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