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Ubuntu 20.04 — postfixadmin — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — postfixadmin — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-6550-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-29221 CVE-2022-31129 CVE-2023-28447 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Smarty, that is integrated in the PostfixAdmin code, was not properly sanitizing user input when generating templates. An […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — gst-plugins-base1.0 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — gst-plugins-base1.0 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 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-7827-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47808 CVE-2025-47806 CVE-2025-47807 CVE-2024-47542 CVE-2023-37328 CVE-2024-47615 CVE-2024-47538 CVE-2024-47607  +12 more Upstream summary: Shaun Mirani discovered that GStreamer Base Plugins did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — gif2apng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — gif2apng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-5969-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45909 CVE-2021-45910 CVE-2021-45911 Upstream summary: It was discovered that gif2apng contained multiple heap-base overflows. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service (system […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — ghostscript — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — ghostscript — 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-7904-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-59799 CVE-2025-59798 CVE-2024-56827 CVE-2025-48708 CVE-2024-29508 CVE-2025-27836 CVE-2025-27832 CVE-2025-27835  +12 more Upstream summary: Piotr Kajda discovered that Ghostscript incorrectly handled writing certain files. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — redis — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — redis — 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-7824-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-49844 CVE-2024-31228 CVE-2024-46981 CVE-2024-51741 CVE-2022-24834 CVE-2022-35977 CVE-2022-36021 CVE-2023-25155  +12 more Upstream summary: Benny Isaacs, Nir Brakha, and Sagi Tzadik discovered that Redis incorrectly handled memory when running […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — cargo — 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-6275-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-38497 Upstream summary: Addison Crump discovered that Cargo incorrectly set file permissions on UNIX-like systems when extracting crate archives. If the crate would contain files writable by […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — nautilus — 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-5786-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-37290 Upstream summary: It was discovered that GNOME Files incorrectly handled certain filenames. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNOME Files to crash, leading […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — 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-8110-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4456 Upstream summary: Dave Rolsky discovered that Net-CIDR did not properly sanitize IP addresses. An attacker could possibly use this to bypass IP-based restrictions. Table of contents […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — linux-starfive-5.19 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — linux-starfive-5.19 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-6192-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-2430 CVE-2023-35788 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2023577 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2023220 Upstream summary: Hangyu Hua discovered that the Flower classifier implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use […]

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

Ubuntu 14.04 — qemu — 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-7094-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-20382 CVE-2020-13765 CVE-2020-1983 CVE-2020-7039 CVE-2020-8608 CVE-2021-3592 CVE-2021-3594 CVE-2023-3019  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory during certain VNC operations. A remote attacker […]

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