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openSUSE Tumbleweed — quassel-base — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — quassel-base — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • March 16, 2020
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🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000178 CVE-2013-4422 CVE-2015-8547 CVE-2018-1000179 CVE-2016-4414 Upstream summary: A heap corruption of type CWE-120 exists in quassel version 0.12.4 in quasselcore in void DataStreamPeer::processMessage(const QByteArray &msg) […]

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FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-nss — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-nss — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • March 16, 2020
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🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 16 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: nss — Use-after-free in TLS 1.2 generating handshake hashes Related CVEs: CVE-2014-1568 CVE-2015-7575 CVE-2016-1938 CVE-2016-1950 CVE-2016-1978 CVE-2016-1979 CVE-2016-2834 CVE-2017-5461  +2 more Upstream summary: Mozilla reports: During TLS 1.2 exchanges, handshake […]

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How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an OpenVPN Server on Ubuntu 18.04

  • March 16, 2020
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OpenVPN is a full-featured, open-source Secure Socket Layer (SSL) VPN solution that accommodates a wide range of configurations. In this tutorial, you will set up an OpenVPN server on an Ubuntu 18.04 server and then configure access to it from Windows, OS X, iOS and/or Android devices. This tutorial will keep the installation and configuration steps as simple as possible for each of these setups.

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FreeBSD 12 — pdftohtml — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — pdftohtml — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • March 16, 2020
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xpdf — stack based buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1125 CVE-2005-0064 CVE-2007-3387 Upstream summary: The KDE Team reports: kpdf, the KDE pdf viewer, shares code with xpdf. xpdf contains a vulnerability […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — golang-github-docker-docker-credential-helpers — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — golang-github-docker-docker-credential-helpers — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

  • March 16, 2020
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🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 March 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4856-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-1020014 Upstream summary: Jasiel Spelman discovered that docker-credential-helpers has a double free. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly […]

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How to Configure LDAP on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure LDAP on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is the standard protocol used to query and modify entries in Active Directory on Windows Server 2016. Applications, scripts, and management tools communicate with Active Directory over LDAP on port 389 (unencrypted or with STARTTLS) and LDAPS on port 636 (LDAP over SSL/TLS). […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libmodbus — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libmodbus — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • March 16, 2020
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🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 March 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5173-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14462 CVE-2019-14463 Upstream summary: USN-5173-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libmodbus. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It […]

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

SLES 15 — libcmis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

  • March 16, 2020
  • Linux
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 March 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:3313-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9853 Upstream summary: LibreOffice documents can contain macros. The execution of those macros is controlled by the document security settings, typically execution of macros are […]

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