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FreeBSD 12 — lifetype — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — lifetype — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: lifetype — ADOdb "server.php" Insecure Test Script Security Issue Related CVEs: CVE-2006-0146 Upstream summary: Secunia reports: A security issue has been discovered in LifeType, which can be exploited by malicious […]

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How To Use Vuls as a Vulnerability Scanner on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Vuls as a Vulnerability Scanner on Ubuntu 18.04

Vuls is an open-source, agentless vulnerability scanner written in Go. It automates security vulnerability analysis of the software installed on a system. In this tutorial, you’ll deploy Vuls to an Ubuntu 18.04 server — building Vuls and its dependencies from source code, configuring scanning and reporting to Slack, and optionally connecting it to target machines to enable remote scanning.

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FreeBSD 12 — imwheel — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — imwheel — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: imwheel — insecure handling of PID file Upstream summary: A Computer Academic Underground advisory describes the consequences of imwheel's handling of the process ID file (PID file): imwheel exclusively uses […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — tboot — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — tboot — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2017:3100-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-16837 Upstream summary: Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot (tboot) through 1.9.6 are not validated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users […]

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SLES 15 — 389-ds — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — 389-ds — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 16 December 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:1207-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14624 CVE-2014-8105 CVE-2014-8112 CVE-2015-1854 CVE-2015-3230 CVE-2017-15134 CVE-2017-15135 CVE-2018-10850  +1 more Upstream summary: A vulnerability was discovered in 389-ds-base through versions 1.3.7.10, 1.3.8.8 and 1.4.0.16. The […]

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