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Amazon Linux 2 — libXcursor — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — libXcursor — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2019-1173 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-9262 Upstream summary: _XcursorThemeInherits in library.c in libXcursor before 1.1.15 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially code execution via a one-byte heap overflow.(CVE-2015-9262) […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php55-fileinfo — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php55-fileinfo — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 May 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php — multiple vulnerabilities Upstream summary: The PHP Group reports: Fileinfo: Fixed bug #71527 (Buffer over-write in finfo_open with malformed magic file). mbstring: Fixed bug #71906 (AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param (-1) in […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py26-graphite-web — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py26-graphite-web — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 May 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-graphite-web — Multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2013-5093 Upstream summary: Graphite developers report: This release contains several security fixes for cross-site scripting (XSS) as well as a fix for a remote-execution […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 May 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: isolate — local root exploit Upstream summary: Isolate currently suffers from some bad security bugs! These are local root privilege escalation bugs. Thanks to the helpful person who reported them […]

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FreeBSD 12 — libsndfile — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — libsndfile — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 30 May 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libsndfile_project — Integer overflow in dataend calculation Related CVEs: CVE-2009-0186 CVE-2009-1788 CVE-2009-1791 CVE-2011-2696 CVE-2017-12562 CVE-2017-14245 CVE-2017-14246 CVE-2017-14634  +12 more Upstream summary: [email protected] reports: Multiple signed integers overflow in function au_read_header […]

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Arch Linux — lib32-libtiff — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — lib32-libtiff — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201707-18 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10095 CVE-2015-7554 CVE-2016-9540 CVE-2016-9539 CVE-2016-9538 CVE-2016-9537 CVE-2016-9536 CVE-2016-9535  +12 more Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 4.0.7-1. Fixed in: 4.0.8-1. Group: AVG-87. Table of […]

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

Ubuntu 14.04 — unixodbc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 May 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6276-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-7409 Upstream summary: It was discovered that unixODBC incorrectly handled certain unicode to ansi copies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — openslp-dfsg — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — openslp-dfsg — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 29 May 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4919-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-5544 CVE-2017-17833 CVE-2018-12938 Upstream summary: It was discovered that OpenSLP did not properly validate URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSLP to crash […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmwaw — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:1821-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9433 Upstream summary: Document Liberation Project libmwaw before 2017-04-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the MsWrd1Parser::readFootnoteCorrespondance function in […]

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