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Debian 12 — flamethrower — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — flamethrower — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 June 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-5141 Upstream summary: flamethrower in flamethrower 0.1.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/multicast.tar.##### temporary file. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Alpine Linux 3.19 — giflib — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.19 — giflib — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.19 / fixed in 5.2.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — giflib 5.2.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-39742 CVE-2023-48161 CVE-2021-40633 CVE-2022-28506 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.19 ships giflib 5.2.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2023-39742. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Debian 12 — xerces-c — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — xerces-c — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2009-1885 CVE-2012-0880 CVE-2015-0252 CVE-2016-0729 CVE-2016-2099 CVE-2016-4463 CVE-2017-12627 CVE-2018-1311  +1 more Upstream summary: Stack consumption vulnerability in validators/DTD/DTDScanner.cpp in Apache Xerces C++ 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 allows context-dependent attackers to […]

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Debian 12 — mathtex — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — mathtex — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2009-1383 CVE-2009-2460 CVE-2009-2461 CVE-2023-51885 CVE-2023-51886 CVE-2023-51887 CVE-2023-51888 CVE-2023-51889  +1 more Upstream summary: The getdirective function in mathtex.cgi in mathTeX, when downloaded before 20090713, allows remote attackers to execute […]

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openSUSE Leap 15.5 — libcap2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Leap 15.5

openSUSE Leap 15.5 — libcap2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Leap 15.5 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:2207-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2023-2603 CVE-2023-2602 Upstream summary: A vulnerability was found in libcap. This issue occurs in the _libcap_strdup() function and can lead to an integer overflow […]

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Debian 12 — groovy — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — groovy — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3253 CVE-2016-6814 CVE-2020-17521 Upstream summary: The MethodClosure class in runtime/MethodClosure.java in Apache Groovy 1.7.0 through 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of […]

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Debian 11 — ruby-protocol-http1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — ruby-protocol-http1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 June 2024 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-38697 Upstream summary: protocol-http1 provides a low-level implementation of the HTTP/1 protocol. RFC 9112 Section 7.1 defined the format of chunk size, chunk data and chunk extension. The […]

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Alpine Linux 3.18 — squid — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.18

Alpine Linux 3.18 — squid — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.18 / fixed in 5.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — squid 5.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-41611 CVE-2021-28116 CVE-2021-28651 CVE-2021-28652 CVE-2021-28662 CVE-2021-31806 CVE-2021-31807 CVE-2021-31808  +12 more Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.18 ships squid 5.2-r0 which […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — ceph — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — ceph — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8045-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-31884 CVE-2024-47866 CVE-2024-48916 CVE-2023-43040 CVE-2021-3979 CVE-2022-0670 CVE-2022-3650 CVE-2022-3854 Upstream summary: Martin Schobert discovered that Ceph did not properly verify SSL certificates when using Pybind for secure mail […]

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