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Debian 12 — json-c — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — json-c — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-6370 CVE-2013-6371 CVE-2020-12762 CVE-2021-32292 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the printbuf APIs in json-c before 0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. […]

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Debian 12 — isync — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — isync — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-0289 CVE-2021-20247 CVE-2021-3578 CVE-2021-3657 CVE-2021-44143 Upstream summary: Isync 0.4 before 1.0.6, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) […]

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Debian 12 — system-config-printer — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — system-config-printer — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4405 Upstream summary: The cupshelpers scripts in system-config-printer in Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, as used by the automatic printer driver download service, uses an "insecure connection" for queries […]

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Debian 12 — libdata-formvalidator-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — libdata-formvalidator-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2011-2201 Upstream summary: The Data::FormValidator module 4.66 and earlier for Perl, when untaint_all_constraints is enabled, does not properly preserve the taint attribute of data, which might allow remote […]

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Debian 12 — system-tools-backends — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — system-tools-backends — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-6792 Upstream summary: system-tools-backends before 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1 in Ubuntu 8.10, as used by "Users and Groups" in GNOME System Tools, hashes account passwords with 3DES and consequently limits effective […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — wayland — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — wayland — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023-2023-203 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3782 Upstream summary: An internal reference count is held on the buffer pool, incremented every time a new buffer is created from the pool. The reference count […]

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

Debian 12 — openntpd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2016-5117 Upstream summary: OpenNTPD before 6.0p1 does not validate the CN for HTTPS constraint requests, which allows remote attackers to bypass the man-in-the-middle mitigations via a crafted timestamp […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — opensc — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — opensc — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7346-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-42780 CVE-2021-42782 CVE-2023-2977 CVE-2023-40660 CVE-2023-40661 CVE-2023-5992 CVE-2024-45615 CVE-2024-45616  +5 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that OpenSC did not correctly handle certain memory operations, which could lead […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — orc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory RHSA-2024:6184 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2024-40897 Upstream summary: Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in orcparse.c of ORC versions prior to 0.4.39. If a developer is tricked to process a specially […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — dino-im — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — dino-im — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7430-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-28686 Upstream summary: Kim Alvefur discovered that Dino did not correctly sanitize certain messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive information. Table […]

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