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openSUSE Leap 15.5 — ruby2.5-rubygem-railties — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Leap 15.5

openSUSE Leap 15.5 — ruby2.5-rubygem-railties — vulnerability — 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 openSUSE-SU-2023:0350-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2023-38037 Upstream summary: ActiveSupport::EncryptedFile writes contents that will be encrypted to a temporary file. The temporary file's permissions are defaulted to the user's current […]

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Debian 12 — r-cran-readxl — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — r-cran-readxl — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 21 September 2023 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-12108 CVE-2017-12109 CVE-2017-12110 CVE-2017-12111 CVE-2017-2896 CVE-2017-2897 CVE-2017-2919 CVE-2018-20450  +8 more Upstream summary: An exploitable integer overflow vulnerability exists in the xls_preparseWorkSheet function of libxls 1.4 when handling a […]

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Debian 12 — zoneminder — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — zoneminder — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 21 September 2023 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0227 CVE-2008-1381 CVE-2008-3880 CVE-2008-3881 CVE-2008-3882 CVE-2008-6755 CVE-2008-6756 CVE-2013-0232  +12 more Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the zms script in ZoneMinder before 1.19.2 may allow a remote attacker to […]

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Debian 12 – APT Lock Contention Blocks Security Updates – Safe Recovery

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 21 September 2023 Affected versions: Debian 12 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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How to Set Up HTTP/3 QUIC on Nginx on Debian 12 — step-by-step Debian 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up HTTP/3 QUIC on Nginx on Debian 12

Introduction Debian 12 Bookworm is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up set up http/3 quic on nginx on debian 12 on Bookworm leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Bookworm freeze. Follow each step […]

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Alpine Linux 3.18 — libraw — multiple vulnerabilities (19 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.18

Alpine Linux 3.18 — libraw — multiple vulnerabilities (19 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.18 / fixed in 0.21.1-r1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libraw 0.21.1-r1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-1729 CVE-2020-24890 CVE-2020-24899 CVE-2020-35530 CVE-2020-35531 CVE-2020-35532 CVE-2020-35533 CVE-2020-35534  +11 more Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vv3.18 ships libraw 0.21.1-r1 which […]

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AlmaLinux 9 — gmp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 9

AlmaLinux 9 — gmp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2023:6661 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-43618 Upstream summary: The gmp packages contain GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetics, signed integers operations, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. Security Fix(es): * gmp: Integer […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — samba — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — samba — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023-2023-416 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-3961 CVE-2023-4091 CVE-2022-2127 CVE-2023-3347 CVE-2023-34966 CVE-2023-34967 CVE-2023-34968 CVE-2018-14628  +12 more Upstream summary: Samba is vulnerable to path traversal due to insufficient sanitization of clients incoming pipe names. […]

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Debian 12 — kio-extras — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — kio-extras — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 September 2023 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19120 CVE-2020-12755 Upstream summary: The HTML thumbnailer plugin in KDE Applications before 18.12.0 allows attackers to trigger outbound TCP connections to arbitrary IP addresses, leading to disclosure of […]

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