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Ubuntu 20.04 — tang — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — tang — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 January 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6489-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-1672 Upstream summary: Brian McDermott discovered that Tang incorrectly handled permissions when creating/rotating keys. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to read the keys. Table […]

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SLES 15 — fwupd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — fwupd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 24 January 2023 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2020:1681-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-10759 CVE-2022-3287 Upstream summary: A PGP signature bypass flaw was found in fwupd (all versions), which could lead to the installation of unsigned firmware. As […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — istio — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — istio — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-12780)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 24 January 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-12780 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-35942 CVE-2023-35941 CVE-2023-35944 CVE-2023-35943 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — open-vm-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — open-vm-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-5313)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 24 January 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-5313 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-20900 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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

AlmaLinux 9 — apr — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2023:7711 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-24963 Upstream summary: The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Stuck at Black Screen After Kernel Update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 January 2023 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Debian 11 — xerces-c — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — xerces-c — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~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 11 — lprng — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — lprng — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0136 Upstream summary: psbanner in the LPRng package allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symbolic link attack on the /tmp/before file. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Alpine Linux edge — libksba — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libksba — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.6.3-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libksba 1.6.3-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-47629 CVE-2022-3515 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships libksba 1.6.3-r0 which addresses CVE-2022-47629. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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Debian 11 — opendkim — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — opendkim — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35766 CVE-2022-48521 Upstream summary: The test suite in libopendkim in OpenDKIM through 2.10.3 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack against the /tmp/testkeys file (related […]

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