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Ubuntu 20.04 — pcs — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — pcs — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 January 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7614-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-2661 CVE-2022-2735 CVE-2018-1086 CVE-2022-1049 Upstream summary: Cedric Buissart discovered that pcs did not correctly handle certain parameters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — Unbreakable Enterprise kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — Unbreakable Enterprise kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-9726)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 2 January 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-9726 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-21385 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 8 — uom-se — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — uom-se — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2022:0290 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4104 CVE-2022-23302 CVE-2022-23305 CVE-2022-23307 Upstream summary: Parfait is a Java performance monitoring library that collects metrics and exposes them through a variety of outputs. It provides APIs for extracting […]

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Debian 11 — claws-mail — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — claws-mail — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-1558 CVE-2007-6208 CVE-2010-5109 CVE-2012-4507 CVE-2014-2576 CVE-2015-8614 CVE-2015-8708 CVE-2019-10735  +3 more Upstream summary: The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via […]

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Debian 11 — x265 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — x265 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-13135 Upstream summary: A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure. […]

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How to Configure Apache2 with mod_security on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Apache2 with mod_security on Debian 9

Introduction Debian 9 Stretch is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up configure apache2 with mod_security on debian 9 on Stretch leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Stretch freeze. Follow each step carefully and […]

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Debian 11 — zsh — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — zsh — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-6209 CVE-2014-10070 CVE-2014-10071 CVE-2014-10072 CVE-2016-10714 CVE-2017-18205 CVE-2017-18206 CVE-2018-0502  +8 more Upstream summary: Util/difflog.pl in zsh 4.3.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — gcc-toolset-12-binutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — gcc-toolset-12-binutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2023:2873 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-4285 Upstream summary: The binutils packages provide a collection of binary utilities for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats. It includes the ar, as, gprof, […]

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