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openSUSE Tumbleweed — wavpack — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — wavpack — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2021:0153-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6767 CVE-2020-35738 CVE-2021-44269 CVE-2018-7253 CVE-2019-1010315 CVE-2019-1010317 CVE-2019-1010319 CVE-2018-19840  +4 more Upstream summary: A stack-based buffer over-read in the ParseRiffHeaderConfig function of cli/riff.c file of WavPack […]

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Debian 11 — libcgi-session-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libcgi-session-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1279 CVE-2006-1280 Upstream summary: CGI::Session 4.03-1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by (1) Driver::File, (2) Driver::db_file, and possibly […]

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

Debian 11 — teg — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1150 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG) 0.11.1, automatically appends an _ (underscore) to the end of duplicate nicknames, which allows remote attackers to cause […]

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Debian 11 — pam-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — pam-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16729 Upstream summary: pam-python before 1.0.7-1 has an issue in regard to the default environment variable handling of Python, which could allow for local root escalation in certain […]

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Debian 11 — lpr — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — lpr — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2000-1220 CVE-2000-1221 CVE-2003-0144 CVE-2003-0146 Upstream summary: The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by […]

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Debian 11 — ruby-i18n — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — ruby-i18n — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4492 CVE-2014-10077 Upstream summary: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in exceptions.rb in the i18n gem before 0.6.6 for Ruby allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — pdfresurrect — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — pdfresurrect — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5282-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14267 CVE-2019-14934 CVE-2020-20740 CVE-2020-9549 CVE-2021-3508 Upstream summary: It was discovered that PDFResurrect was incorrectly handling corrupted PDF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause […]

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How To Build a Modern Web Application to Manage Customer Information with Django and React on Ubuntu 18.04 — Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build a Modern Web Application to Manage Customer Information with Django and React on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, you will build a modern web application with a separate REST API backend and frontend using React, Django, and Django REST Framework. By using React with Django, you’ll be able to benefit from the latest advancements in JavaScript and front-end development. The web application you will build stores records about customers in a database, and you can use it as a starting point for a CRM application.

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Oracle Linux 8 – Common Problem 012 – Diagnosis and Fix

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 29 August 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~3 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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