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SLES 12 — autofs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — autofs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2015:1020-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-8169 Upstream summary: automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of […]

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SLES 12 — pigz — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — pigz — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2015:0670-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-1191 Upstream summary: Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in pigz 2.3.1 allow remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a (1) full pathname or (2) […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — bzr — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — bzr — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 October 2015 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3411-1 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1710979 Upstream summary: Adam Collard discovered that Bazaar did not properly handle host names in 'bzr+ssh://' URLs. A remote attacker could use this to construct a bazaar […]

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SLES 12 — cups-pk-helper — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — cups-pk-helper — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 13 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2012-4510 Upstream summary: cups-pk-helper before 0.2.3 does not properly wrap the (1) cupsGetFile and (2) cupsPutFile function calls, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to read […]

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SLES 12 — sac — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — sac — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 11 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2015:1915-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-1774 CVE-2015-4551 CVE-2015-5212 CVE-2015-5213 CVE-2015-5214 Upstream summary: The HWP filter in LibreOffice before 4.3.7 and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 and Apache OpenOffice before 4.1.2 allows remote […]

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SLES 12 — mailx — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — mailx — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:1658-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 Upstream summary: The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — maas — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — maas — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 October 2015 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2431-2 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1399016 Upstream summary: USN-2431-1 fixed vulnerabilities in mod_wsgi. The security update exposed an issue in the MAAS package, causing a regression. This update fixes the problem. We […]

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SLES 12 — python-cupshelpers — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — python-cupshelpers — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 3 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) 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 […]

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SLES 12 — libXi6 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libXi6 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1984 CVE-2013-1995 CVE-2013-1998 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXi 1.7.1 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-352-updates — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 26 September 2015 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2814-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-7869 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly sanitized user mode inputs. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root […]

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