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🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ez-ipupdate — format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0980 Upstream summary: Data supplied by a remote server is used as the format string instead of as parameters in a syslog() call. […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libotr — integer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2012-3461 CVE-2016-2851 Upstream summary: X41 D-Sec reports: A remote attacker may crash or execute arbitrary code in libotr by sending large OTR messages. Table […]

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: oniguruma — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8874 CVE-2016-5766 CVE-2016-5767 CVE-2016-5768 CVE-2016-5769 CVE-2016-5770 CVE-2016-5771 CVE-2016-5772  +5 more Upstream summary: the PHP project reports: A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rubygems — deserialization vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3900 CVE-2017-0903 Upstream summary: oss-security mailing list: There is a possible unsafe object desrialization vulnerability in RubyGems. It is possible for YAML deserialization of […]

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: lynx — SSL certificate validation error Related CVEs: CVE-2005-3120 CVE-2014-3566 CVE-2016-9179 Upstream summary: Axel Beckert reports: […] I was able to capture the password given on the commandline in traffic […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: fuser — missing user's privileges check Upstream summary: Denis Barov reports: sysutils/fuser allows user to send any signal to any process when installed with suid bit. Table of contents Symptom […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Ansible — Ansible user credentials disclosure in ansible-connection module Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3583 CVE-2021-3620 Upstream summary: Red Hat reports: A flaw was found in Ansible Engine's ansible-connection module, where sensitive information […]

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libxslt — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1683 CVE-2016-1684 CVE-2024-55549 CVE-2025-11731 CVE-2025-24855 CVE-2025-7424 CVE-2025-7425 CVE-2025-9714 Upstream summary: Alan Coopersmith reports: On 6/16/25 15:12, Alan Coopersmith wrote: BTW, users of libxml2 may […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: security/py-ecdsa — multiple issues Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14853 CVE-2019-14859 Upstream summary: py-ecdsa developers report: Fix CVE-2019-14853 – possible DoS caused by malformed signature decoding. Fix CVE-2019-14859 – signature malleability caused by […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Emacs — Arbitrary code execution vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2024-53920 CVE-2025-1244 Upstream summary: Problem Description A shell injection vulnerability exists in GNU Emacs due to improper handling of custom man URI […]