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FreeBSD 13 — bind98-base — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — bind98-base — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bind — denial of service vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2012-5166 CVE-2012-5688 CVE-2013-2266 CVE-2013-3919 CVE-2013-4854 CVE-2014-0591 CVE-2014-8500 CVE-2014-8680 Upstream summary: ISC reports: We have today posted updated versions of 9.9.6 and 9.10.1 […]

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FreeBSD 15 — ap24-mod_security — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — ap24-mod_security — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ModSecurity — empty XML tag causes segmentation fault Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47947 CVE-2025-48866 CVE-2025-52891 Upstream summary: [email protected] reports: ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for […]

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FreeBSD 14 — linux-c6-icu — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — linux-c6-icu — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: icu — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7867 CVE-2017-7868 Upstream summary: NVD reports: International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rsyslog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rsyslog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rsyslog8 — heap buffer overflow on receiving TCP syslog Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3634 CVE-2022-24903 Upstream summary: Rainer Gerhards reports: Modules for TCP syslog reception have a heap buffer overflow when octet-counted […]

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FreeBSD 14 — mdbook — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — mdbook — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mdbook — XSS in mdBook's search page Related CVEs: CVE-2020-26297 Upstream summary: Rust Security Response Working Group reports: The search feature of mdBook (introduced in version 0.1.4) was affected by […]

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FreeBSD 14 — libsixel — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — libsixel — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Memory leak in different components Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14072 CVE-2018-14073 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: bsixel 1.8.1 has a memory leak in sixel_decoder_decode in decoder.c, image_buffer_resize in fromsixel.c, sixel_decode_raw in fromsixel.c and […]

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FreeBSD 15 — sylpheed-claws — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — sylpheed-claws — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: claws-mail — POP3 Format String Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0667 CVE-2005-0926 CVE-2007-2958 Upstream summary: A Secunia Advisory reports: A format string error in the "inc_put_error()" function in src/inc.c when displaying a […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-nokogiri — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-nokogiri — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: nokogiri — Security vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2019-5477 CVE-2020-26247 Upstream summary: Nokogiri reports: In Nokogiri versions <= 1.11.0.rc3, XML Schemas parsed by Nokogiri::XML::Schema were trusted by default, allowing external resources to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — dbus — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — dbus — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: dbus file descriptor leak Related CVEs: CVE-2006-6107 CVE-2013-2168 CVE-2014-3477 CVE-2014-3532 CVE-2014-3533 CVE-2014-3635 CVE-2014-3636 CVE-2014-3637  +4 more Upstream summary: GitHub Security Lab reports: D-Bus has a file descriptor leak, which can […]

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