Common Problems

Debian 13 — uudeview — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — uudeview — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0333 CVE-2004-2265 CVE-2008-2266 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the UUDeview package, as used in WinZip 6.2 through WinZip 8.1 SR-1, and possibly other packages, allows remote attackers to […]

Read more
Debian 13 — xsok — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — xsok — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0949 Upstream summary: xsok 1.02 does not properly drop privileges before finding and executing the "gunzip" program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands. Table of contents […]

Read more
Debian 12 — wine — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — wine — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0787 CVE-2006-0106 CVE-2018-12932 CVE-2018-12933 Upstream summary: Wine 20050211 and earlier creates temp files with world readable permissions and predictable file names, which allows local users to obtain sensitive […]

Read more
Debian 12 — hiredis — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — hiredis — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-7105 CVE-2021-32765 Upstream summary: async.c and dict.c in libhiredis.a in hiredis through 0.14.0 allow a NULL pointer dereference because malloc return values are unchecked. Table of contents Symptom […]

Read more
Debian 12 — weechat-scripts — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — weechat-scripts — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-4398 Upstream summary: Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in the (1) now-playing.rb and (2) xmms.pl 1.1 scripts for WeeChat allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary IRC commands via […]

Read more
Debian 11 — plasma-discover — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — plasma-discover — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-28117 Upstream summary: libdiscover/backends/KNSBackend/KNSResource.cpp in KDE Discover before 5.21.3 automatically creates links to potentially dangerous URLs (that are neither https:// nor http://) based on the content of the […]

Read more
Debian 12 — mediaelement — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — mediaelement — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2016-4567 Upstream summary: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in flash/FlashMediaElement.as in MediaElement.js before 2.21.0, as used in WordPress before 4.5.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or […]

Read more
Debian 11 — lua5.4 — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — lua5.4 — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15888 CVE-2020-15889 CVE-2020-15945 CVE-2020-24342 CVE-2020-24369 CVE-2020-24370 CVE-2020-24371 CVE-2021-43519  +5 more Upstream summary: Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based […]

Read more
CHAT