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SLES 16 — libdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 16

SLES 16 — libdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 16 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2022:3135-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-2708 Upstream summary: Vulnerability in the Data Store component of Oracle Berkeley DB. Supported versions that are affected are Prior to 6.138, prior to 6.2.38 […]

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SLES 16 — libmpfr6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 16

SLES 16 — libmpfr6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 16 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory RHSA-2025:9332 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-9474 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the mpfr_strtofr function in GNU MPFR before 3.1.2-p11 allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to […]

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SLES 12 — aws-efs-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — aws-efs-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:0423-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2022-46174 Upstream summary: efs-utils is a set of Utilities for Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). A potential race condition issue exists within the Amazon EFS […]

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SLES 15 — logrotate — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — logrotate — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3864 CVE-2022-1348 CVE-2011-1098 CVE-2011-1154 CVE-2011-1155 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in the way the dumpable flag setting was handled when certain SUID binaries executed […]

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SLES 16 — libXvMC1 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 16

SLES 16 — libXvMC1 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 16 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1990 CVE-2013-1999 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXvMC 1.0.7 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer […]

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SLES 15 — python2-PyYAML — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — python2-PyYAML — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2021:197-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14343 CVE-2020-1747 Upstream summary: A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.4, where it is susceptible to arbitrary code execution when […]

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SLES 12 — libmspack0 — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libmspack0 — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:3470-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-18586 CVE-2018-18584 CVE-2018-18585 CVE-2010-2800 CVE-2010-2801 CVE-2014-9556 CVE-2019-1010305 CVE-2014-9732  +6 more Upstream summary: chmextract.c in the chmextract sample program, as distributed with libmspack before 0.8alpha, does […]

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SLES 16 — xkbcomp — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 16

SLES 16 — xkbcomp — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 16 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2021:232-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15853 CVE-2018-15859 CVE-2018-15861 CVE-2018-15863 Upstream summary: Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to […]

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SLES 15 — rpm — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — rpm — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2019:695-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7500 CVE-2021-3521 CVE-2021-3421 CVE-2021-20266 CVE-2021-20271 Upstream summary: It was found that rpm did not properly handle RPM installations when a destination path was a symbolic […]

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SLES 16 — libgc1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 16

SLES 16 — libgc1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 16 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2012-2673 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in the (1) GC_generic_malloc and (2) calloc functions in malloc.c, and the (3) GC_generic_malloc_ignore_off_page function in mallocx.c in Boehm-Demers-Weiser […]

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