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FreeBSD 13 — golddig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — golddig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 April 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: golddig — local buffer overflow vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0121 Upstream summary: Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities where detected. Both issues can be used by local users to gain group games privileges […]

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Debian 11 — tiger — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — tiger — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 April 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-3927 Upstream summary: genmsgidx in Tiger 3.2.2 allows local users to overwrite or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — squashfs-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — squashfs-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2024:3139 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-40153 CVE-2021-41072 Upstream summary: SquashFS is a highly compressed read-only file system for Linux. These packages contain the utilities for manipulating squashfs file systems. Security Fix(es): * squashfs-tools: unvalidated […]

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Debian 11 — guilt — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — guilt — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 April 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-5207 Upstream summary: guilt 0.27 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a guilt.log.[PID] temporary file. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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Debian 11 — db4o — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — db4o — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 April 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2012-6550 CVE-2013-1808 CVE-2014-1869 Upstream summary: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ZeroClipboard before 1.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via "the clipText returned from […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-5.10.68-62.173 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-5.10.68-62.173 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-073 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4002 CVE-2021-43267 Upstream summary: A memory leak flaw in the Linux kernel's hugetlbfs memory usage was found in the way the user maps some regions of memory […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — ruby:2.7 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — ruby:2.7 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-3020)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 18 April 2022 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-3020 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32066 CVE-2020-36327 CVE-2021-31810 CVE-2021-31799 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches […]

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IBM AIX 7.3 — CVE-1999-0099 — buffer overflow — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.3

IBM AIX 7.3 — CVE-1999-0099 — buffer overflow — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 30–90 min  Last verified: 17 April 2022 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.3 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-1999-0099, IBM PSIRT advisory page CVE: CVE-1999-0099 NVD summary: Buffer overflow in syslog utility allows local or remote attackers to gain root privileges. References: exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE   exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE Table of contents Symptom & […]

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FreeBSD 13 — libpano — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — libpano — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 April 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libpano13 — arbitrary memory access through format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2021-20307 Upstream summary: libpano13 developers reports: Fix crash and security issue caused by malformed filename prefix Table of contents […]

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FreeBSD 13 — bitcoin-daemon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — bitcoin-daemon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 April 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bitcoin — Denial of Service and Possible Mining Inflation Related CVEs: CVE-2018-17144 Upstream summary: Bitcoin Core reports: CVE-2018-17144, a fix for which was released on September 18th in Bitcoin Core […]

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