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Ubuntu 16.04 — monit — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — monit — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 3 March 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6571-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-26563 CVE-2019-11454 CVE-2019-11455 Upstream summary: Youssef Rebahi-Gilbert discovered that Monit did not properly process credentials for disabled accounts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to login […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — gnome-autoar — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — gnome-autoar — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 3 March 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4937-2 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1929304 CVE-2021-28650 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1917812 CVE-2020-36241 Upstream summary: USN-4937-1 fixed a vulnerability in GNOME Autoar. The update caused a regression when extracting certain archives. This update fixes the problem. […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — libssh security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — libssh security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2020-4545)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 March 2022 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4545 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-1730 CVE-2019-14889 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & […]

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FreeBSD 13 — linux-sun-jdk — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — linux-sun-jdk — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 March 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: java 7.x — security manager bypass Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1029 CVE-2005-1080 CVE-2007-5232 CVE-2012-4681 CVE-2013-0433 Upstream summary: US CERT reports: Java 7 Update 10 and earlier versions of Java 7 contain a […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — python-justbytes — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — python-justbytes — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2020:4798 Upstream summary: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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

Debian 11 — anjuta — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 March 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-42522 Upstream summary: There is a Information Disclosure vulnerability in anjuta/plugins/document-manager/anjuta-bookmarks.c. This issue was caused by the incorrect use of libxml2 API. The vendor forgot to call 'g_free()' […]

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

Debian 11 — cxxtools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 March 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7298 Upstream summary: query_params.cpp in cxxtools before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion and crash) via an HTTP query that contains %% […]

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