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FreeBSD 13 — ruby20-gems — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ruby20-gems — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 February 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rubygems — request hijacking vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4287 CVE-2013-4363 CVE-2015-3900 Upstream summary: Jonathan Claudius reports: RubyGems provides the ability of a domain to direct clients to a separate host that […]

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Debian 11 — nagios-nrpe — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — nagios-nrpe — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 February 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1362 CVE-2014-2913 CVE-2020-6581 CVE-2020-6582 Upstream summary: Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in nrpc.c in Nagios Remote Plug-In Executor (NRPE) before 2.14 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — disruptor — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — disruptor — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALEA-2022:1963 Upstream summary: This enhancement update adds the log4j:2 module to AlmaLinux (BZ#1937468) For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — nasm — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — nasm — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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 ALAS2-2023-2029 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-44370 CVE-2020-18780 CVE-2020-21528 CVE-2022-46457 Upstream summary: NASM v2.16 was discovered to contain a heap buffer overflow in the component quote_for_pmake() asm/nasm.c:856 (CVE-2022-44370) Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Debian 11 — php-horde-mime-viewer — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — php-horde-mime-viewer — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 February 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2022-26874 Upstream summary: lib/Horde/Mime/Viewer/Ooo.php in Horde Mime_Viewer before 2.2.4 allows XSS via an OpenOffice document, leading to account takeover in Horde Groupware Webmail Edition. This occurs after XSLT […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — maven-shared-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — maven-shared-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 February 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6730-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-29599 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Maven Shared Utils did not handle double-quoted strings properly, allowing shell injection attacks. This could allow an attacker to […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — libksba — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libksba — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 February 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5787-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-47629 CVE-2022-3515 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Libksba incorrectly handled parsing CRL signatures. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Libksba to crash, resulting […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-http — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-http — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2021:2927-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32740 Upstream summary: Addressable is an alternative implementation to the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard library. An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability exists […]

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IBM AIX 7.3 — CVE-2022-35642 — xss — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.3

IBM AIX 7.3 — CVE-2022-35642 — xss — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 15–45 min  Last verified: 24 February 2022 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.3 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2022-35642, IBM Support Bulletin CVE: CVE-2022-35642 NVD summary: "IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus […]

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