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Oracle Linux 8 — TLS 1.3 not supported for NSS in FIPS Mode — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — TLS 1.3 not supported for NSS in FIPS Mode

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Oracle Bug OLRNT-notlssupport-fips Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mailman-exim — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mailman-exim — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mailman < 2.1.38 — CSRF vulnerability of list mod or member against list admin page Related CVEs: CVE-2021-43331 CVE-2021-43332 CVE-2021-44227 Upstream summary: Mark Sapiro reports: A list moderator or list […]

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Debian 11 — dbus-glib — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — dbus-glib — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2010-1172 CVE-2013-0292 Upstream summary: DBus-GLib 0.73 disregards the access flag of exported GObject properties, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and possibly cause a denial […]

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Debian 11 — node-node-sass — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — node-node-sass — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24025 Upstream summary: Certificate validation in node-sass 2.0.0 to 4.14.1 is disabled when requesting binaries even if the user is not specifying an alternative download path. Table of […]

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

Debian 11 — geoip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-0159 Upstream summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP_update_database_general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers (possibly only update.maxmind.com) to overwrite arbitrary files via […]

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

Debian 11 — pcal — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1289 Upstream summary: Multiple buffer overflows in (1) the getline function in pcalutil.c and (2) the get_holiday function in readfile.c for pcal 4.7.1 allow remote attackers to execute […]

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Debian 11 — qpdf — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — qpdf — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2015-9252 CVE-2017-11624 CVE-2017-11625 CVE-2017-11626 CVE-2017-11627 CVE-2017-12595 CVE-2017-18183 CVE-2017-18184  +10 more Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in […]

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

Debian 11 — binpac — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2014-9586 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 December 2021 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2021:0186-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-10536 CVE-2018-10537 CVE-2018-6767 CVE-2020-35738 CVE-2021-44269 CVE-2018-10538 CVE-2018-10539 CVE-2018-10540  +7 more Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in WavPack 5.1.0 and earlier. The WAV parser component […]

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