Common Problems

Oracle Linux 8 — gstreamer1-plugins-good — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — gstreamer1-plugins-good — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-7618)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 31 August 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-7618 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3497 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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Gentoo Linux — app-text/gocr — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — app-text/gocr — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202401-28 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33479 CVE-2021-33480 CVE-2021-33481 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GOCR. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — p11-kit security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — p11-kit security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2021-1609)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-1609 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-29362 CVE-2020-29363 CVE-2020-29361 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 — py27-buildbot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — py27-buildbot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: buildbot — OAuth Authentication Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12300 CVE-2019-7313 Upstream summary: Buildbot accepted user-submitted authorization token from OAuth and used it to authenticate user. The vulnerability can lead to malicious […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS enters grub rescue prompt

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 📖 ~1 min read 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 Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — wavpack — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — wavpack — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2021:0153-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6767 CVE-2020-35738 CVE-2021-44269 CVE-2018-7253 CVE-2019-1010315 CVE-2019-1010317 CVE-2019-1010319 CVE-2018-19840  +4 more Upstream summary: A stack-based buffer over-read in the ParseRiffHeaderConfig function of cli/riff.c file of WavPack […]

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Debian 11 — libcgi-session-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libcgi-session-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1279 CVE-2006-1280 Upstream summary: CGI::Session 4.03-1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files used by (1) Driver::File, (2) Driver::db_file, and possibly […]

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Common Problems 118435

Temporary Failure Resolving During apt or curl

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 📖 ~1 min read 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 Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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

Debian 11 — teg — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1150 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG) 0.11.1, automatically appends an _ (underscore) to the end of duplicate nicknames, which allows remote attackers to cause […]

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Debian 11 — pam-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — pam-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16729 Upstream summary: pam-python before 1.0.7-1 has an issue in regard to the default environment variable handling of Python, which could allow for local root escalation in certain […]

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