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RPM Database Lock Conflicts During YUM

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 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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FreeBSD 13 — kdebase-runtime — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — kdebase-runtime — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 August 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: KDE — multiple vulnerabilities Upstream summary: oCERT reports: Ark input sanitization errors: The KDE archiving tool, Ark, performs insufficient validation which leads to specially crafted archive files, using unknown MIME […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py311-nicotine-plus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py311-nicotine-plus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 August 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-nicotine-plus — Denial of service vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45848 Upstream summary: ztauras reports: Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Nicotine+ starting with version 3.0.3 and prior to version 3.2.1 allows […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — gnome-tweaks — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — gnome-tweaks — multiple vulnerabilities (5 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-2020:1766 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20337 CVE-2019-12447 CVE-2019-12448 CVE-2019-12449 CVE-2019-3825 Upstream summary: GNOME is the default desktop environment of AlmaLinux. Security Fix(es): * LibRaw: stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_makernote function of dcraw_common.cpp (CVE-2018-20337) […]

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FreeBSD 13 — libsndfile — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — libsndfile — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 27 August 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libsndfile_project — Integer overflow in dataend calculation Related CVEs: CVE-2009-0186 CVE-2009-1788 CVE-2009-1791 CVE-2011-2696 CVE-2017-12562 CVE-2017-14245 CVE-2017-14246 CVE-2017-14634  +12 more Upstream summary: [email protected] reports: Multiple signed integers overflow in function au_read_header […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — hanemacs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 August 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: emacs — movemail format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0100 Upstream summary: Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs. They can be exploited when connecting […]

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

Debian 11 — liece — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0537 Upstream summary: The liece Emacs IRC client 2.0+0.20030527 and earlier creates temporary files insecurely, which could allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files as other users. Table […]

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Debian 11 — libdbd-firebird-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libdbd-firebird-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 August 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2015-2788 Upstream summary: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the ib_fill_isqlda function in dbdimp.c in DBD-Firebird before 1.19 allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors that […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — numpy — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — numpy — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 August 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5763-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33430 CVE-2021-34141 CVE-2021-41495 CVE-2021-41496 Upstream summary: It was discovered that NumPy did not properly manage memory when specifying arrays of large dimensions. If a user were tricked […]

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