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Common Problems 121469

Debian 9 APT Lock Contention During Package Operations

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: Debian 9 📖 ~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 & […]

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Common Problems 118584

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Docker daemon fails with overlay2 mount errors

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: 16.04 📖 ~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 […]

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IBM AIX 7.2 — CVE-2021-38954 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.2

IBM AIX 7.2 — CVE-2021-38954 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 15–45 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2021-38954, IBM Support Bulletin CVE: CVE-2021-38954 NVD summary: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Standard Edition 6.0.0.0 through 6.0.3.5 and 6.1.0.0 through 6.1.1.0 could disclose sensitive version information that could aid in future attacks […]

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Common Problems 118424

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS DNS resolution fails intermittently on production hosts

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: 16.04 📖 ~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 […]

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Common Problems 115456

RHEL 7 yum rpmdb Corruption Prevents Package Operations

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~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 & […]

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Alpine Linux edge — ghostscript — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — ghostscript — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 9.54-r1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — ghostscript 9.54-r1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3781 CVE-2020-16287 CVE-2020-16288 CVE-2020-16289 CVE-2020-16290 CVE-2020-16291 CVE-2020-16292 CVE-2020-16293  +12 more Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships ghostscript 9.54-r1 which […]

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FreeBSD 12 — openldap24-server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — openldap24-server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: nested filters leads to stack overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2020-12243 Upstream summary: Howard Chu reports: nested filters leads to stack overflow Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — tomcat7 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — tomcat7 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6908-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-0221 CVE-2020-9484 CVE-2021-25329 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the Tomcat SSI printenv command echoed user provided data without escaping it. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — openjpeg2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — openjpeg2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-0570)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 18 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-0570 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8112 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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Oracle Linux 8 — webkit2gtk3 — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — webkit2gtk3 — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2021-4097)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-4097 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-30858 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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