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

Oracle Linux 8 — gcc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2025-1301)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2025-1301 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11023 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libtspi1 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libtspi1 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24332 CVE-2019-18898 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges, the creation of the […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — dnsmasq — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — dnsmasq — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2022-7633)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-7633 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-0934 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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Alpine Linux edge — lynx — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — lynx — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2.8.9_p1-r3 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — lynx 2.8.9_p1-r3 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-38165 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships lynx 2.8.9_p1-r3 which addresses CVE-2021-38165. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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Debian 9 – DNS resolution fails with systemd-resolved misconfiguration

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 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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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS GRUB update fails after manual disk layout changes

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 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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Amazon Linux 2 — cpio — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — cpio — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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 ALAS2-2024-2489 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-1197 CVE-2021-38185 CVE-2019-14866 Upstream summary: cpio 2.11, when using the –no-absolute-filenames option, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – apt update fails because dpkg lock is held

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 January 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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RHEL 7 NetworkManager overwriting static ifcfg network settings

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 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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