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Ubuntu 20.04 — fastd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — fastd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4610-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-27638 Upstream summary: It was discovered that fastd did not properly handle receive buffers under certain circumstances. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-util/rebar-bin — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-util/rebar-bin — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202405-30 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13802 Upstream summary: Rebar3 is vulnerable to OS command injection via the URL parameter of a dependency specification. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5102-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-17983 CVE-2019-3902 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this issue to write arbitrary files to the target’s filesystem. […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — lout — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — lout — 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 advisory openSUSE-SU-2020:1771-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19917 CVE-2019-19918 Upstream summary: Lout 3.40 has a buffer overflow in the StringQuotedWord() function in z39.c. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libjpeg-turbo — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libjpeg-turbo — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 18 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5553-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-11813 CVE-2018-14498 CVE-2020-14152 CVE-2020-17541 CVE-2020-13790 CVE-2014-9092 CVE-2016-3616 CVE-2017-15232  +4 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that libjpeg-turbo was not properly handling EOF characters, which could lead to […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – cloud-init overrides static networking unexpectedly – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 📖 ~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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — soundtouch — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — soundtouch — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2018:3106-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000223 CVE-2018-17096 CVE-2018-17097 CVE-2018-17098 Upstream summary: soundtouch version up to and including 2.0.0 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SoundStretch/WavFile.cpp:WavInFile::readHeaderBlock() that can result in arbitrary […]

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SLES 15 — python2-py — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — python2-py — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 June 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2021:245-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-29651 Upstream summary: A denial of service via regular expression in the py.path.svnwc component of py (aka python-py) through 1.9.0 could be used by attackers […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — java-11-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — java-11-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2019-3135)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 17 June 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2019-3135 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-2977 CVE-2019-2988 CVE-2019-2949 CVE-2019-2964 CVE-2019-2981 CVE-2019-2945 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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Arch Linux — groovy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — groovy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202103-14 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-17521 Upstream summary: Type: privilege escalation. Status: Fixed. Affected: 2.5.13-1. Fixed in: 2.5.14-1. Group: AVG-1325. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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