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Common Problems 121165

Debian 10 Locale Misconfiguration Causes Perl Warning

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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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FreeBSD 12 — ivtools — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ivtools — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tiff — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0803 CVE-2004-0804 CVE-2004-0886 CVE-2004-1308 CVE-2005-1544 Upstream summary: A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2187-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6254 CVE-2017-7401 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — pop3proxy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — pop3proxy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: up-imapproxy — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1035 Upstream summary: Timo Sirainen reports: There are various bugs in up-imapproxy which can crash it. Since up-imapproxy runs in a single process with […]

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Common Problems 115125

RHEL 8 DNS Settings Overwritten by DHCP and Break Internal Name Resolution

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 📖 ~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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Ubuntu 14.04 — bash — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — bash — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5380-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18276 CVE-2019-9924 CVE-2016-0634 CVE-2016-7543 CVE-2016-9401 CVE-2017-5932 CVE-2014-6277 CVE-2014-6278  +4 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bash did not properly drop privileges when the binary had the […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — grub2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — grub2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-0335)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-0335 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14865 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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FreeBSD 12 — ru-gaim — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ru-gaim — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libgadu — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0005 CVE-2004-0006 CVE-2004-0007 CVE-2004-0008 CVE-2004-0500 CVE-2004-0754 CVE-2004-0784 CVE-2004-0785  +12 more Upstream summary: Wojtek Kaniewski reports: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libgadu, a library […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mozilla-embedded — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mozilla-embedded — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: firefox & mozilla — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0762 CVE-2004-0765 CVE-2004-0904 CVE-2004-0905 CVE-2004-0908 CVE-2004-0909 CVE-2004-1156 CVE-2004-1157  +12 more Upstream summary: A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues: Heap […]

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Common Problems 121678

Python SSL Module Errors After OpenSSL Library Changes

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 April 2020 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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