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FreeBSD 15 — proxychains-ng — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — proxychains-ng — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: proxychains-ng — current path as the first directory for the library search path Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3887 Upstream summary: Mamoru TASAKA reports: proxychains4 sets LD_PRELOAD to dlopen libproxychains4.so and execvp() the […]

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FreeBSD 15 — xtrlock — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — xtrlock — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xtrlock — xtrlock does not block multitouch events Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0079 CVE-2016-10894 Upstream summary: Debian reports: xtrlock did not block multitouch events so an attacker could still input and thus […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — kernel-livepatch-6.18.25-52.107 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — kernel-livepatch-6.18.25-52.107 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2026-135 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-43284 Upstream summary: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: esp: avoid in-place decrypt on shared skb frags "Dirty Frag" and other issues […]

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AlmaLinux 9 — libvpx — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 9

AlmaLinux 9 — libvpx — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2026:4447 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-2447 CVE-2025-5283 CVE-2023-44488 CVE-2023-5217 CVE-2024-5197 Upstream summary: The libvpx packages provide the VP8 SDK, which allows the encoding and decoding of the VP8 video codec, commonly used with the […]

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FreeBSD 15 — ja-ppxp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — ja-ppxp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ppxp — local root exploit Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0392 Upstream summary: A Debian Advisory reports: Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening […]

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FreeBSD 15 — linux-f10-expat — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — linux-f10-expat — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: expat2 — Parser crash with specially formatted UTF-8 sequences Related CVEs: CVE-2009-3720 Upstream summary: CVE reports: The updatePosition function in lib/xmltok_impl.c in libexpat in Expat 2.0.1, as used in Python, […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — perl-Data-Dumper — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — perl-Data-Dumper — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-2026:8096 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-40909 CVE-2023-47038 Upstream summary: Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix(es): * perl: Perl threads have a […]

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FreeBSD 15 — xine — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — xine — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xine — multiple remote string vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1905 Upstream summary: c0ntexb reports: There are 2 format string bugs in the latest version of Xine that could be exploited by […]

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FreeBSD 15 — ghostscript7-korfont — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — ghostscript7-korfont — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — exploitable buffer overflow in (T)BCP in PS interpreter Related CVEs: CVE-2023-28879 Upstream summary: [email protected] reports: In Artifex Ghostscript through 10.01.0, there is a buffer overflow leading to potential […]

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FreeBSD 15 — linux-c7-nss — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — linux-c7-nss — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 April 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: nss — Use-after-free in TLS 1.2 generating handshake hashes Related CVEs: CVE-2016-2834 CVE-2017-5461 CVE-2017-5462 CVE-2017-7805 Upstream summary: Mozilla reports: During TLS 1.2 exchanges, handshake hashes are generated which point to […]

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