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FreeBSD 12 — racoon — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — racoon — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: racoon — remote denial-of-service Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0155 CVE-2004-0164 CVE-2004-0183 CVE-2004-0184 CVE-2004-0392 CVE-2004-0403 CVE-2005-0398 Upstream summary: Sebastian Krahmer discovered that the racoon ISAKMP daemon could be crashed with a maliciously crafted […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — pdfjam — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pdfjam — insecure temporary files Related CVEs: CVE-2008-5743 Upstream summary: Secunia reports: Some security issues have been reported in PDFjam, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform […]

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Gentoo Linux — sys-cluster/libqb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — sys-cluster/libqb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202107-03 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12779 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libqb used predictable filenames (under /dev/shm and /tmp) without O_EXCL. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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FreeBSD 12 — phpbb — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — phpbb — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: phpbb3 — multiple issues Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1315 CVE-2005-0258 CVE-2005-0259 CVE-2005-2086 CVE-2005-3310 CVE-2005-3415 CVE-2005-3416 CVE-2005-3417  +6 more Upstream summary: phpbb developers reports: Password updater working with PostgreSQL – The cron for […]

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

Arch Linux — kauth — 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-201705-12 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8422 Upstream summary: Type: privilege escalation. Status: Fixed. Affected: 5.33.0-1. Fixed in: 5.33.0-2. Group: AVG-269. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mysql80-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mysql80-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: MySQL — Multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2016-9843 CVE-2018-0739 CVE-2018-2767 CVE-2018-3054 CVE-2018-3056 CVE-2018-3058 CVE-2018-3060 CVE-2018-3061  +12 more Upstream summary: Oracle reports: See linked CVE's for details. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libwpd — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libwpd — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-SA:2007:023 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2007-0002 CVE-2017-14226 CVE-2018-19208 Upstream summary: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in WordPerfect Document importer/exporter (libwpd) before 0.8.9 allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – OpenSSL legacy protocol mismatch breaks outbound integrations

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 December 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 18.04.6 📖 ~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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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Journald Log Growth Consumes Disk

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 December 2019 Affected versions: 16.04 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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IBM AIX 7.1 — CVE-2019-4738 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.1

IBM AIX 7.1 — CVE-2019-4738 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 15–45 min  Last verified: 14 December 2019 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2019-4738, IBM Support Bulletin CVE: CVE-2019-4738 NVD summary: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Standard Edition 5.2.0.0 through 5.2.6.5 and 6.0.0.0 through 6.0.3.1 discloses sensitive information to an authenticated user from the dashboard UI […]

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