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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ssh-audit — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ssh-audit — vulnerability — 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-2018:3801-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15473 Upstream summary: OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after […]

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FreeBSD 12 — tidy-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — tidy-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tidy — heap-buffer-overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5522 CVE-2015-5523 Upstream summary: Geoff McLane reports: tidy is affected by a write out of bounds when processing malformed html files. This issue could be […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript9-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript9-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — denial of service (crash) via crafted Postscript files Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3228 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier […]

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FreeBSD 12 — p5-HTML-Scrubber — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — p5-HTML-Scrubber — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: p5-HTML-Scrubber — XSS vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5667 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML-Scrubber module before 0.15 for Perl, when the comment feature is enabled, allows […]

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FreeBSD 12 — nagios-plugins — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — nagios-plugins — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: nagios-plugins — Long Location Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2007-5198 Upstream summary: A Secunia Advisory reports: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the redir() function […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — kbd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — kbd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2011:007 Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0460 Upstream summary: The init script in kbd, possibly 1.14.1 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/defkeymap.map. Table of contents Symptom […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — ruby_r — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ruby — CGI DoS Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0983 Upstream summary: The Ruby CGI.rb module contains a bug which can cause the CGI module to go into an infinite loop, thereby causing […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — linux-flock — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mozilla — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2007-4879 CVE-2007-5959 CVE-2008-0016 CVE-2008-0412 CVE-2008-0413 CVE-2008-0414 CVE-2008-0415 CVE-2008-0417  +12 more Upstream summary: The Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2008-37 UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow MFSA […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — python-crypto — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — python-crypto — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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 ALAS2ANSIBLE2-2024-011 Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7459 CVE-2018-6594 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c in Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as […]

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