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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ioquake3 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ioquake3 — 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 security advisory Related CVEs: CVE-2006-2082 CVE-2006-2236 Upstream summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in Quake 3 engine, as used in products including Quake3 Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, and Star Trek Voyager: […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — electrum — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: electrum — JSONRPC vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6353 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: JSONRPC vulnerability Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution […]

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FreeBSD 12 — piwik — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: piwik — XSS vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2009-4137 CVE-2010-1453 CVE-2010-2786 CVE-2015-7815 CVE-2015-7816 Upstream summary: Piwik reports: We have identified and fixed several XSS security issues in this release. Table of contents […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — gsoap — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gsoap — remote code execution via via overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9765 Upstream summary: Senrio reports: Genivia gSOAP is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to properly bounds […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mercurial — multiple issues Related CVEs: CVE-2016-3068 CVE-2016-3069 CVE-2016-3105 CVE-2016-3630 CVE-2017-1000115 CVE-2017-1000116 Upstream summary: mercurial developers reports: Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that […]

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FreeBSD 12 — WebCalendar-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — WebCalendar-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: WebCalendar — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2012-0846 CVE-2012-1495 CVE-2012-1496 Upstream summary: Hanno Boeck reports: Fixes [are now available] for various security vulnerabilities including LFI (local file inclusion), XSS (cross site […]

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RHEL 8 NFS Mount Returning Stale File Handle Errors

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 22 November 2019 📖 ~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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — xscreensaver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — xscreensaver — 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-SU-2015:2053-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8025 Upstream summary: driver/subprocs.c in XScreenSaver before 5.34 does not properly perform an internal consistency check, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass the lock […]

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Windows Server 2016 — Active Directory Domain Services (NTDS) service fails to start — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 22 November 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~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 — php5-ftp — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php5-ftp — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php5 — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-4643 CVE-2015-4644 Upstream summary: The PHP project reports: DOM and GD: Fixed bug #69719 (Incorrect handling of paths with NULs). FTP: Improved fix for […]

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