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SLES 15 — collectd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — collectd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 9 November 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~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 — taglib — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — taglib — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: taglib — heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted audio file Related CVEs: CVE-2018-11439 Upstream summary: Webin security lab – dbapp security Ltd reports: The TagLib::Ogg::FLAC::File::scan function in oggflacfile.cpp in TagLib […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — ktorrent — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ktorrent — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2007-1384 CVE-2007-1385 Upstream summary: Two problems have been found in KTorrent: KTorrent does not properly sanitize file names to filter out ".." components, so […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — plexus-archiver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — plexus-archiver — vulnerability — 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 ALAS2-2018-1043 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1002200 Upstream summary: A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in plexus-archiver when extracting a carefully crafted zip file which holds path traversal file names. A remote […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — kpopup — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: kpopup — local root exploit and local denial of service Related CVEs: CVE-2003-1167 CVE-2003-1170 Upstream summary: Mitre CVE reports: Format string vulnerability in main.cpp in kpopup 0.9.1-0.9.5pre2 allows local users […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — remind — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: remind — buffer overflow with malicious reminder file input Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5957 Upstream summary: Dianne Skoll reports: BUG FIX: Fix a buffer overflow found by Alexander Keller. The bug can […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript-gpl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript-gpl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — zseticcspace() function buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2008-0411 Upstream summary: Chris Evans from the Google Security Team reports: Severity: parsing of evil PostScript file will result in arbitrary […]

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FreeBSD 12 — diablo-jre — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — diablo-jre — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: jdk/jre — Security Vulnerability With Java Plugin Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1029 Upstream summary: The Sun Java Plugin capability in Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_04, and possibly earlier versions, does […]

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