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openSUSE Tumbleweed — monitoring-plugins — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — monitoring-plugins — 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-2019:1702-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2007-5623 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the check_snmp function in Nagios Plugins (nagios-plugins) 1.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — xrdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xrdb — root hole via rogue hostname Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0465 Upstream summary: Matthias Hopf reports: By crafting hostnames with shell escape characters, arbitrary commands can be executed in a root […]

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FreeBSD 12 — zh-tin — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — zh-tin — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tin — buffer overflow vulnerabilities Upstream summary: Urs Janssen and Aleksey Salow report possible buffer overflows in tin versions 1.8.0 and 1.8.1. OpenPKG project elaborates there is an allocation off-by-one […]

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FreeBSD 12 — tdiary-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — tdiary-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tdiary — injection vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2006-6174 Upstream summary: An undisclosed eRuby injection vulnerability had been discovered in tDiary. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libgc1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libgc1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2012-2673 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in the (1) GC_generic_malloc and (2) calloc functions in malloc.c, and the (3) GC_generic_malloc_ignore_off_page function in mallocx.c in Boehm-Demers-Weiser […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — poppler — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — poppler — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3905-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9200 CVE-2018-20551 CVE-2019-7310 CVE-2018-20481 CVE-2018-20650 CVE-2018-16646 CVE-2018-19149 CVE-2018-19058  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — setup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — setup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2019-1158 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1113 Upstream summary: Setup in Amazon Linux 2 added /sbin/nologin and /usr/sbin/nologin to /etc/shells. This violates security assumptions made by pam_shells and some daemons which allow access […]

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SLES 15 — libecryptfs1 — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libecryptfs1 — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2011:0898-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1831 CVE-2011-1832 CVE-2011-1834 CVE-2011-1835 CVE-2011-1837 CVE-2011-1833 CVE-2014-9687 CVE-2016-1572  +1 more Upstream summary: utils/mount.ecryptfs_private.c in ecryptfs-utils before 90 does not properly check mountpoint permissions, which allows […]

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Debian 10 — netty — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — netty — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16869 CVE-2019-20444 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — python-reportlab — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — python-reportlab — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-5790)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-5790 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19450 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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