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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — gpgme — 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-2014:1073-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3564 Upstream summary: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the status_handler function in (1) engine-gpgsm.c and (2) engine-uiserver.c in GPGME before 1.5.1 allow remote attackers to […]

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RHEL 7 SELinux Boolean Missing for NFS Home Directories

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 July 2019 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~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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Debian 9 — tmpreaper — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — tmpreaper — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 July 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3461 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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Ubuntu 16.04 — pound — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — pound — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 July 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4702-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10711 CVE-2018-21245 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Pound incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests A remote attacker could use it to retrieve some sensitive information. (CVE-2016-10711, CVE-2018-21245) […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initramfs Drop to BusyBox Shell

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 July 2019 Affected versions: 18.04 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-2018-20732 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.1

IBM AIX 7.1 — CVE-2018-20732 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 15–45 min  Last verified: 13 July 2019 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2018-20732, IBM PSIRT advisory page CVE: CVE-2018-20732 NVD summary: SAS Web Infrastructure Platform before 9.4M6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Java deserialization variant. References: www.securityfocus.com/bid/106648   support.sas.com/kb/63/391.html   […]

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RHEL 8 kdump Fails To Capture vmcore After Kernel Panic – RHEL 8 Post 150

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 July 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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FreeBSD 12 — fsplib — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: fsplib — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2007-3961 CVE-2007-3962 Upstream summary: A Secunia Advisory reports: fsplib can be exploited to compromise an application using the library. A boundary error exists in […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php55-sqlite — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php55-sqlite — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php — use-after-free vulnerability Upstream summary: Symeon Paraschoudis reports: Use-after-free vulnerability in sqlite3SafetyCheckSickOrOk() Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution […]

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