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DNS Resolution Fails Due to resolvconf Issues on Ubuntu 14.04

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 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 — jansson — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — jansson — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: jansson — local denial of service vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2016-4425 Upstream summary: QuickFuzz reports: A crash caused by stack exhaustion parsing a JSON was found. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mcollective-puppet-agent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mcollective-puppet-agent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: puppet-agent MCollective plugin — Remote Code Execution vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2015-7331 Upstream summary: Puppet reports: Puppet Enterprise previously included a puppet-agent MCollective plugin that allowed you to pass the `–server` […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — lcms — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-2009-0793 CVE-2013-4276 Upstream summary: cmsxform.c in LittleCMS (aka lcms or liblcms) 1.18, as used in OpenJDK and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a […]

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FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-libsndfile — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-libsndfile — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libsndfile — out-of-bounds reads Related CVEs: CVE-2017-12562 CVE-2017-14245 CVE-2017-14246 CVE-2017-14634 CVE-2017-17456 CVE-2017-17457 CVE-2017-6892 CVE-2017-7585  +7 more Upstream summary: Xin-Jiang on Github reports: CVE-2017-14245 (Medium): An out of bounds read in […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — puppet — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: puppet — Silent Configuration Failure Related CVEs: CVE-2012-1906 CVE-2012-1986 CVE-2012-1987 CVE-2012-1988 CVE-2012-1989 CVE-2012-3864 CVE-2012-3865 CVE-2012-3866  +12 more Upstream summary: Puppet reports: A flaw was discovered in Puppet Agent where the […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libxkbcommon — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libxkbcommon — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 July 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3786-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15853 CVE-2018-15854 CVE-2018-15855 CVE-2018-15856 CVE-2018-15857 CVE-2018-15858 CVE-2018-15859 CVE-2018-15861  +3 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that libxkbcommon incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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SLES 15 — opencc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — opencc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 8 July 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2022:4288-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16982 Upstream summary: Open Chinese Convert (OpenCC) 1.0.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) because BinaryDict::NewFromFile in BinaryDict.cpp may have out-of-bounds […]

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