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openSUSE Tumbleweed — rubygem-puppet — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rubygem-puppet — multiple vulnerabilities (10 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-2011-3848 CVE-2011-3872 CVE-2012-3864 CVE-2012-3865 CVE-2012-3866 CVE-2013-3567 CVE-2013-4761 CVE-2014-3253  +2 more Upstream summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows […]

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SLES 15 — opencv — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — opencv — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2018:1438-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-18009 CVE-2019-14491 CVE-2019-14492 CVE-2019-15939 Upstream summary: In OpenCV 3.3.1, a heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function cv::HdrDecoder::checkSignature in modules/imgcodecs/src/grfmt_hdr.cpp. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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SLES 12 — ksh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — ksh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2024:2756-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14868 Upstream summary: In ksh version 20120801, a flaw was found in the way it evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mariadb55-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mariadb55-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: MariaDB — Vulnerability in C API Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3194 CVE-2015-4792 CVE-2015-4802 CVE-2015-4807 CVE-2015-4815 CVE-2015-4826 CVE-2015-4830 CVE-2015-4836  +12 more Upstream summary: MariaDB reports: Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with […]

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Alpine Linux edge — xkbcomp — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — xkbcomp — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.5.0-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — xkbcomp 1.5.0-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15853 CVE-2018-15859 CVE-2018-15861 CVE-2018-15863 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships xkbcomp 1.5.0-r0 which addresses CVE-2018-15853. Table of contents Symptom […]

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RHEL 7 yum dependency conflict after enabling mixed repositories

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 June 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2020:1717-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16707 Upstream summary: Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ap22-mod_jk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ap22-mod_jk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mod_jk — information disclosure Related CVEs: CVE-2014-8111 Upstream summary: NIST reports: Apache Tomcat Connectors (mod_jk) before 1.2.41 ignores JkUnmount rules for subtrees of previous JkMount rules, which allows remote attackers […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ricochet — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ricochet — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ricochet — information disclosure Upstream summary: special reports: By sending a nickname with some HTML tags in a contact request, an attacker could cause Ricochet to make network requests without […]

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