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Amazon Linux 2 — libmspack — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — libmspack — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2019-1310 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-18584 CVE-2018-18585 CVE-2019-1010305 CVE-2018-14679 CVE-2018-14680 CVE-2018-14681 CVE-2018-14682 Upstream summary: In mspack/cab.h in libmspack before 0.8alpha and cabextract before 1.8, the CAB block input buffer is one byte […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 16 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2019:723-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-17833 CVE-2010-3609 CVE-2016-4912 CVE-2016-7567 Upstream summary: OpenSLP releases in the 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 code streams have a heap-related memory corruption issue which may manifest itself […]

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SLES 12 — libqt5-qtimageformats — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libqt5-qtimageformats — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:0705-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19871 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.11.3. There is QTgaFile Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & […]

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SLES 12 — ocaml — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — ocaml — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 16 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:0983-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-9838 CVE-2015-8869 Upstream summary: The caml_ba_deserialize function in byterun/bigarray.c in the standard library in OCaml 4.06.0 has an integer overflow which, in situations where marshalled […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — tcpdump — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — tcpdump — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2023-2119 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14463 CVE-2019-15167 CVE-2018-19519 Upstream summary: The VRRP parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer over-read in print-vrrp.c:vrrp_print() for VRRP version 3, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-14463. […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – initramfs drops to BusyBox with UUID not found – Fix & Prevention

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 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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FreeBSD 12 — cinepaint — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — cinepaint — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: dcraw — integer overflow condition Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3885 Upstream summary: ocert reports: The dcraw tool, as well as several other projects re-using its code, suffers from an integer overflow condition […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — xine — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xine — multiple remote string vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1905 Upstream summary: c0ntexb reports: There are 2 format string bugs in the latest version of Xine that could be exploited by […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Apache 2.4 Fails Config Test on VirtualHost Changes

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 June 2019 Affected versions: 14.04 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libcgroup1 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libcgroup1 — 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 advisory SUSE-SR:2011:007 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1006 CVE-2011-1022 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_cgroup_spec function in tools/tools-common.c in the Control Group Configuration Library (aka libcgroup or libcg) before 0.37.1 […]

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