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SLES 15 — libopus0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libopus0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 April 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:0436-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-0381 Upstream summary: An information disclosure vulnerability in silk/NLSF_stabilize.c in libopus in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its […]

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FreeBSD 12 — nl-openoffice — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — nl-openoffice — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 April 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: openoffice — DOC document heap overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0752 CVE-2005-0941 Upstream summary: AD-LAB reports that a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in OpenOffice's handling of DOC documents. When reading […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mailman-with-htdig — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mailman-with-htdig — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 April 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mailman < 2.1.38 — CSRF vulnerability of list mod or member against list admin page Related CVEs: CVE-2006-1712 CVE-2006-2191 CVE-2006-2941 CVE-2006-3636 CVE-2006-4624 CVE-2008-0564 CVE-2015-2775 CVE-2018-0618  +7 more Upstream summary: Mark […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — gunicorn — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — gunicorn — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 April 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4022-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000164 Upstream summary: It was discovered that gunicorn improperly handled certain input. An attacker could potentially use this issue execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. Table of […]

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SLES 15 — powerpc-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — powerpc-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 April 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:1211-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-4040 Upstream summary: snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — librelp0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — librelp0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2018:0829-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000140 Upstream summary: rsyslog librelp version 1.2.14 and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the checking of x509 certificates from a peer that can […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py35-requests — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py35-requests — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 April 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: www/py-requests — Information disclosure vulnerability Upstream summary: The Requests package before 2.20.0 for Python sends an HTTP Authorization header to an http URI upon receiving a same-hostname https-to-http redirect, which […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.2-rubygem-activesupport — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.2-rubygem-activesupport — 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-SU-2016:0082-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3226 CVE-2015-3227 Upstream summary: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in json/encoding.rb in Active Support in Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before […]

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FreeBSD 12 — a2ps — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — a2ps — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 April 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: a2ps — format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8107 Upstream summary: Jong-Gwon Kim reports: When user runs a2ps with malicious crafted pro(a2ps prologue) file, an attacker can execute arbitrary code. Table […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php56-sqlite — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php56-sqlite — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 April 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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