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Ubuntu 14.04 — openslp-dfsg — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — openslp-dfsg — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 March 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4919-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-5544 CVE-2017-17833 CVE-2018-12938 CVE-2012-4428 CVE-2015-5177 Upstream summary: It was discovered that OpenSLP did not properly validate URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause OpenSLP […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — sdl-image1.2 — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — sdl-image1.2 — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 4 March 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4238-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-3977 CVE-2019-12216 CVE-2019-12217 CVE-2019-12218 CVE-2019-12219 CVE-2019-12220 CVE-2019-12221 CVE-2019-12222  +4 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that SDL_image incorrectly handled certain image files. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — librelp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — librelp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2018-998 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000140 Upstream summary: Stack-based buffer overflow in relpTcpChkPeerName function in src/tcp.c: rsyslog librelp version 1.2.14 and earlier contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the checking of x509 […]

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SLES 15 — ipsec-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — ipsec-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 March 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:0423-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10396 Upstream summary: The racoon daemon in IPsec-Tools 0.8.2 contains a remotely exploitable computational-complexity attack when parsing and storing ISAKMP fragments. The implementation permits a […]

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Debian 9 — drupal7 — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — drupal7 — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 4 March 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-6922 CVE-2017-6927 CVE-2018-7600 CVE-2018-7602 CVE-2019-11358 CVE-2019-11831 CVE-2019-6338 CVE-2019-6341  +2 more Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-solv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-solv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:1927-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20532 Upstream summary: There is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_read) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 March 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mini_httpd,thttpd — Buffer overflow in htpasswd Upstream summary: Alessio Santoru reports: Buffer overflow in htpasswd. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step […]

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Arch Linux — ocaml — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — ocaml — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201610-17 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8869 Upstream summary: Type: information disclosure. Status: Fixed. Affected: 4.02.3-2. Fixed in: 4.03.0-1. Group: AVG-13. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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Debian 9 — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 March 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6360 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 18.04 — mqtt-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — mqtt-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 March 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6685-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-0222 Upstream summary: It was discovered that mqtt-client incorrectly handled memory while parsing malformed MQTT frames. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, […]

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