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FreeBSD 12 — qt5-gui — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — qt5-gui — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 January 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: qt4-imageformats, qt4-gui, qt5-gui — Multiple Vulnerabilities in Qt Image Format Handling Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0190 CVE-2015-0295 CVE-2015-1858 CVE-2015-1859 CVE-2015-1860 Upstream summary: Richard J. Moore reports: Due to two recent vulnerabilities identified […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — shutter — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: shutter — arbitrary code execution Related CVEs: CVE-2015-0854 Upstream summary: Luke Farone reports: In the "Shutter" screenshot application, I discovered that using the "Show in folder" menu option while viewing […]

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Alpine Linux edge — libidn2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libidn2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2.2.0-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libidn2 2.2.0-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12290 CVE-2019-18224 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships libidn2 2.2.0-r0 which addresses CVE-2019-12290. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 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 — silgraphite — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — silgraphite — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 January 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: graphite2 — code execution vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1521 CVE-2016-1522 CVE-2016-1523 CVE-2016-1526 Upstream summary: Talos reports: An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the font handling of Libgraphite. A specially […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — libapache2-mod-perl2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libapache2-mod-perl2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3825-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2011-2767 Upstream summary: Jan Ingvoldstad discovered that mod_perl incorrectly handled configuration options to disable being used by unprivileged users, contrary to the documentation. A local attacker could […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — neovim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — neovim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 January 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4862-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12735 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Neovim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute […]

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Arch Linux — libpng — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — libpng — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201904-10 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-7317 CVE-2016-10087 Upstream summary: Type: denial of service. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.6.36-1. Fixed in: 1.6.37-1. Group: AVG-868. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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SLES 15 — petsc-doc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — petsc-doc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 January 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2024:0538-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-4332 Upstream summary: The library's failure to check if certain message types support a particular flag, the HDF5 1.8.16 library will cast the structure to […]

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