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Ubuntu 14.04 — screen-resolution-extra — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — screen-resolution-extra — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 December 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3607-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-8885 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Screen Resolution Extra was using PolicyKit in an unsafe manner. A local attacker could potentially exploit this issue to bypass […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2018-1014 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1084 Upstream summary: Integer overflow in exec/totemcrypto.c:authenticate_nss_2_3() function An integer overflow leading to an out-of-bound read was found in authenticate_nss_2_3() in Corosync. An attacker could craft a […]

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SLES 15 — libcacard0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libcacard0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 21 December 2018 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:1058-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-6414 Upstream summary: Memory leak in the vcard_apdu_new function in card_7816.c in libcacard before 2.5.3 allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — ktorrent-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 December 2018 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ktorrent — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2007-1384 CVE-2007-1385 Upstream summary: Two problems have been found in KTorrent: KTorrent does not properly sanitize file names to filter out ".." components, so […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py27-rsa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py27-rsa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 December 2018 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-rsa — Bleichenbacher'06 signature forgery vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1494 Upstream summary: Filippo Valsorda reports: python-rsa is vulnerable to a straightforward variant of the Bleichenbacher'06 attack against RSA signature verification with […]

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FreeBSD 12 — transmission-deamon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — transmission-deamon — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2018 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libutp — remote denial of service or arbitrary code execution Related CVEs: CVE-2012-6129 Upstream summary: NVD reports: Stack-based buffer overflow in utp.cpp in libutp, as used in Transmission before 2.74 […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — opengtl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2018 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 — citadel — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2018 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: fd_set — bitmap index overflow in multiple applications Upstream summary: 3APA3A reports: If programmer fails to check socket number before using select() or fd_set macros, it's possible to overwrite memory […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — libcgroup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2018 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4845-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14348 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libcgroup incorrectly handled log file permissions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. Table of contents […]

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

SLES 15 — postgresql — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 19 December 2018 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:3107-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14798 Upstream summary: A race condition in the postgresql init script could be used by attackers able to access the postgresql account to escalate their […]

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