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FreeBSD 15 — pine — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — pine — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 March 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pine remotely exploitable buffer overflow in newmail.c Related CVEs: CVE-2002-1320 CVE-2003-0720 CVE-2003-0721 Upstream summary: Kris Kennaway reports a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in newmail.c. Mike Silbersack submitted the fix. Table […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — libgcrypt — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — libgcrypt — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023-2026-1705 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-41989 CVE-2024-2236 Upstream summary: Libgcrypt before 1.12.2 sometimes allows a heap-based buffer overflow and denial of service via crafted ECDH ciphertext to gcry_pk_decrypt. (CVE-2026-41989) Table of contents […]

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FreeBSD 15 — hlstats — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — hlstats — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 March 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: hlstats — multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4454 CVE-2006-6780 CVE-2006-6781 CVE-2007-2812 Upstream summary: Kefka reports multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities within hlstats. The vulnerabilities are caused due to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py311-postorius — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py311-postorius — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: postorius — XSS Related CVEs: CVE-2026-44742 Upstream summary: NIST reports: Postorius through 1.3.13 does not escape HTML in the message subject when rendering it in the Held messages pop-up, as […]

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

Alpine Linux edge — ruby-addressable — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2.9.0-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — ruby-addressable 2.9.0-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-35611 CVE-2021-32740 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships ruby-addressable 2.9.0-r0 which addresses CVE-2026-35611. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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FreeBSD 15 — zydis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — zydis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: zydis — heap buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2021-41253 Upstream summary: Zyantific reports: Zydis users of versions v3.2.0 and older that use the string functions provided in zycore in order to […]

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Debian 13 — mhc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — mhc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0120 Upstream summary: adb2mhc in the mhc-utils package before 0.25+20010625-7.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a default temporary directory with a […]

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Debian 13 — sed — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — sed — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2026-5958 Upstream summary: When sed is invoked with both -i (in-place edit) and –follow-symlinks, the function open_next_file() performs two separate, non-atomic filesystem operations on the same path: 1. resolves […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — perl-File-Path — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — perl-File-Path — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2026:8096 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-40909 CVE-2023-47038 Upstream summary: Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix(es): * perl: Perl threads have a […]

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Debian 13 — archvsync — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — archvsync — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8805 Upstream summary: Debian ftpsync before 20171017 does not use the rsync –safe-links option, which allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks via a crafted upstream mirror. Table […]

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