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Ubuntu 18.04 — uw-imap — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — uw-imap — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4160-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19518 Upstream summary: It was discovered that UW IMAP incorrectly handled inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary OS commands. Table of […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — cups-filters — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — cups-filters — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7878-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-64503 CVE-2025-57812 CVE-2025-64524 CVE-2024-47176 CVE-2023-24805 Upstream summary: It was discovered that cups-filters incorrectly handled certain malformed TIFF image files. A remote attacker could use this issue to […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — bsh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — bsh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2923-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-2510 Upstream summary: Alvaro Muñoz and Christian Schneider discovered that BeanShell incorrectly handled deserialization. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Table […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — cloud-init — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — cloud-init — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7677-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-6174 CVE-2024-11584 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2020375 CVE-2023-1786 https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/2013967 CVE-2022-2084 Upstream summary: Harry Sintonen discovered that the hotplugd socket in cloud-init was world writable. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — libapache2-mod-auth-openidc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — libapache2-mod-auth-openidc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7446-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-31492 Upstream summary: It was discovered that mod_auth_openidc incorrectly handled certain POST requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. Table of contents […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — ecryptfs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — ecryptfs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2876-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1572 CVE-2014-9687 Upstream summary: Jann Horn discovered that mount.ecryptfs_private would mount over certain directories in the proc filesystem. A local attacker could use this to escalate their […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-nokogiri — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-nokogiri — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7659-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-29181 CVE-2022-40303 CVE-2020-26247 Upstream summary: It was discovered Nokogiri did not correctly parse XML Schemas. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — twitter-bootstrap3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — twitter-bootstrap3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7556-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-6484 CVE-2024-6531 CVE-2024-6485 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bootstrap did not correctly sanitize certain input in the carousel component. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — db5.3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — db5.3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4004-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-8457 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Berkeley DB incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read sensitive information. Table of contents […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — vcftools — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — vcftools — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4835-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-11099 CVE-2018-11129 CVE-2018-11130 CVE-2019-1010127 Upstream summary: It was discovered that VCFtools improperly handled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted input file, VCFtools […]

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