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Ubuntu 22.04 — cifs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — cifs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7536-2 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2113906 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2112614 CVE-2025-2312 CVE-2020-14342 CVE-2021-20208 CVE-2022-27239 CVE-2022-29869 Upstream summary: USN-7536-1 fixed vulnerabilities in cifs-utils. This update introduced a regression in certain environments. This update fixes the problem. […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — nano — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — nano — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7064-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-5742 Upstream summary: It was discovered that nano allowed a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If nano was killed while editing, the permissions granted […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — webaccounts-browser-extension — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — webaccounts-browser-extension — 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-2743-3 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1498681 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1069793 Upstream summary: USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Future Firefox updates will require all addons be signed and unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey and webaccounts-browser-extension will not go through […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — soundtouch — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — soundtouch — multiple vulnerabilities (7 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-4826-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9258 CVE-2017-9259 CVE-2017-9260 CVE-2018-1000223 CVE-2018-17096 CVE-2018-17097 CVE-2018-17098 Upstream summary: It was discovered that SoundTouch incorrectly handled certain WAV files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — composer — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — composer — multiple vulnerabilities (6 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-7603-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-35241 CVE-2024-35242 CVE-2024-24821 CVE-2023-43655 CVE-2022-24828 CVE-2021-29472 Upstream summary: Thomas Chauchefoin discovered that Composer did not correctly handle certain arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-devise-two-factor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-devise-two-factor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7050-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-43177 CVE-2024-8796 Upstream summary: Benoit Côté-Jodoin and Michael Nipper discovered that Devise-Two-Factor incorrectly handled one-time password validation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to intercept and […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — libcdio — 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-6855-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-36600 Upstream summary: Mansour Gashasbi discovered that libcdio incorrectly handled certain memory operations when parsing an ISO file, leading to a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker could […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — modsecurity-apache — 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-7567-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47947 CVE-2025-48866 CVE-2021-42717 CVE-2022-48279 CVE-2023-24021 Upstream summary: Simon Studer discovered that ModSecurity incorrectly handled certain JSON objects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-4038-4 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1834494 CVE-2016-3189 CVE-2019-12900 Upstream summary: USN-4038-1 fixed a vulnerability in bzip2. The update introduced a regression causing bzip2 to incorrect raises CRC errors for some files. This […]

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