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FreeBSD 14 — py38-yaml — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — py38-yaml — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 May 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: PyYAML — arbitrary code execution Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14343 CVE-2020-1747 Upstream summary: A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.4, where it is susceptible to arbitrary code […]

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FreeBSD 14 — mosquitto — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — mosquitto — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 May 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mosquitto — NULL pointer dereference Upstream summary: Roger Light reports: If an authenticated client connected with MQTT v5 sent a malformed CONNACK message to the broker a NULL pointer dereference […]

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FreeBSD 14 — ossec-hids-local — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — ossec-hids-local — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 May 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: security/ossec-hids-* — root escalation via syscheck feature Related CVEs: CVE-2014-5284 CVE-2015-3222 Upstream summary: OSSEC reports: The CVE-2015-3222 vulnerability, which allows for root escalation via sys check has been fixed in […]

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FreeBSD 14 — pop3proxy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — pop3proxy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 May 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: up-imapproxy — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1035 Upstream summary: Timo Sirainen reports: There are various bugs in up-imapproxy which can crash it. Since up-imapproxy runs in a single process with […]

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FreeBSD 14 — shotwell — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — shotwell — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: shotwell — failure to encrypt authentication Upstream summary: Jens Georg reports: I have just released Shotwell 0.24.5 and 0.25.4 which turn on HTTPS encryption all over the publishing plugins. Users […]

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FreeBSD 14 — xemacs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — xemacs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: emacs — movemail format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0100 Upstream summary: Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs. They can be exploited when connecting […]

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FreeBSD 14 — py39-mysql-connector-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — py39-mysql-connector-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 April 2025 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-mysql-connector-python — Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL Related CVEs: CVE-2025-21548 Upstream summary: Oracle reports: Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors product of Oracle MySQL (component: Connector/Python). Supported […]

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