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FreeBSD 13 — bind — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — bind — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: DNSSEC validators — denial-of-service/CPU exhaustion from KeyTrap and NSEC3 vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0914 CVE-2005-0033 CVE-2005-0034 CVE-2006-4095 CVE-2006-4096 CVE-2009-0696 CVE-2011-1910 CVE-2011-2464  +12 more Upstream summary: Simon Kelley reports: If DNSSEC validation […]

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How to Configure PgBouncer Connection Pooling on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure PgBouncer Connection Pooling on FreeBSD 14

Introduction FreeBSD 14 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure pgbouncer connection pooling on freebsd 14 on FreeBSD 14 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — zstd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — zstd — vulnerability — 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 ALAS2023-2023-244 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-4899 Upstream summary: In zstd, supplying an empty string as an argument to either –output-dir-flat or –output-dir-mirror may cause a buffer overrun. (CVE-2022-4899) Table of contents Symptom […]

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FreeBSD 14 — linux-c6-libevent — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — linux-c6-libevent — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 7 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libevent — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10195 CVE-2016-10196 CVE-2016-10197 Upstream summary: Debian Security reports: CVE-2016-10195: The name_parse function in evdns.c in libevent before 2.1.6-beta allows remote attackers to have unspecified […]

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FreeBSD 14 — linux-c6-libsamplerate — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — linux-c6-libsamplerate — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 7 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libsamplerate — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7697 Upstream summary: NVD reports: In libsamplerate before 0.1.9, a buffer over-read occurs in the calc_output_single function in src_sinc.c via a crafted audio file. […]

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NetBSD 9.4 — lepton — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — lepton — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20819 CVE-2022-26181 CVE-2022-4104 CVE-2018-12108 CVE-2018-20820 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged lepton-[0-9]* for vulnerability class 'heap-overflow'. Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20819 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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

FreeBSD 14 — prometheus — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 7 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: prometheus2 — basic authentication bypass Related CVEs: CVE-2021-29622 CVE-2022-46146 Upstream summary: Prometheus team reports: Prometheus and its exporters can be secured by a web.yml file that specifies usernames and hashed […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 7 December 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Vinyl/Varnish — HTTP/2 parsing deficiency Upstream summary: Vinyl Development Team reports: A deficiency in HTTP/2 request parsing can be exploited to launch a backend request desync attack (request smuggling), which […]

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NetBSD 9.4 — pulseaudio — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — pulseaudio — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Related CVEs: CVE-2009-1894 CVE-2009-1299 CVE-2014-3970 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged pulseaudio<0.9.14nb3 for vulnerability class 'local-root-shell'. Reference: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1894 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage […]

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Debian 12 — epiphany-browser — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — epiphany-browser — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 7 December 2023 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0238 CVE-2007-1084 CVE-2008-5985 CVE-2010-3312 CVE-2014-3566 CVE-2017-1000025 CVE-2018-11396 CVE-2018-12016  +8 more Upstream summary: The International Domain Name (IDN) support in Epiphany allows remote attackers to spoof domain names using […]

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