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Ubuntu 16.04 — pygments — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — pygments — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 November 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4897-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-27291 CVE-2021-20270 Upstream summary: Ben Caller discovered that Pygments incorrectly handled parsing certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into parsing a specially crafted […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 November 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: irssi — Use after free when sending SASL login to the server Related CVEs: CVE-2010-1155 CVE-2010-1156 CVE-2016-7044 CVE-2016-7045 CVE-2017-10965 CVE-2017-10966 CVE-2017-15227 CVE-2017-15228  +12 more Upstream summary: Irssi reports: Use after […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-4.14.232-177.418 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-4.14.232-177.418 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-060 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-40490 CVE-2021-33909 Upstream summary: No CVE associated with this advisory Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — linux-opera — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 November 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: opera — moderately severe issue Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0411 CVE-2004-0717 CVE-2004-0718 CVE-2004-0721 CVE-2004-1156 CVE-2004-1157 CVE-2004-1158 CVE-2004-1160  +12 more Upstream summary: Opera reports: Fixed a moderately severe issue, as reported by Attila […]

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How to Configure sudo for Non-Root Users on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure sudo for Non-Root Users on FreeBSD 13

Introduction FreeBSD 13 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure sudo for non-root users on freebsd 13 on FreeBSD 13 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 […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — python27:2.7 — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — python27:2.7 — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2023-7042)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 November 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-7042 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-32681 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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FreeBSD 13 — evince — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — evince — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 November 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: evince and atril — command injection vulnerability in CBT handler Related CVEs: CVE-2006-5864 CVE-2017-1000083 Upstream summary: GNOME reports: The comic book backend in evince 3.24.0 (and earlier) is vulnerable to […]

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FreeBSD 13 — torrentflux — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — torrentflux — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 November 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: torrentflux — User-Agent XSS Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2006-5227 Upstream summary: Steven Roddis reports that User-Agent string is not properly escaped when handled by torrentflux. This allows for arbitrary code insertion. […]

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Windows Server 2016 – Security event log overflow causing dropped audit events – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 2 November 2021 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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How to Set Up VLAN Tagging on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up VLAN Tagging on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Set Up VLAN Tagging on FreeBSD 13 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 13 server operator. FreeBSD 13 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet […]

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