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openSUSE Tumbleweed — obex-data-server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — obex-data-server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2008:019 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2008-2374 Upstream summary: src/sdp.c in bluez-libs 3.30 in BlueZ, and other bluez-libs before 3.34 and bluez-utils before 3.34 versions, does not validate string length fields […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — p11-kit — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — p11-kit — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4677-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-29361 CVE-2020-29362 CVE-2020-29363 Upstream summary: David Cook discovered that p11-kit incorrectly handled certain memory operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause p11-kit to crash, resulting […]

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Common Problems 121170

Locale Misconfiguration Breaks Scripts

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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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Common Problems 121105

Debian 10 Journald Grows Too Large and Consumes Disk

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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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Alpine Linux edge — libgsf — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libgsf — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.14.41-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libgsf 1.14.41-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-9888 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships libgsf 1.14.41-r0 which addresses CVE-2016-9888. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Detect Rootkits with rkhunter on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Detect Rootkits with rkhunter on FreeBSD 12

Introduction This guide explains how to Detect Rootkits with rkhunter on FreeBSD 12 on FreeBSD 12. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for fine-grained […]

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Common Problems 115411

RHEL 7 Host Not Registered to Subscription Channels

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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FreeBSD 12 — torcs — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — torcs — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: plib — remote code execution via buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2010-3384 CVE-2011-4620 Upstream summary: Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been discovered in PLIB, which can be exploited by malicious people […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ja-xlockmore — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ja-xlockmore — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xlockmore — local exploit Related CVEs: CVE-2012-4524 Upstream summary: Ignatios Souvatzis of NetBSD reports: Due to an error in the dclock screensaver in xlockmore, users who explicitly use this screensaver […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libxapian30 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libxapian30 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-0499 Upstream summary: A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet(). Table of contents […]

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