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NetBSD 9.4 — ffmepg010 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — ffmepg010 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5479 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged ffmepg010-[0-9]* for vulnerability class 'denial-of-service'. Reference: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5479 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — go-toolset and golang — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — go-toolset and golang — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2022-5799)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 5 June 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-5799 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-1962 CVE-2022-28131 CVE-2022-30631 CVE-2022-32148 CVE-2022-1705 CVE-2022-30633 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — shadow — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — shadow — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 5 June 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6640-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4641 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1998169 CVE-2013-4235 CVE-2017-12424 CVE-2018-7169 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1690820 CVE-2016-6252 CVE-2017-2616 Upstream summary: It was discovered that shadow was not properly sanitizing memory when running the password utility. An attacker […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — rsyslog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — rsyslog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023-2023-001 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3634 CVE-2022-24903 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in the way rsyslog handled invalid log message priority values. In certain configurations, a local attacker, or a remote […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — cargo — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — cargo — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 June 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6275-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-38497 Upstream summary: Addison Crump discovered that Cargo incorrectly set file permissions on UNIX-like systems when extracting crate archives. If the crate would contain files writable by […]

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NetBSD 9.4 — ruby200-rest-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — ruby200-rest-client — vulnerability — 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 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged ruby200-rest-client<1.7.3 for vulnerability class 'sensitive-information-exposure'. Reference: https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/349 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — traceroute — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — traceroute — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2024:3211 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-46316 Upstream summary: The traceroute utility displays the route used by IP packets on their way to a specified network (or Internet) host. Security Fix(es): * traceroute: improper command […]

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How to Set Up SNMP on Windows Server 2022 — step-by-step Windows Server 2022 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up SNMP on Windows Server 2022

How to Configure IIS CORS Headers on Windows Server 2022 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a browser security mechanism that restricts web pages from making requests to a different domain than the one that served the page. When you host an API or web service on IIS and your frontend application is served from a […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — libxml-parser-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — libxml-parser-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 June 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8174-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2006-10002 CVE-2006-10003 Upstream summary: It was discovered that XML::Parser incorrectly handled certain multi-byte UTF-8 characters. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted […]

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Alpine Linux edge — py3-jwcrypto — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — py3-jwcrypto — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.5.1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — py3-jwcrypto 1.5.1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-6681 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships py3-jwcrypto 1.5.1-r0 which addresses CVE-2023-6681. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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