Operations

Common Problems 120532

Debian 11: chrony not syncing and system clock drift

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 📖 ~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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Debian 11 — libzstd — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libzstd — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11922 CVE-2021-24031 CVE-2021-24032 CVE-2022-4899 Upstream summary: A race condition in the one-pass compression functions of Zstandard prior to version 1.3.8 could allow an attacker to write bytes out […]

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Debian 11 — libimobiledevice — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libimobiledevice — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2142 CVE-2016-5104 Upstream summary: userpref.c in libimobiledevice 1.1.4, when $HOME and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME are not set, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4935-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-1076 CVE-2021-1077 CVE-2021-1052 CVE-2021-1053 CVE-2021-1056 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel incorrectly performed access control. A local attacker […]

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How to Configure SLES 12 for Container Workloads — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SLES 12 for Container Workloads

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure SLES 12 for Container Workloads on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 12 system is up to date: zypper refresh […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — multipath-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — multipath-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5731-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-41973 CVE-2022-41974 Upstream summary: It was discovered that multipath-tools incorrectly handled symlinks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue, in combination with other issues, to escalate […]

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Common Problems 117084

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS /boot Full After Repeated Kernel Updates

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 📖 ~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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Alpine Linux edge — libcaca — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libcaca — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 0.99_beta20-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libcaca 0.99_beta20-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-30498 CVE-2021-30499 CVE-2021-3410 CVE-2018-20544 CVE-2018-20545 CVE-2018-20546 CVE-2018-20547 CVE-2018-20548  +1 more Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships libcaca 0.99_beta20-r0 which […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — postgresql-jdbc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — postgresql-jdbc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-2378)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-2378 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-41946 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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Oracle Linux 9 — less — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — less — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-3725)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 July 2022 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-3725 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-46663 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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