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

FreeBSD 13 — pglogical — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pglogical — shell command injection in pglogical.create_subscription() Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3515 Upstream summary: 2ndQuadrant reports: Fix pg_dump/pg_restore execution (CVE-2021-3515) Correctly escape the connection string for both pg_dump and pg_restore so that […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — bogofilter-sqlite — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bogofilter — heap corruption by invalid base64 input Related CVEs: CVE-2010-2494 CVE-2012-5468 Upstream summary: David Relson reports: Fix a heap corruption in base64 decoder on invalid input. Analysis and patch […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — vte291 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — vte291 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2020:4451 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-8625 CVE-2019-8710 CVE-2019-8720 CVE-2019-8743 CVE-2019-8764 CVE-2019-8766 CVE-2019-8769 CVE-2019-8771  +12 more Upstream summary: GNOME is the default desktop environment of AlmaLinux. The following packages have been upgraded to a later […]

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FreeBSD 13 — ghostscript-gnu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ghostscript-gnu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — insecure temporary file creation vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0967 Upstream summary: Ghostscript is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is likely due to a design […]

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Debian 11 — freexl — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — freexl — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2015-2753 CVE-2015-2754 CVE-2015-2776 CVE-2017-2923 CVE-2017-2924 CVE-2018-7435 CVE-2018-7436 CVE-2018-7437  +2 more Upstream summary: FreeXL before 1.0.0i allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack corruption) or possibly […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — qt5-qtimageformats — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — qt5-qtimageformats — 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-2021:4172 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3481 Upstream summary: Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: adwaita-qt (1.2.1), python-qt5 (5.15.0), qgnomeplatform (0.7.1), qt5 […]

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Debian 11 — miniupnpc — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3985 CVE-2015-6031 CVE-2017-1000494 CVE-2017-8798 Upstream summary: The getHTTPResponse function in miniwget.c in MiniUPnP 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted headers that […]

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Debian 11 — tt-rss — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — tt-rss — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-1000035 CVE-2017-16896 CVE-2020-25787 CVE-2020-25788 CVE-2020-25789 Upstream summary: Tiny Tiny RSS before 829d478f is vulnerable to XSS window.opener attack Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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Alpine Linux edge — haserl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 0.9.36-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — haserl 0.9.36-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-29133 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships haserl 0.9.36-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-29133. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Configure SSL/TLS with OpenSSL on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SSL/TLS with OpenSSL on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Configure SSL/TLS with OpenSSL 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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