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Ubuntu 22.04 — lua-bitop — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — lua-bitop — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8169-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-49844 CVE-2022-24834 CVE-2024-31449 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Redis incorrectly handled certain specially crafted Lua scripts. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — xz-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — xz-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5378-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-1271 Upstream summary: Cleemy Desu Wayo discovered that XZ Utils incorrectly handled certain filenames. If a user or automated system were tricked into performing xzgrep operations with […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — flightcrew — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — flightcrew — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4055-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-13032 CVE-2019-13241 CVE-2019-13453 Upstream summary: Mike Salvatore discovered that FlightCrew improperly handled certain malformed EPUB files. An attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to cause a denial […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — cairo — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — cairo — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8140-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35492 CVE-2017-9814 CVE-2019-6462 CVE-2019-6461 Upstream summary: Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Cairo did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — plexus-archiver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — plexus-archiver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4832-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1002200 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Plexus Archiver incorrectly handled directory traversal during extraction. An attacker could possibly use this for a Zip-Slip attack. Table of […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — evince — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — evince — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4024-1 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1794848 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1788929 CVE-2019-11459 Upstream summary: As a security improvement, this update adjusts the AppArmor profile for the Evince thumbnailer to reduce access to the system and adjusts […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — systemd — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — systemd — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8119-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-29111 CVE-2025-4598 CVE-2022-3821 CVE-2022-4415 CVE-2022-45873 Upstream summary: It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain cgroup paths. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — xterm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — xterm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4746-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-27135 Upstream summary: Tavis Ormandy discovered that xterm incorrectly handled certain character sequences. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause xterm to crash, resulting in […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — node-path-to-regexp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — node-path-to-regexp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8290-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-45296 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Path-to-Regexp incorrectly handled route patterns containing multiple named parameters separated by non-delimiter characters such as hyphens. An attacker could possibly […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — snapd — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — snapd — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8102-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-3888 CVE-2024-1724 CVE-2024-29068 CVE-2024-29069 CVE-2023-1523 CVE-2022-3328 Upstream summary: Qualys discovered that snapd incorrectly handled certain operations in the snap's private /tmp directory. If systemd-tmpfiles is enabled to […]

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