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Ubuntu 20.04 — gimp-dds — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — gimp-dds — 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-7209-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-44441 Upstream summary: Jacob Boerema discovered that the GIMP DDS Plugin incorrectly processed DDS files due to a memory issue. An attacker could exploit this through a […]

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

Ubuntu 22.04 — pam — 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-7580-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-6020 CVE-2024-22365 CVE-2022-28321 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2006073 Upstream summary: Olivier BAL-PETRE discovered that the PAM pam_namespace module incorrectly handled user-controlled paths. In environments where pam_namespace is used, a local attacker […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-346 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2747-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5950 Upstream summary: Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — freeipa — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — freeipa — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4792-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-5404 CVE-2016-7030 CVE-2016-9575 Upstream summary: It was discovered that FreeIPA incorrectly handled certificates. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service by […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — znc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-6990-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-39844 CVE-2019-12816 Upstream summary: Johannes Kuhn (DasBrain) discovered that znc incorrectly handled user input under certain operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — gross — 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-6942-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-52159 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Gross incorrectly handled memory when composing log entries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Gross to crash, […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — golang-github-cli-go-gh-v2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — golang-github-cli-go-gh-v2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7362-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-53859 Upstream summary: It was discovered that go-gh incorrectly handled authentication tokens. An attacker could possibly use this issue to leak authentication tokens to the wrong host. […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — modsecurity-apache — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — modsecurity-apache — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7567-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47947 CVE-2025-48866 CVE-2021-42717 CVE-2022-48279 CVE-2023-24021 Upstream summary: Simon Studer discovered that ModSecurity incorrectly handled certain JSON objects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — tidy — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — tidy — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2695-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5522 CVE-2015-5523 Upstream summary: Fernando Muñoz discovered that HTML Tidy incorrectly handled memory. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing specially crafted data, applications […]

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