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

NetBSD 9.4 — freeciv — 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 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-39047 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged freeciv>=2.6.7<3.0.3 for vulnerability class 'buffer-overflow'. Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39047 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis […]

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Debian 12 — golang-github-prometheus-client-golang — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — golang-github-prometheus-client-golang — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 December 2023 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2022-21698 Upstream summary: client_golang is the instrumentation library for Go applications in Prometheus, and the promhttp package in client_golang provides tooling around HTTP servers and clients. In client_golang […]

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Alpine Linux 3.19 — lxc — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.19 — lxc — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.19 / fixed in 5.0.1-r2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — lxc 5.0.1-r2 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-47952 CVE-2019-5736 CVE-2018-6556 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.19 ships lxc 5.0.1-r2 which addresses CVE-2022-47952. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Debian 11 — minidlna — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — minidlna — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 21 December 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2738 CVE-2013-2739 CVE-2013-2745 CVE-2020-12695 CVE-2020-28926 CVE-2022-26505 CVE-2023-33476 CVE-2023-47430  +1 more Upstream summary: minidlna has SQL Injection that may allow retrieval of arbitrary files Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Debian 12 — policyd-weight — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — policyd-weight — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 December 2023 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-1569 CVE-2008-1570 Upstream summary: policyd-weight 0.1.14 beta-16 and earlier allows local users to modify or delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files that are used […]

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Alpine Linux 3.19 — ctags — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.19

Alpine Linux 3.19 — ctags — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.19 / fixed in 5.8-r5 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — ctags 5.8-r5 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-7204 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vv3.19 ships ctags 5.8-r5 which addresses CVE-2014-7204. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Configure ACLs on Ext4 File Systems on Debian 12 — step-by-step Debian 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure ACLs on Ext4 File Systems on Debian 12

Introduction How to Configure ACLs on Ext4 File Systems on Debian 12 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 12 Bookworm server. Debian 12 Bookworm ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from […]

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Debian 11 — gcc-9 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — gcc-9 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 December 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-15847 CVE-2023-4039 Upstream summary: The POWER9 backend in GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) before version 10 could optimize multiple calls of the __builtin_darn intrinsic into a single call, thus […]

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openSUSE Leap 15.5 — libdwarf1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Leap 15.5

openSUSE Leap 15.5 — libdwarf1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Leap 15.5 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:2784-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-27545 Upstream summary: libdwarf before 20201017 has a one-byte out-of-bounds read because of an invalid pointer dereference via an invalid line table in a […]

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