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

FreeBSD 13 — KeePassX — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: KeePassX — information disclosure Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8378 Upstream summary: Yves-Alexis Perez reports: Starting an export (using File / Export to / KeepassX XML file) and cancelling it leads to KeepassX […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — lzo — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: LZO — potential buffer overrun when processing malicious input data Related CVEs: CVE-2014-4608 Upstream summary: Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer reports, in the package's NEWS file: Fixed a potential integer […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — libgweather — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — libgweather — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2021:4196 Upstream summary: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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How to Set the Hostname on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set the Hostname on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Set the Hostname 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 filtering, […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-1686 CVE-2020-23903 Upstream summary: Array index vulnerability in Speex 1.1.12 and earlier, as used in libfishsound 0.9.0 and earlier, including Illiminable DirectShow Filters and Annodex Plugins for Firefox, […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — movemail — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: emacs — movemail format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0100 Upstream summary: Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs. They can be exploited when connecting […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — mysql-selinux — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — mysql-selinux — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2022:1952 Upstream summary: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-10269 CVE-2019-11371 Upstream summary: BWA (aka Burrow-Wheeler Aligner) before 2019-01-23 has a stack-based buffer overflow in the bns_restore function in bntseq.c via a long sequence name in a […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2491 CVE-2008-0668 CVE-2009-0318 CVE-2013-6836 Upstream summary: Integer overflow in pcre_compile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) before 6.2, as used in multiple products such as Python, Ethereal, and […]

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Debian 11 — texlive-extra — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — texlive-extra — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2012-2120 Upstream summary: latex2man in texlive-extra-utils 2011.20120322, and possibly other versions or packages, when used with the H or T option, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files […]

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