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

FreeBSD 13 — sogo — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: SOGo — SAML user authentication impersonation Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33054 Upstream summary: sogo.nu reports: SOGo was not validating the signatures of any SAML assertions it received. This means any actor with […]

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FreeBSD 13 — py310-Flask-Cors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — py310-Flask-Cors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-Flask-Cors — directory traversal vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25032 Upstream summary: praetorian-colby-morgan reports: An issue was discovered in Flask-CORS (aka CORS Middleware for Flask) before 3.0.9. It allows ../ directory traversal […]

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FreeBSD 13 — ru-wordpress-ru_RU — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ru-wordpress-ru_RU — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: wordpress — XSS Upstream summary: The WordPress team reports: A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Avatar block type Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting on FreeBSD 13

Introduction Deploying configure nginx rate limiting on freebsd 13 on a FreeBSD 13 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within the standard […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — libtar — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — libtar — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-2023:2898 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33643 CVE-2021-33644 CVE-2021-33645 CVE-2021-33646 Upstream summary: The libtar packages contain a C library for manipulating tar archives. The library supports both the strict POSIX tar format and many of […]

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Debian 11 — x11-xserver-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — x11-xserver-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0465 Upstream summary: xrdb.c in xrdb before 1.0.9 in X.Org X11R7.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a hostname obtained from […]

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FreeBSD 13 — sql-ledger — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — sql-ledger — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: sql-ledger — security bypass vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4244 CVE-2006-4731 CVE-2006-5872 Upstream summary: Chris Travers reports: George Theall of Tenable Security notified the LedgerSMB core team today of an authentication bypass […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2.8.113-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — gsoap 2.8.113-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-21783 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships gsoap 2.8.113-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-21783. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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FreeBSD 12 — libmysofa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — libmysofa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libmysoft — Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3756 Upstream summary: Zhengjie Du reports: There are some heap-buffer-overflows in mysofa2json of libmysofa. They are in function loudness, mysofa_check and readOHDRHeaderMessageDataLayout. […]

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Debian 11 — lua5.4 — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — lua5.4 — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15888 CVE-2020-15889 CVE-2020-15945 CVE-2020-24342 CVE-2020-24369 CVE-2020-24370 CVE-2020-24371 CVE-2021-43519  +5 more Upstream summary: Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based […]

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