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

FreeBSD 13 — zsh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 6 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: zsh — Arbitrary command execution vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45444 Upstream summary: Marc Cornellà reports: Some prompt expansion sequences, such as %F, support 'arguments' which are themselves expanded in case they […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — davmail — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 6 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: davmail — fix potential CVE-2014-3566 vulnerability (POODLE) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3566 Upstream summary: Mickaël Guessant reports: DavMail 4.6.0 released Enhancements: Fix potential CVE-2014-3566 vulnerability. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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Debian 11 — jackson-dataformat-cbor — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — jackson-dataformat-cbor — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 6 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-28491 Upstream summary: This affects the package com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor from 0 and before 2.11.4, from 2.12.0-rc1 and before 2.12.1. Unchecked allocation of byte buffer can cause a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception. […]

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

AlmaLinux 8 — llvm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2021:4743 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-42574 Upstream summary: LLVM Toolset provides the LLVM compiler infrastructure framework, the Clang compiler for the C and C++ languages, the LLDB debugger, and related tools for code analysis. […]

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How to Configure Mandatory Access Control on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Mandatory Access Control on FreeBSD 13

Introduction FreeBSD 13 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure mandatory access control on freebsd 13 on FreeBSD 13 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux […]

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

Debian 11 — rust-failure — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 6 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-25010 CVE-2020-25575 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in the failure crate through 2019-11-13 for Rust. Type confusion can occur when __private_get_type_id__ is overridden. Table of contents Symptom […]

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FreeBSD 13 — py39-pyrad — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — py39-pyrad — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pyrad — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2013-0294 CVE-2013-0342 Upstream summary: Nathaniel McCallum reports: packet.py in pyrad before 2.1 uses weak random numbers to generate RADIUS authenticators and hash passwords, which […]

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FreeBSD 13 — miniupnpc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — miniupnpc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: miniupnpc — integer signedness error Related CVEs: CVE-2015-6031 CVE-2017-8798 Upstream summary: Tintinweb reports: An integer signedness error was found in miniupnp's miniwget allowing an unauthenticated remote entity typically located on […]

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FreeBSD 13 — horde-imp — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — horde-imp — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: horde-imp — XSS vulnerability Upstream summary: The Horde team reports: Thanks to Naumann IT Security Consulting for reporting the XSS vulnerability. The major changes compared to IMP version H3 (4.3.7) […]

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FreeBSD 13 — zinf — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — zinf — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: zinf — potential buffer overflow playlist support Upstream summary: The audio player Zinf is vulnerable to a buffer-overflow bug in the management of the playlist files. Table of contents Symptom […]

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