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Debian 11 — dpkg-cross — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — dpkg-cross — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-4950 Upstream summary: gccross in dpkg-cross 2.3.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the tmp/gccross2.log temporary file. NOTE: the vendor disputes this […]

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FreeBSD 13 — compat5x-i — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — compat5x-i — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 October 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: openssl — potential SSL 2.0 rollback Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2969 Upstream summary: Vulnerability: Such applications are affected if they use the option SSL_OP_MSIE_SSLV2_RSA_PADDING. This option is implied by use of SSL_OP_ALL, […]

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Debian 11 — user-mode-linux — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — user-mode-linux — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2002-2016 Upstream summary: User-mode Linux (UML) 2.4.17-8 does not restrict access to kernel address space, which allows local users to execute arbitrary code. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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How to Install cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install cAdvisor for Container Monitoring 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 install cadvisor for container monitoring 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 […]

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

AlmaLinux 8 — pyOpenSSL — 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-2021:1793 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 — audiofile — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — audiofile — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 29 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-5824 CVE-2015-7747 CVE-2017-6827 CVE-2017-6828 CVE-2017-6829 CVE-2017-6830 CVE-2017-6831 CVE-2017-6832  +12 more Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in msadpcm.c in libaudiofile in audiofile 0.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-hwe — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-hwe — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 29 October 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5014-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33909 CVE-2021-3609 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1924611 CVE-2021-29154 CVE-2021-3492 CVE-2021-3493 CVE-2020-27170 CVE-2020-27171  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that the virtual file system implementation in the Linux kernel contained an […]

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SLES 15 — clone-master-clean-up — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — clone-master-clean-up — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 29 October 2021 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2022:3667-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32000 Upstream summary: A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the clone-master-clean-up.sh script of clone-master-clean-up in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3, SUSE Linux […]

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Debian 10 — ruby-kramdown — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — ruby-kramdown — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14001 CVE-2021-28834 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 0.4.34-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — gegl 0.4.34-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45463 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships gegl 0.4.34-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-45463. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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