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

FreeBSD 13 — lxr — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: lxr — multiple XSS vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2009-4497 Upstream summary: Dan Rosenberg reports: There are several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in LXR. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute scripts […]

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How to Set Up csh and tcsh Aliases on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up csh and tcsh Aliases on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Set Up csh and tcsh Aliases 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 […]

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Debian 11 — ust — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — ust — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2010-3386 Upstream summary: usttrace in LTTng Userspace Tracer (aka UST) 0.7 places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which allows local users to gain privileges via a […]

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

Debian 11 — zlib — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0107 CVE-2004-0797 CVE-2005-1849 CVE-2005-2096 CVE-2016-9840 CVE-2016-9841 CVE-2016-9842 CVE-2016-9843  +5 more Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the gzprintf function in zlib 1.1.4, when zlib is compiled without vsnprintf or […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — cldr-emoji-annotation — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — cldr-emoji-annotation — 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-2021:4266 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 — pam — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2002-1227 CVE-2005-2977 CVE-2009-0579 CVE-2009-0887 CVE-2009-3232 CVE-2010-3316 CVE-2010-3430 CVE-2010-3431  +12 more Upstream summary: PAM 0.76 treats a disabled password as if it were an empty (null) password, which allows […]

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

Debian 11 — slapi-nis — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2015-0283 CVE-2021-3480 Upstream summary: The slapi-nis plug-in before 0.54.2 does not properly reallocate memory when processing user accounts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — crawl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — crawl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7969-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11722 Upstream summary: David Mendenhall discovered that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was incorrectly handling Lua bytecode embedded in an uploaded .crawlrc file. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — gcc-toolset-10-binutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — gcc-toolset-10-binutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-4649)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-4649 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-42574 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Debian 10 — mediawiki — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — mediawiki — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 11 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16738 CVE-2019-19709 CVE-2020-10960 CVE-2020-15005 CVE-2020-35475 CVE-2021-20270 CVE-2021-35197 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution […]

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