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Ubuntu 18.04 — fis-gtm — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — fis-gtm — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7422-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-44492 CVE-2021-44498 CVE-2021-44500 CVE-2021-44502 CVE-2021-44506 CVE-2021-44508 CVE-2021-44509 CVE-2021-44510 Upstream summary: It was discovered that FIS-GT.M could incorrectly dereference memory in certain instances. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — kmail — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — kmail — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7731-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-17689 CVE-2020-11880 Upstream summary: Damian Poddebniak, Christian Dresen, Jens Müller, Fabian Ising, Sebastian Schinzel, Simon Friedberger, Juraj Somorovsky, and Jörg Schwenk discovered that KMail could be made […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — maven — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — maven — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5245-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-26291 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Maven followed repositories that are defined in a dependency's Project Object Model (pom) even if the repositories weren't encrypted […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-kramdown — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-kramdown — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6424-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-28834 CVE-2020-14001 Upstream summary: It was discovered that kramdown did not restrict Rouge formatters to the correct namespace. An attacker could use this issue to cause kramdown […]

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Debian 11 — perl — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2002-0703 CVE-2002-1323 CVE-2003-0615 CVE-2003-0618 CVE-2003-0900 CVE-2004-0452 CVE-2004-0976 CVE-2005-0155  +12 more Upstream summary: An interaction between the Perl MD5 module (perl-Digest-MD5) and Perl could produce incorrect MD5 checksums for […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — samba security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — samba security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2021-1647)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 September 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-1647 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14318 CVE-2020-1472 CVE-2020-14323 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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FreeBSD 13 — hdf — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — hdf — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: hdf5 — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2016-4330 CVE-2016-4331 CVE-2016-4332 CVE-2016-4333 Upstream summary: Talos Security reports: CVE-2016-4330 (TALOS-2016-0176) – HDF5 Group libhdf5 H5T_ARRAY Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2016-4331 (TALOS-2016-0177) – HDF5 Group […]

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

AlmaLinux 8 — libselinux — 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-2021:1596 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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FreeBSD 13 — py36-cryptography — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — py36-cryptography — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-cryptography — tag forgery vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2018-10903 Upstream summary: The Python Cryptographic Authority (PyCA) project reports: finalize_with_tag() allowed tag truncation by default which can allow tag forgery in some […]

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How to Tune System Performance with tuned on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Tune System Performance with tuned on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Tune System Performance with tuned on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 12 system is up to date: […]

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