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

Oracle Linux 8 — mod_auth_mellon security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2019-3421)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 11 September 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2019-3421 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3877 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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FreeBSD 13 — gtar — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — gtar — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 11 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gtar — buffer overflow in rmt client Related CVEs: CVE-2006-0300 CVE-2006-6097 CVE-2007-4131 CVE-2007-4476 CVE-2010-0624 Upstream summary: Jakob Lell reports: The rmt client implementation of GNU Tar/Cpio contains a heap-based buffer […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — pear-XML_RPC — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pear-XML_RPC — remote PHP code injection vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-1921 CVE-2005-2498 Upstream summary: A Hardened-PHP Project Security Advisory reports: When the library parses XMLRPC requests/responses, it constructs a string of […]

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

Debian 11 — impacket — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-31800 Upstream summary: Multiple path traversal vulnerabilities exist in smbserver.py in Impacket through 0.9.22. An attacker that connects to a running smbserver instance can list and write to […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-activerecord — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-activerecord — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2021:1468-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-22880 Upstream summary: The PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record before 6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5, 5.2.4.5 suffers from a regular expression denial of service (REDoS) vulnerability. Carefully crafted […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: kronolith — arbitrary local file inclusion vulnerability Upstream summary: iDefense Labs reports: Remote exploitation of a design error in Horde's Kronolith could allow an authenticated web mail user to execute […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — phpAdsNew — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pear-XML_RPC — remote PHP code injection vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2498 Upstream summary: A Hardened-PHP Project Security Advisory reports: When the library parses XMLRPC requests/responses, it constructs a string of PHP […]

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How to Configure Network Bridging on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network Bridging on FreeBSD 13

Introduction Deploying configure network bridging 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 base […]

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

Debian 11 — libmwaw — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9433 Upstream summary: Document Liberation Project libmwaw before 2017-04-08 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the MsWrd1Parser::readFootnoteCorrespondance function in lib/MsWrd1Parser.cxx. Table of […]

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