🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read • Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALEA-2020:1611 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 […]
🟠 High ⏱ 15–60 min Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libgd — integer overflow which could lead to heap buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0990 CVE-2007-3472 CVE-2007-3473 CVE-2007-3474 CVE-2007-3475 CVE-2007-3476 CVE-2007-3477 CVE-2007-3478 +5 more Upstream summary: LibGD reports: An integer overflow […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: cdrdao — unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability Upstream summary: The developers of cdrdao report that there is a potential root exploit in the software. In order to be able to succesfully […]
Introduction Deploying set up bgp routing with bird 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 […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2002-0391 Upstream summary: Integer overflow in xdr_array function in RPC servers for operating systems that use libc, glibc, or other code based on SunRPC including dietlibc, allows remote […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-3728 CVE-2020-36604 Upstream summary: hoek node module before 4.2.0 and 5.0.x before 5.0.3 suffers from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) vulnerability via 'merge' and 'applyToDefaults' functions, which […]
🟠 High ⏱ 15–60 min Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2009-3564 CVE-2010-0156 CVE-2011-0528 CVE-2011-3848 CVE-2011-3869 CVE-2011-3870 CVE-2011-3871 CVE-2011-3872 +12 more Upstream summary: puppetmasterd in puppet 0.24.6 does not reset supplementary groups when it switches to a different user, […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read • Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2021:1807 Upstream summary: GCC Toolset is a compiler toolset that provides recent versions of development tools. GCC Toolset is an Application Stream packaged as a Software Collection. For instructions on usage, see […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 2 September 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4404-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-5963 CVE-2020-5967 CVE-2020-5973 Upstream summary: Thomas E. Carroll discovered that the NVIDIA Cuda grpahics driver did not properly perform access control when performing IPC. An attacker could […]
How to Use Percona XtraBackup for MySQL Hot Backups on RHEL 7 Taking reliable backups of a live MySQL or MariaDB database without interrupting application traffic is a fundamental requirement for any production system. mysqldump works for small databases but locks tables and can run for hours on large datasets. Percona XtraBackup solves this problem […]
