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FreeBSD 13 — poppler — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — poppler — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 6 July 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: poppler — multiple denial of service issues Related CVEs: CVE-2007-3387 CVE-2007-4352 CVE-2007-5392 CVE-2007-5393 CVE-2008-2950 CVE-2017-9775 CVE-2017-9865 Upstream summary: Poppler developers report: Poppler is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability. Successful […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — kamailio — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 6 July 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: kamailio – buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2016-2385 CVE-2018-8828 Upstream summary: A specially crafted REGISTER message with a malformed branch or From tag triggers an off-by-one heap-based buffer overflow in the […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — saab-fonts — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — saab-fonts — 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-2021:4323 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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How to Automate FreeBSD 13 Server Provisioning with Ansible — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Automate FreeBSD 13 Server Provisioning with Ansible

Introduction Deploying automate freebsd 13 server provisioning with ansible 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 […]

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FreeBSD 13 — php56-mbstring — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — php56-mbstring — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 6 July 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: oniguruma — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8874 CVE-2016-5766 CVE-2016-5767 CVE-2016-5768 CVE-2016-5769 CVE-2016-5770 CVE-2016-5771 CVE-2016-5772  +5 more Upstream summary: the PHP project reports: A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during […]

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FreeBSD 13 — php56-zip — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — php56-zip — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 6 July 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8874 CVE-2015-8879 CVE-2016-5385 CVE-2016-5399 CVE-2016-5766 CVE-2016-5767 CVE-2016-5768 CVE-2016-5769  +12 more Upstream summary: PHP reports: Fixed bug #69975 (PHP segfaults when accessing nvarchar(max) defined columns) […]

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Alpine Linux edge — flac — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — flac — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.3.4-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — flac 1.3.4-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-0499 CVE-2021-0561 CVE-2017-6888 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships flac 1.3.4-r0 which addresses CVE-2020-0499. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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SLES 15 — python2-PyYAML — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — python2-PyYAML — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 6 July 2021 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2021:197-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14343 CVE-2020-1747 Upstream summary: A vulnerability was discovered in the PyYAML library in versions before 5.4, where it is susceptible to arbitrary code execution when […]

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FreeBSD 13 — FreeBSD-kernel — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — FreeBSD-kernel — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 6 July 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: FreeBSD — Missing validation in ptrace(PT_SC_REMOTE) Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0230 CVE-2013-3077 CVE-2013-4851 CVE-2013-5209 CVE-2014-1453 CVE-2014-3000 CVE-2014-3711 CVE-2014-3873  +12 more Upstream summary: Problem Description: ptrace(PT_SC_REMOTE) failed to properly validate parameters for the […]

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Oracle Linux 8 – Common Problem 021 – Diagnosis and Fix

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 July 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~3 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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