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openSUSE Tumbleweed — man — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — man — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2007:007 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4250 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — httpcomponents-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — httpcomponents-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5239-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13956 Upstream summary: It was discovered that HttpClient mishandled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. Table […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py27-django — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py27-django — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Django — potential SQL injection vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2012-3442 CVE-2012-3443 CVE-2012-3444 CVE-2013-0305 CVE-2013-0306 CVE-2013-1443 CVE-2013-1664 CVE-2013-1665  +12 more Upstream summary: MITRE CVE reports: Django 1.11 before 1.11.29, 2.2 before 2.2.11, […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-db/mysql-connector-c — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-db/mysql-connector-c — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202105-27 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-2938 CVE-2019-2974 CVE-2020-14539 CVE-2020-14540 CVE-2020-14547 CVE-2020-14550 CVE-2020-14553 CVE-2020-14559  +12 more Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table […]

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FreeBSD 12 — icu — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — icu — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: icu — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7867 CVE-2017-7868 Upstream summary: NVD reports: International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer […]

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How to Manage Users and Groups on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Users and Groups on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Manage Users and Groups 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: zypper […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ark — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ark — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ark — extraction outside of extraction directory Related CVEs: CVE-2020-16116 CVE-2020-24654 Upstream summary: Albert Astals Cid reports: Overview A maliciously crafted TAR archive containing symlink entries would install files anywhere […]

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FreeBSD 12 — hashcash — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — hashcash — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: hashcash — heap overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0687 Upstream summary: Andreas Seltenreich reports that hashcash is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability is caused by improper checking of […]

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FreeBSD 12 — putty-gtk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — putty-gtk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: PuTTY — Release 0.74 fixes two security vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14002 Upstream summary: Simon Tatham reports: [Release 0.74] fixes the following security issues: New configuration option to disable PuTTY's default […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — vtk — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — vtk — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4852-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20843 CVE-2019-15903 Upstream summary: It was discovered that VTK incorrectly handled certain XML files in the embedded Expat library. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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