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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libXt6 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libXt6 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1101-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2002 CVE-2013-2005 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in X.org libXt 1.1.3 and earlier allows X servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute […]

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How to Mount CIFS Windows Shares on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Mount CIFS Windows Shares on Debian 10

Introduction How to Mount CIFS Windows Shares on Debian 10 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 10 Buster server. Debian 10 Buster ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 10. […]

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FreeBSD 12 — transmission-daemon — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — transmission-daemon — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: transmission-daemon — vulnerable to dns rebinding attacks Upstream summary: Google Project Zero reports: The transmission bittorrent client uses a client/server architecture, the user interface is the client which communicates to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py37-urllib — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py37-urllib — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 13 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: urllib3 — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20060 CVE-2019-11236 CVE-2019-11324 Upstream summary: NIST reports: (by search in the range 2018/01/01 – 2019/11/10): urllib3 before version 1.23 does not remove the Authorization […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — phpAdsNew — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — castor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — castor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3004 CVE-2013-3004 Upstream summary: The default configuration for the Xerces SAX Parser in Castor before 1.3.3 allows context-dependent attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) […]

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Debian 10 — libreswan — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — libreswan — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 February 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-1763 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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Gentoo Linux — sys-devel/gdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — sys-devel/gdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202003-31 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-1010180 Upstream summary: It was discovered that gdb didn’t properly validate the ELF section sizes from input file. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — brotli — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4568-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8927 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Brotli incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. Table of contents Symptom […]

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SLES 12 — python-cryptography — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — python-cryptography — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 13 February 2020 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2021:197-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-36242 CVE-2020-25659 Upstream summary: In the cryptography package before 3.3.2 for Python, certain sequences of update calls to symmetrically encrypt multi-GB values could result in […]

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