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

FreeBSD 12 — remind — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: remind — buffer overflow with malicious reminder file input Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5957 Upstream summary: Dianne Skoll reports: BUG FIX: Fix a buffer overflow found by Alexander Keller. The bug can […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript-gpl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ghostscript-gpl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — zseticcspace() function buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2008-0411 Upstream summary: Chris Evans from the Google Security Team reports: Severity: parsing of evil PostScript file will result in arbitrary […]

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FreeBSD 12 — diablo-jre — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — diablo-jre — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: jdk/jre — Security Vulnerability With Java Plugin Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1029 Upstream summary: The Sun Java Plugin capability in Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2_01, 1.4.2_04, and possibly earlier versions, does […]

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

Debian 10 — libvpx — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9232 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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Ubuntu 16.04 — cflow — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — cflow — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5375-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16165 Upstream summary: It was discovered that GNU cflow was incorrectly handling memory cleanup operations at the end of a compilation module. An attacker could possibly use […]

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SLES 15 — libmodplug1 — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libmodplug1 — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-11311 CVE-2018-10017 CVE-2018-11710 CVE-2018-20860 CVE-2018-20861 CVE-2019-14382 CVE-2019-14383 CVE-2019-17113 Upstream summary: soundlib/Load_psm.cpp in OpenMPT through 1.26.12.00 and libopenmpt before 0.2.8461-beta26 has a heap buffer overflow with […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-python/pycrypto — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-python/pycrypto — 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-202007-62 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6594 Upstream summary: It was discovered that PyCrypto incorrectly generated ElGamal key parameters. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis […]

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS – no audio output after kernel update – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 📖 ~1 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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How to Set Up a Web Application Firewall on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Web Application Firewall on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up a Web Application Firewall 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 […]

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