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FreeBSD 13 — ghostscript7-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ghostscript7-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — denial of service (crash) via crafted Postscript files Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3228 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier […]

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FreeBSD 15 — py39-rencode — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — py39-rencode — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py39-rencode — infinite loop that could lead to Denial of Service Related CVEs: CVE-2021-40839 Upstream summary: NIST reports: The rencode package through 1.0.6 for Python allows an infinite loop in […]

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FreeBSD 13 — php56-mysqli — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — php56-mysqli — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mysql — SSL Downgrade Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3152 Upstream summary: Duo Security reports: Researchers have identified a serious vulnerability in some versions of Oracle’s MySQL database product that allows an attacker […]

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FreeBSD 13 — iojs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — iojs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: node, iojs, and v8 — denial of service Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5380 Upstream summary: node reports: This release of Node.js fixes a bug that triggers an out-of-band write in V8's utf-8 […]

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FreeBSD 15 — postgresql13-plperl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — postgresql13-plperl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: PostgreSQL — PL/Perl environment variable changes execute arbitrary code Related CVEs: CVE-2024-10979 Upstream summary: PostgreSQL project reports: Incorrect control of environment variables in PostgreSQL PL/Perl allows an unprivileged database user […]

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FreeBSD 13 — ufraw — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ufraw — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: dcraw — integer overflow condition Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3885 Upstream summary: ocert reports: The dcraw tool, as well as several other projects re-using its code, suffers from an integer overflow condition […]

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FreeBSD 14 — iv — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — iv — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tiff — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0803 CVE-2004-0804 CVE-2004-0886 CVE-2004-1308 CVE-2005-1544 Upstream summary: A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered […]

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FreeBSD 15 — qt6-networkauth — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 — qt6-networkauth — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: QtNetworkAuth — predictable seeding of PRNG in QAbstractOAuth Related CVEs: CVE-2024-36048 Upstream summary: Andy Shaw reports: The OAuth1 implementation in QtNetworkAuth created nonces using a PRNG that was seeded with […]

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FreeBSD 13 — py33-cryptography — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — py33-cryptography — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-cryptography — vulnerable HKDF key generation Related CVEs: CVE-2016-9243 Upstream summary: Alex Gaynor reports: Fixed a bug where “HKDF“ would return an empty byte-string if used with a “length“ less […]

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