Security Hardening

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Configobj — Regular Expression Denial of Service attack Related CVEs: CVE-2023-26112 Upstream summary: [email protected] reports: All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-setuptools — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47273 Upstream summary: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/security/advisories/GHSA-5rjg-fvgr-3xxf reports: setuptools is a package that allows users to download, build, […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: zip — long path buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1010 Upstream summary: A HexView security advisory reports: When zip performs recursive folder compression, it does not check for the length of […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gd — integer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0990 Upstream summary: infamous41md reports about the GD Graphics Library: There is an integer overflow when allocating memory in the routine that handles loading […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Courier mail services: remotely exploitable buffer overflows Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0224 Upstream summary: The Courier set of mail services use a common Unicode library. This library contains buffer overflows in the […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: lbreakout2 vulnerability in environment variable handling Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0158 Upstream summary: Ulf Härnhammar discovered an exploitable vulnerability in lbreakout2's environmental variable handling. In several instances, the contents of the HOME […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: unzip — permission race vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2475 Upstream summary: Imran Ghory reports a vulnerability within unzip. The vulnerability is caused by a race condition between extracting an archive and […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ppxp — local root exploit Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0392 Upstream summary: A Debian Advisory reports: Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: sup — format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0451 Upstream summary: Debian Security Advisory reports: [email protected] discovered a format string vulnerability in sup, a set of programs to synchronize collections of […]

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: cups-base — HPGL buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1267 Upstream summary: Ariel Berkman has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in CUPS's HPGL input driver. This vulnerability could be exploited to […]