Security Hardening

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — tnef — vulnerability — 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-2017-8911 Upstream summary: An integer underflow has been identified in the unicode_to_utf8() function in tnef 1.4.14. This might lead to invalid write operations, controlled by […]

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FreeBSD 12 — libvncserver — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — libvncserver — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libvncserver — multiple buffer overflows Related CVEs: CVE-2014-6051 CVE-2014-6052 CVE-2014-6053 CVE-2014-6054 CVE-2014-6055 CVE-2016-9941 CVE-2016-9942 Upstream summary: libvnc server reports: Two unrelated buffer overflows can be used by a malicious server […]

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How to Configure SSH Hardening on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SSH Hardening on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure ssh hardening on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux distribution. […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — bip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bip — buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2012-0806 Upstream summary: Julien Tinnes reports, Bip doesn't check if fd is equal or larger than FD_SETSIZE. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — bsdiff — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2022:3094-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-9862 Upstream summary: Integer signedness error in bspatch.c in bspatch in bsdiff, as used in Apple OS X before 10.11.6 and other products, allows remote […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ja-uim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ja-uim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: uim — privilege escalation vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0503 Upstream summary: The uim developers reports: Masanari Yamamoto discovered that incorrect use of environment variables in uim. This bug causes privilege escalation […]

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How to Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure nginx as a reverse proxy on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from […]

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SLES 15 — libdmx1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libdmx1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1992 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in X.org libdmx 1.1.2 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python311-lmdb — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python311-lmdb — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16224 CVE-2019-16225 CVE-2019-16227 CVE-2019-16226 CVE-2019-16228 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in py-lmdb 0.97. For certain values of md_flags, mdb_node_add does not properly set up […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — libdmx — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xorg — protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1981 CVE-2013-1982 CVE-2013-1983 CVE-2013-1984 CVE-2013-1985 CVE-2013-1986 CVE-2013-1987 CVE-2013-1988  +12 more Upstream summary: freedesktop.org reports: Ilja van Sprundel, […]

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