SLES 12

SLES 12 — minicom — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — minicom — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:1092-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7467 Upstream summary: A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way minicom before version 2.7.1 handled VT100 escape sequences. A malicious terminal device could […]

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SLES 12 — ksh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — ksh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2024:2756-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14868 Upstream summary: In ksh version 20120801, a flaw was found in the way it evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw […]

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SLES 12 — libpng15 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libpng15 — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-2690 CVE-2011-2692 CVE-2011-2691 CVE-2011-3328 CVE-2011-3464 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in libpng 1.0.x before 1.0.55, 1.2.x before 1.2.45, 1.4.x before 1.4.8, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, when […]

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SLES 12 — powerpc-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — powerpc-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:1211-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-4040 Upstream summary: snap in powerpc-utils 1.2.20 produces an archive with fstab and yaboot.conf files potentially containing cleartext passwords, and lacks a warning about reviewing […]

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SLES 12 — mgetty — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — mgetty — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:2850-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16741 CVE-2008-4936 CVE-2018-16742 CVE-2018-16743 CVE-2018-16744 CVE-2018-16745 CVE-2019-1010190 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly […]

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SLES 12 — python-pywbem — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — python-pywbem — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:0580-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-6418 Upstream summary: PyWBEM 0.7 and earlier uses a separate connection to validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a peer via an […]

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SLES 12 — sysconfig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — sysconfig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2012:0096-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4182 Upstream summary: Missing escaping of ESSID values in sysconfig of SUSE Linux Enterprise allows attackers controlling an access point to cause execute arbitrary code. […]

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SLES 12 — vino — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — vino — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2011:009 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0904 CVE-2019-15681 CVE-2011-1164 CVE-2011-0905 Upstream summary: The rfbSendFramebufferUpdate function in server/libvncserver/rfbserver.c in vino-server in Vino 2.x before 2.28.3, 2.32.x before 2.32.2, 3.0.x before 3.0.2, and […]

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SLES 12 — libxkbcommon0 — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libxkbcommon0 — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2021:232-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15854 CVE-2018-15855 CVE-2018-15856 CVE-2018-15857 CVE-2018-15858 CVE-2018-15862 CVE-2018-15864 Upstream summary: Unchecked NULL pointer usage in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash […]

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