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SLES 12 — mailx — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — mailx — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:1658-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 Upstream summary: The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 3 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4405 Upstream summary: The cupshelpers scripts in system-config-printer in Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, as used by the automatic printer driver download service, uses an "insecure […]

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SLES 12 — libXi6 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libXi6 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 October 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1984 CVE-2013-1995 CVE-2013-1998 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in X.org libXi 1.7.1 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a […]

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

SLES 12 — alsa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 26 September 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2009-0035 Upstream summary: alsa-utils 1.0.19 and later versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack via the /usr/bin/alsa-info and /usr/bin/alsa-info.sh scripts. […]

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SLES 12 — newt-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — newt-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 September 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2009:017 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2009-2905 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in textbox.c in newt 0.51.5, 0.51.6, and 0.52.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) […]

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SLES 12 — libmpfr4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libmpfr4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 September 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory RHSA-2025:9332 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-9474 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the mpfr_strtofr function in GNU MPFR before 3.1.2-p11 allows context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors related to […]

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SLES 12 — perl-Cyrus-IMAP — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — perl-Cyrus-IMAP — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 September 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:1457-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8076 CVE-2015-8077 CVE-2015-8078 CVE-2009-3235 CVE-2011-3372 Upstream summary: The index_urlfetch function in index.c in Cyrus IMAP 2.3.x before 2.3.19, 2.4.x before 2.4.18, 2.5.x before 2.5.4 allows […]

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SLES 12 — libgypsy0 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libgypsy0 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 September 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0523 CVE-2011-0524 Upstream summary: gypsy 0.8 does not properly restrict the files that can be read while running with root privileges, which allows local users […]

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SLES 12 — ppc64-diag — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — ppc64-diag — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 9 September 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:0928-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-4038 CVE-2014-4039 Upstream summary: ppc64-diag 2.6.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack related to (1) rtas_errd/diag_support.c and /tmp/get_dt_files, (2) scripts/ppc64_diag_mkrsrc […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 8 September 2015 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:2719-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-1624 Upstream summary: Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.get_runtime_dir function in python-xdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to […]

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