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FreeBSD 12 — proftpd-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — proftpd-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 28 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: proftpd — arbitrary code execution vulnerability with chroot Related CVEs: CVE-2008-4242 CVE-2008-4247 CVE-2009-0542 CVE-2009-0543 Upstream summary: The FreeBSD security advisory FreeBSD-SA-11:07.chroot reports: If ftpd is configured to place a user […]

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How to Install Podman as a Rootless Docker Alternative on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Podman as a Rootless Docker Alternative on RHEL 7

How to Install Podman as a Rootless Docker Alternative on RHEL 7 Podman is a daemonless, rootless container engine developed by Red Hat that is fully compatible with the OCI (Open Container Initiative) standard and largely compatible with the Docker CLI. Unlike Docker, Podman does not require a long-running background daemon running as root, which […]

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FreeBSD 12 — gtk-vnc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — gtk-vnc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gtk-vnc — bounds checking vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2017-5884 CVE-2017-5885 Upstream summary: Daniel P. Berrange reports: CVE-2017-5884 – fix bounds checking for RRE, hextile and copyrect encodings CVE-2017-5885 – fix color […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libsmi — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2011:001 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2010-2891 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the smiGetNode function in lib/smi.c in libsmi 0.4.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Object Identifier […]

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FreeBSD 12 — freexl — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — freexl — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Multiple exploitable heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities exists in FreeXL 1.0.3 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-2776 CVE-2017-2923 CVE-2017-2924 Upstream summary: Cisco TALOS reports: An exploitable heap based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — horde5-imp — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — horde5-imp — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2012:0287-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2012-0791 CVE-2012-0909 Upstream summary: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Horde IMP before 5.0.18 and Horde Groupware Webmail Edition before 4.0.6 allow remote attackers to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — linux-blackdown-jdk — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — linux-blackdown-jdk — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: jdk/jre — Applet Caching May Allow Network Access Restrictions to be Circumvented Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1029 CVE-2005-1080 CVE-2007-5232 Upstream summary: SUN reports: A vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) with […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php56-xsl — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php56-xsl — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-6834 CVE-2015-6835 CVE-2015-6836 CVE-2015-6837 CVE-2015-6838 Upstream summary: PHP reports: Core: Fixed bug #70172 (Use After Free Vulnerability in unserialize()). Fixed bug #70219 (Use after […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — postgresql — 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-2017:3107-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14798 Upstream summary: A race condition in the postgresql init script could be used by attackers able to access the postgresql account to escalate their […]

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SLES 15 — perl-Net-Server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — perl-Net-Server — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:0746-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1841 Upstream summary: Net-Server, when the reverse-lookups option is enabled, does not check if the hostname resolves to the source IP address, which might allow […]

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