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SLES 15 — shadow — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — shadow — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-RU-2026:1228-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4235 CVE-2023-29383 CVE-2018-7169 CVE-2023-4641 Upstream summary: shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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

SLES 12 — libzypp — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-CU-2021:276-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3200 CVE-2019-20387 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow vulnerability in libsolv 2020-12-13 via the Solver * testcase_read(Pool *pool, FILE *fp, const char *testcase, Queue *job, char **resultp, […]

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SLES 12 — ruby2.1-rubygem-archive-tar-minitar — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — ruby2.1-rubygem-archive-tar-minitar — 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-2021:0115-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-10173 Upstream summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in the minitar before 0.6 and archive-tar-minitar 0.5.2 gems for Ruby allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files […]

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

SLES 15 — ibus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:2387-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14822 Upstream summary: A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to […]

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SLES 15 — libFS6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libFS6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1996 Upstream summary: X.org libFS 1.0.4 and earlier allows X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via vectors related to […]

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

SLES 12 — xfig — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — 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-2024:1196-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2023-45920 CVE-2009-1962 CVE-2009-4227 Upstream summary: Xfig v3.2.8 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference when calling XGetWMHints(). NOTE: this is disputed because it is […]

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SLES 16 — virt-v2v — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 16

SLES 16 — virt-v2v — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 16 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2022:3271-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2022-2211 Upstream summary: A vulnerability was found in libguestfs. This issue occurs while calculating the greatest possible number of matching keys in the get_keys() function. […]

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SLES 15 — libXdmcp6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libXdmcp6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:1862-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-2625 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libXdmcp before 1.1.2 including used weak entropy to generate session keys. On a multi-user system using xdmcp, a […]

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

SLES 15 — pesign — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:0484-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2022-3560 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in pesign. The pesign package provides a systemd service used to start the pesign daemon. This service unit […]

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