Troubleshooting

Ubuntu 18.04 — libopenmpt — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libopenmpt — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8206-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-17113 CVE-2018-10017 CVE-2018-11710 Upstream summary: Antonio Morales Maldonado discovered that OpenMPT did not properly limit the length of strings in certain cases, leading to a buffer overflow. […]

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SLES 15 — re2c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — re2c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:3353-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-21232 Upstream summary: re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2019

How to Set Up Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2019 Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a free update management solution from Microsoft that allows administrators to centrally manage the distribution of updates released through Microsoft Update to computers in a network. WSUS reduces internet bandwidth consumption by downloading updates once to […]

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

SLES 15 — aspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2021:14783-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-25051 Upstream summary: objstack in GNU Aspell 0.60.8 has a heap-based buffer overflow in acommon::ObjStack::dup_top (called from acommon::StringMap::add and acommon::Config::lookup_list). Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Gentoo Linux — www-client/seamonkey-bin — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — www-client/seamonkey-bin — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202012-02 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SeaMonkey. Please review referenced release notes for more details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: GnuTLS — Stack write buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4790 CVE-2008-2377 CVE-2008-4989 CVE-2009-1415 CVE-2009-1416 CVE-2009-1417 CVE-2009-2730 CVE-2011-4128  +12 more Upstream summary: GnuTLS reports: When a PKCS#11 token is initialized with gnutls_pkcs11_token_init […]

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Common Problems 118941

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS NVIDIA DKMS fails after kernel update

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 1 November 2019 Affected versions: 14.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — gnome-screensaver — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gnome-screensaver — Multiple monitor hotplug issues Related CVEs: CVE-2010-0414 CVE-2010-0422 Upstream summary: Ray Strode reports: Under certain circumstances it is possible to circumvent the security of screen locking functionality of […]

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Common Problems 113456

Windows Server 2012 R2 – MPIO path failover stalls due to HBA driver defects – Fix and Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 1 November 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related […]

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Common Problems 113431

Windows Server 2012 R2 — Windows Time (W32Time) service drift and sync failures — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 1 November 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related […]

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