Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Common Problems 118924

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Boot Drops to initramfs Prompt

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 11 November 2019 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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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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Common Problems 119136

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – rsyslog causes excessive disk I/O and latency – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 31 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 14.04 — irssi — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — irssi — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 26 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3862-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-5882 CVE-2018-7050 CVE-2018-7051 CVE-2018-7052 CVE-2018-7053 CVE-2018-7054 CVE-2018-5205 CVE-2018-5206  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Irssi incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — poppler — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — poppler — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3905-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9200 CVE-2018-20551 CVE-2019-7310 CVE-2018-20481 CVE-2018-20650 CVE-2018-16646 CVE-2018-19149 CVE-2018-19058  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that poppler incorrectly handled certain PDF files. An attacker could possibly use […]

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Common Problems 118944

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS DNS Resolution Fails Intermittently

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 20 October 2019 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — thunderbird — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — thunderbird — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 16 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3927-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-18506 CVE-2019-9788 CVE-2019-9790 CVE-2019-9791 CVE-2019-9792 CVE-2019-9793 CVE-2019-9795 CVE-2019-9796  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Thunderbird allowed PAC files to specify that requests to localhost are […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libgcrypt11 — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libgcrypt11 — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 12 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4236-3 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-13627 CVE-2018-0495 CVE-2017-7526 CVE-2017-9526 CVE-2016-6313 CVE-2015-7511 CVE-2014-3591 CVE-2015-0837  +1 more Upstream summary: USN-4236-1 fixed a vulnerability in Libgcrypt. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 […]

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Common Problems 119066

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Apache returns 502 due to PHP-FPM backend issues – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 14.04 — librabbitmq — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — librabbitmq — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 October 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4214-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18609 Upstream summary: It was discovered that RabbitMQ incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Table of contents Symptom […]

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