Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Common Problems 119104

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS sudo apt-get Dist-Upgrade Hangs Indefinitely

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 16 June 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 119040

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Apache 2.4 Fails Config Test on VirtualHost Changes

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 June 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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Ubuntu 14.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5102-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3902 CVE-2018-17983 Upstream summary: USN-5102-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mercurial. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6322-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16062 CVE-2018-16403 CVE-2018-18310 CVE-2018-18520 CVE-2018-18521 CVE-2019-7149 CVE-2019-7150 CVE-2019-7665  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed files. If a user or automated […]

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Common Problems 118966

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – /var fills with logs and stops critical services – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 9 June 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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Common Problems 119134

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS SSL Certificate Renewal Script Fails

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 June 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 119140

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS LDAP Authentication Failures from NSS Cache Staleness

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 June 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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Ubuntu 14.04 — aspell — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — aspell — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5023-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-25051 CVE-2019-17544 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Aspell incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — unixodbc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — unixodbc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 May 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6276-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-7409 Upstream summary: It was discovered that unixODBC incorrectly handled certain unicode to ansi copies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — xmltooling — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — xmltooling — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 May 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3921-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9628 Upstream summary: It was discovered that XMLTooling incorrectly handled certain XML files with invalid data. An attacker could use this issue to cause XMLTooling to crash, […]

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