Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — packagekit — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — packagekit — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8195-3 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-41651 CVE-2020-16121 CVE-2020-16122 Upstream summary: USN-8195-1 fixed a vulnerability in PackageKit. This update provides the corresponding fix to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — firejail — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — firejail — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5141-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-26910 Upstream summary: Roman Fiedler discovered that a race condition existed in Firejail when using OverlayFS to prevent writes to the underlying file system. A local attacker […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — simgear — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — simgear — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7965-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-0781 Upstream summary: It was discovered that SimGear could be made to bypass the sandboxing of Nasal scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — mbedtls — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — mbedtls — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8123-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47917 CVE-2021-44732 CVE-2025-48965 CVE-2025-52497 CVE-2025-52496 CVE-2025-27810 CVE-2024-23775 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Mbed TLS incorrectly handled memory allocation failures. A remote attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — kmail — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — kmail — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7731-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-17689 CVE-2020-11880 Upstream summary: Damian Poddebniak, Christian Dresen, Jens Müller, Fabian Ising, Sebastian Schinzel, Simon Friedberger, Juraj Somorovsky, and Jörg Schwenk discovered that KMail could be made […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — python-pip — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — python-pip — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8010-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-66418 CVE-2026-21441 CVE-2025-47273 CVE-2024-37891 CVE-2018-25091 CVE-2023-43804 CVE-2023-45803 CVE-2022-40898  +1 more Upstream summary: Several security issues were discovered in the libraries bundled in pip. An attacker could possibly […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — libblockdev — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — libblockdev — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7577-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-6019 Upstream summary: USN-7577-1 fixed a vulnerability in libblockdev. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — xterm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — xterm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4746-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-27135 Upstream summary: Tavis Ormandy discovered that xterm incorrectly handled certain character sequences. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause xterm to crash, resulting in […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — python-ldap — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — python-ldap — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7828-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-61912 CVE-2025-61911 CVE-2021-46823 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Python LDAP incorrectly handled special characters in the special character filtering function. A remote attacker could possibly use […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — dropbear — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — dropbear — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7292-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-36369 CVE-2023-48795 Upstream summary: Manfred Kaiser discovered that Dropbear through 2020.81 does not properly check the available authentication methods in the client-side SSH code. An attacker could […]

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