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Ubuntu 14.04 — protobuf — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — protobuf — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5945-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-22569 CVE-2021-22570 CVE-2022-1941 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly validate field com.google.protobuf.UnknownFieldSet in protobuf-java. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — gnuplot — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — gnuplot — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7773-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-31178 CVE-2025-31176 CVE-2025-31181 CVE-2025-31179 CVE-2025-31180 CVE-2025-31177 CVE-2025-3359 Upstream summary: ChenYiFan Liu discovered that Gnuplot did not correctly handle certain memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — rar — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — rar — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7349-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-30333 CVE-2023-40477 Upstream summary: It was discovered that RAR incorrectly handled certain paths. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially crafted RAR […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — python-psutil — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — python-psutil — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4204-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18874 Upstream summary: Riccardo Schirone discovered that psutil incorrectly handled certain reference counting operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause psutil to crash, resulting in […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — cups-filters — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — cups-filters — multiple vulnerabilities (6 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-7878-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-64503 CVE-2025-57812 CVE-2025-64524 CVE-2024-47076 CVE-2024-47176 CVE-2023-24805 Upstream summary: It was discovered that cups-filters incorrectly handled certain malformed TIFF image files. A remote attacker could use this issue […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — ovn — 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-7396-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-0650 CVE-2024-2182 Upstream summary: Marius Berntsberg, Trygve Vea, Tore Anderson, Rodolfo Alonso, Jay Faulkner, and Brian Haley discovered that OVN incorrectly handled certain crafted UDP packets. A […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — cifs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — cifs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7688-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-27239 CVE-2021-20208 CVE-2020-14342 CVE-2022-29869 Upstream summary: Aurélien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly use […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — djoser — 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-7354-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-21543 Upstream summary: Diego Cebrián discovered that djoser did not properly handle user authentication. An attacker with valid credentials could possibly use this to bypass authentication checks, […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — tqdm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — tqdm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7216-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-34062 Upstream summary: It was discovered that tqdm did not properly sanitize non-boolean CLI Arguments. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — lucene-solr — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — lucene-solr — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7283-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-0193 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the Apache Solr DataImportHandler module incorrectly handled certain request parameters in a default configuration. A remote attacker could possibly use […]

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