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Ubuntu 18.04 — libseccomp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libseccomp — 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-4001-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9893 Upstream summary: Jann Horn discovered that libseccomp did not correctly generate 64-bit syscall argument comparisons with arithmetic operators (LT, GT, LE, GE). An attacker could use […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — nvidia-graphics-drivers-346-updates — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2747-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5950 Upstream summary: Dario Weisser discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled certain IOCTL writes. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain root […]

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

Ubuntu 22.04 — nano — 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-7064-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-5742 Upstream summary: It was discovered that nano allowed a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If nano was killed while editing, the permissions granted […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — smarty4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — smarty4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7377-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-35226 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Smarty did not properly sanitize template file names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Smarty to crash, […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — webapps-greasemonkey — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — webapps-greasemonkey — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2743-3 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1498681 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1069793 Upstream summary: USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Future Firefox updates will require all addons be signed and unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey and webaccounts-browser-extension will not go through […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — twitter-bootstrap3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — twitter-bootstrap3 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-7556-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-6484 CVE-2024-6531 CVE-2024-6485 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bootstrap did not correctly sanitize certain input in the carousel component. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — nfs-utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — nfs-utils — 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-4400-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3689 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the nfs-utils package set incorrect permissions on the /var/lib/nfs directory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — bubblewrap — 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-7046-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-42472 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2077087 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Flatpak incorrectly handled certain persisted directories. An attacker could possibly use this issue to read and write files in […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — twitter-bootstrap4 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — twitter-bootstrap4 — 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-7556-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-6484 CVE-2024-6531 CVE-2024-6485 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bootstrap did not correctly sanitize certain input in the carousel component. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — libhibernate3-java — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libhibernate3-java — 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-6845-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25638 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Hibernate incorrectly handled certain inputs with unsanitized literals. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a […]

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