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

Ubuntu 22.04 — yard — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6731-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-17042 CVE-2019-1020001 CVE-2024-27285 Upstream summary: It was discovered that YARD before 0.9.11 does not block relative paths with an initial ../ sequence, which allows attackers to conduct […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — atril — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — atril — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6808-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-52076 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Atril was vulnerable to a path traversal attack. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to create arbitrary files on […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — commons-io — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — commons-io — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8191-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-47554 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Commons IO's XmlStreamReader class could excessively consume CPU resources under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — unbound — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — unbound — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7080-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-8508 CVE-2024-43167 CVE-2024-43168 CVE-2024-33655 CVE-2023-50387 CVE-2023-50868 CVE-2022-3204 CVE-2022-30698  +12 more Upstream summary: Toshifumi Sakaguchi discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled name compression for large RRsets, which could lead […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7616-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-6378 CVE-2021-42550 Upstream summary: It was discovered that logback could read malicious configuration files from LDAP servers. An attacker with the required permissions could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — gimp-dds — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — gimp-dds — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 12 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7209-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-44441 Upstream summary: Jacob Boerema discovered that the GIMP DDS Plugin incorrectly processed DDS files due to a memory issue. An attacker could exploit this through a […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6781-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-7101 Upstream summary: Le Dinh Hai discovered that Spreadsheet::ParseExcel was passing unvalidated input from a file into a string-type "eval". An attacker could craft a malicious file […]

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

Ubuntu 14.04 — traceroute — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6478-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-46316 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Traceroute did not properly parse command line arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary commands. Table […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — libcue — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6423-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-43641 Upstream summary: It was discovered that CUE incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — gcc-11 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — gcc-11 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 January 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7700-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4039 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the -fstack-protector hardening feature in GCC for AArch64 did not properly protect dynamically-sized local variables such as those created using […]

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