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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – journal logs fill root filesystem unexpectedly – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 2 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 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 16.04 — libdbi-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libdbi-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5030-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-10402 CVE-2020-14393 CVE-2019-20919 CVE-2020-14392 Upstream summary: USN-5030-1 addressed vulnerabilities in Perl DBI module. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It […]

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

Ubuntu 16.04 — gegl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5251-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45463 Upstream summary: It was discovered that GEGL incorrectly filtered and escaped file path input data when using the C system() function for execution of the ImageMagick […]

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

Ubuntu 20.04 — opensaml — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7364-1 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2103420 Upstream summary: Alexander Tan discovered that the OpenSAML C++ library was susceptible to forging of signed SAML messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-oracle-5.0 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-oracle-5.0 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4325-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19046 CVE-2020-8428 CVE-2019-19053 CVE-2019-19056 CVE-2019-19058 CVE-2019-19059 CVE-2019-19066 CVE-2019-19068  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that the IPMI message handler implementation in the Linux kernel did not […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libxstream-java — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libxstream-java — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6978-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-3674 CVE-2020-26217 CVE-2020-26258 CVE-2020-26259 CVE-2021-21341 CVE-2021-21342 CVE-2021-21343 CVE-2021-21344  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that XStream incorrectly handled parsing of certain crafted XML documents. A remote […]

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