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A patch is usually a new correction to already issued software, correcting bugs or adding features.

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We are running a bunch of containers for a cyber security teaching environment, where students can execute arbitrary commands (unprivileged). Our system (Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS) is affected by the ...
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root@hostname:~# dmesg | tail -n 200 [ 223.850430] XFS (dm-12): Unmounting Filesystem [ 247.989713] XFS (dm-12): Mounting V5 Filesystem [ 248.014825] XFS (dm-12): Ending clean mount [ 248.021340] ...
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I've subscribed to the free Ubuntu Pro service and have Livepatch running (MacBook Pro 10,1, Ubuntu 24.04). Livepatch says all good, but Settings, System, Software Updates shows stuff like kernel ...
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I am using Ubuntu 22.04 kernel 5.15.0-160. It failed to boot after installing the TBS5927 linux driver patch, but the old kernel 5.15.0-157 still works. I followed instructions on their site, but it ...
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This is the ubuntu kernel version on my machine Linux zaff 6.8.0-1021-azure #25~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 16 21:37:09 UTC 2025 x86 64 x86 64 x86 64 GNU/Linux Which version from this link will be my ...
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I have an issue with keyboard shortcuts conflict (an event is triggered upon a key press instead of release). (This is a very old issue which is common for users using 2 or more keyboard layouts). An ...
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I have almost 100 Ubuntu servers running and it's airgapped. It has different packages. Is there a way to do centralized package upgrade? Right now I am patching by opening port 80 and 443 to Ubuntu ...
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Like the title say: Does php5.6 php7.4 from ppa:ondrej/php have all and latest security patches ? I using Ubuntu 22
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I am running Ubuntu 22.04LTS on a few Virtual Machines in VMWare. I'm trying to resolve a vulnerability found with Tenable (Plugin #181178). When I download the latest version of every package from ...
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is there any reason why a LTS Ubuntu distro doesn't update the patch version of the packages? For e.g: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has libsdl2-2.30.0 now SDL2 version 2.30 is at 2.30.8 Is there any reason why ...
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Trying to look at patching this: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6478-1 Am I right in assuming this patch is only available to those with a Pro contract on the server? https://ubuntu.com/...
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So I recently saw this video talking about a vulnerability in Linux to a virus called LogoFAIL. https://youtu.be/2QFJLszvDwg?si=VN5nyFKOwqWTyIwa Does anyone know if there are any plans to patch this ...
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I am unable to patch OverlayFS vulnerability (CVE-2021-3493). They said in github that it is patched in 5.11 kernel however i have installed multiple kernels (5.11,5.15,6.2 etc) and also compiled from ...
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To my understanding, bug and vulnerability fixes are released separately in -updates and -security. 1 patch fixes CVE(s) for 1 package (no cumulative patches like in windows). There is a patch for ...
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In the CVE tracker page, what does the empty — field mean? For example, in this link: https://ubuntu.com/security/cves?q=CVE-2016-5696 Is the CVE not applicable to 20.04 LTS, or was its risk not ...
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