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FreeBSD 12 — php71-gd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php71-gd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php-gd and gd — Buffer over-read into uninitialized memory Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7890 Upstream summary: PHP developers report: The GIF decoding function gdImageCreateFromGifCtx in gd_gif_in.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform that, when combined with a time-series data source, provides powerful dashboards for Windows Server 2019 monitoring. The typical architecture uses Windows Exporter (formerly wmi_exporter) to expose Prometheus-compatible metrics from Windows Server 2019, a Prometheus server to scrape and […]

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Introduction to Kafka — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

Introduction to Kafka

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up Apache Kafka, create and delete topics, and send and receive events using the provided scripts. You’ll also learn about similar projects with the same purpose, and how Kafka compares.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — commons-beanutils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — commons-beanutils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4766-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0114 CVE-2019-10086 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Commons BeanUtils improperly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to cause a crash or […]

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How To Secure Your OrientDB Database on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Your OrientDB Database on Ubuntu 16.04

OrientDB is a multi-model, NoSQL database with support for document and graph databases. In this article, we’ll focus on securing an installation of the Community edition of OrientDB using only the resources available by default. Specifically, you’ll encrypt the OrientDB database, restrict access to the OrientDB web server and server instance, and manage OrientDB database accounts from both the web UI and console.

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How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 8

Caddy is a modern, open-source web server written in Go that automatically provisions and renews TLS certificates via Let’s Encrypt. Unlike Apache or Nginx, Caddy requires almost no manual TLS configuration, making it an excellent choice for developers who want HTTPS out of the box. On RHEL 8, Caddy is not available in the default […]

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How To Run Serverless Workloads with Knative on Kubernetes — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Run Serverless Workloads with Knative on Kubernetes

Knative is a Kubernetes-based platform that provides components to deploy and manage serverless workloads. Knative offers open-source Kubernetes integration, cloud-agnosticism, building blocks, and extensibility. In this tutorial, you will use Knative Serving to deploy a Node.js application as a serverless workload on a Kubernetes cluster.

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FreeBSD 12 — clamav — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — clamav — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: clamav — ClamAV UDF File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0270 CVE-2005-0133 CVE-2005-1922 CVE-2005-1923 CVE-2005-2919 CVE-2005-2920 CVE-2006-0162 CVE-2006-1614  +12 more Upstream summary: Cisco reports: A vulnerability in […]

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