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FreeBSD 12 — ppxp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ppxp — 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: ppxp — local root exploit Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0392 Upstream summary: A Debian Advisory reports: Jens Steube discovered that ppxp, yet another PPP program, does not release root privileges when opening […]

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Android Face Detection — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Android Face Detection

With the release of Google Play services 7.8, Google has brought in the Mobile Vision API that lets you do Face Detection, Barcode Detection and Text Detection. In this tutorial, we'll develop an android face detection application that lets you do detect human faces in an image. Android Face Detection Android Face detection API tracks […]

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Common Problems 118484

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS cron jobs not executing after timezone change

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 May 2026 Affected versions: 16.04 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-rack — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-rack — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:1553-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16471 CVE-2019-16782 Upstream summary: There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rack before 2.0.6 and 1.6.11. Carefully crafted requests can impact the data returned by […]

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Alpine Linux edge — libidn — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libidn — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.33-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libidn 1.33-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8948 CVE-2016-6261 CVE-2016-6262 CVE-2016-6263 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships libidn 1.33-r0 which addresses CVE-2015-8948. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Common Problems 117945

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – SSH login rejected despite correct credentials

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 May 2026 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 18.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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