How To Install Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with rbenv
Here we’ll walk you through installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with rbenv.
FreeBSD 12 — nagios-plugins — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: nagios-plugins — Long Location Header Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2007-5198 Upstream summary: A Secunia Advisory reports: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the redir() function […]
How to Use zrepl for ZFS Replication on FreeBSD 12
Introduction This guide explains how to Use zrepl for ZFS Replication on FreeBSD 12 on FreeBSD 12. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for […]
How To Install and Configure Ghost on Ubuntu 16.04
Ghost is a light-weight open-source blogging platform. In this tutorial, you’ll set up a production-ready Ghost instance on Ubuntu 16.04 using the official `ghost-cli` installation wizard. This will install Ghost, configure Nginx to proxy requests to Ghost, secure it with a [Let’s Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/) certificate, and configure Ghost to run in the background as a system service.
openSUSE Tumbleweed — kbd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read • Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2011:007 Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0460 Upstream summary: The init script in kbd, possibly 1.14.1 and earlier, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on /dev/shm/defkeymap.map. Table of contents Symptom […]
FreeBSD 12 — ruby_r — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ruby — CGI DoS Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0983 Upstream summary: The Ruby CGI.rb module contains a bug which can cause the CGI module to go into an infinite loop, thereby causing […]
FreeBSD 12 — linux-flock — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide
🟠 High ⏱ 15–60 min Last verified: 10 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mozilla — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2007-4879 CVE-2007-5959 CVE-2008-0016 CVE-2008-0412 CVE-2008-0413 CVE-2008-0414 CVE-2008-0415 CVE-2008-0417 +12 more Upstream summary: The Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2008-37 UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow MFSA […]
Amazon Linux 2 — python-crypto — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide
🟠 High ⏱ 15–60 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2ANSIBLE2-2024-011 Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7459 CVE-2018-6594 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c in Python Cryptography Toolkit (aka pycrypto) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as […]
How To Use HTTP Requests in Flutter
Learn how to set up your Flutter apps to make HTTP requests using the flutter_http plugin.
How to Set Up Network Monitoring on Windows Server 2016
How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Network Monitoring Network monitoring is a critical component of maintaining a healthy and secure Windows Server 2016 environment. Without visibility into network traffic, bandwidth utilization, device availability, and performance metrics, administrators are essentially flying blind. Problems may go undetected until they cause outages, and capacity planning becomes guesswork. […]
