Exploring Async/Await Functions in JavaScript
In this post we’re quickly going over the ins and outs of async/await functions; introduced with ES2017 to help write synchronous-looking code.
FreeBSD 12 — gnomevfs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 2 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gnomevfs — unsafe URI handling Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0494 Upstream summary: Alexander Larsson reports that some versions of gnome-vfs and MidnightCommander contain a number of `extfs' scripts that do not properly […]
Arch Linux — packagekit — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Arch ASA ASA-202106-18 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-16121 Upstream summary: Type: information disclosure. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.1.13-1. Fixed in: 1.2.3-1. Group: AVG-1260. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]
Ubuntu 16.04 — httpcomponents-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 2 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5239-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13956 Upstream summary: It was discovered that HttpClient mishandled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. Table […]
How To Install the Django Web Framework on Ubuntu 14.04
Django is a full-featured Python web framework for developing dynamic websites and applications. Using Django, you can quickly create Python web applications and rely on the framework to do a good deal of the heavy lifting. In this guide, we will show you how to get Django…
Oracle Linux 8 — bind — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2019-1145)
🟠 High ⏱ 15–60 min Last verified: 2 February 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read • Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2019-1145 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-5743 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]
Android ListView with Custom Adapter Example Tutorial
In this tutorial we'll use a CustomAdapter that populates the custom rows of the [Android ListView](/community/tutorials/android-listview-example-tutorial) with an ArrayList. Also to enhance the user experience, we'll animate the ListView while scrolling. Android ListView Custom Adapter Overview The simplest Adapter to populate a view from an ArrayList is the ArrayAdapter. That's what we'll implement in this […]
Ubuntu 16.04 cannot mount NTFS partition
🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 1 February 2020 📖 ~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 References & Further […]
How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for SSH on FreeBSD 12
Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up set up two-factor authentication for ssh on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from […]
FreeBSD 12 — uwsgi — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 1 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: uwsgi — a stack-based buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6758 Upstream summary: Uwsgi developers report: It was discovered that the uwsgi_expand_path function in utils.c in Unbit uWSGI, an application container server, […]
