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openSUSE Tumbleweed — unixODBC — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — unixODBC — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1145 Upstream summary: The SQLDriverConnect() function in unixODBC before 2.2.14p2 have a possible buffer overflow condition when specifying a large value for SAVEFILE parameter in […]

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Gentoo Linux — net-misc/tigervnc — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — net-misc/tigervnc — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202407-14 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-15691 CVE-2019-15692 CVE-2019-15694 CVE-2019-15695 CVE-2020-26117 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in TigerVNC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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Как установить Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) в Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Как установить Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP) в Ubuntu 16.04

Стек LEMP представляет собой набор программного обеспечения, который используется для отображения динамических веб-страниц и веб-приложений. Этот акроним обозначает операционную систему Linux и веб-сервер Nginx. Данные при этом хранятся в базе данных MySQL, а динамическое…

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How to Install VictoriaMetrics on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install VictoriaMetrics 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 install victoriametrics 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 any Linux distribution. This […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — obs-service-source_validator — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — obs-service-source_validator — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2017:3259-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9274 Upstream summary: A shell command injection in the obs-service-source_validator before 0.7 could be used to execute code as the packager when checking RPM SPEC […]

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Arch Linux — libplist — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — libplist — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201705-18 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-6440 CVE-2017-6439 CVE-2017-6438 CVE-2017-6437 CVE-2017-6436 CVE-2017-6435 CVE-2017-5836 CVE-2017-5835  +3 more Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.12-6. Fixed in: 2.0.0-1. Group: AVG-215. Table of contents […]

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FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-flac — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-flac — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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: flac — Multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2014-8962 CVE-2014-9028 Upstream summary: Erik de Castro Lopo reports: Google Security Team member, Michele Spagnuolo, recently found two potential problems in the FLAC code […]

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How to Configure Database Backups with Automysqlbackup on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Database Backups with Automysqlbackup on Debian 10

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure Database Backups with Automysqlbackup on Debian 10 on Debian 10 Buster. Debian Buster uses systemd for service management, nftables as the underlying packet filter (with ufw or iptables front-ends still available), and AppArmor for mandatory access control. Every command is designed for a minimal Debian 10 install with […]

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