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FreeBSD 12 — dircproxy-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — dircproxy-devel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 May 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: dircproxy — remote denial of service Related CVEs: CVE-2007-5226 Upstream summary: Securiweb reports: dircproxy allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an ACTION command without […]

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How to Set Up borgbackup on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up borgbackup on Debian 10

Introduction How to Set Up borgbackup on Debian 10 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 10 Buster server. Debian 10 Buster ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 10. This […]

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How To Use Templates in Go — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Templates in Go

Do you need to present some data in well-formatted output, textual reports, or HTML pages? You can do that with Go templates. Any Go program can use the `text/template` or `html/template` package—both included in the Go standard library—to present data neatly. This tutorial will show you how to use both template packages.

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How To Configure Periodic TRIM for SSD Storage on Linux Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Periodic TRIM for SSD Storage on Linux Servers

Continuous use of SSDs results in degraded performance if not accounted for and mitigated. The TRIM command is an operation that allows the operating system to propagate information down to the SSD about which blocks of data are no longer in use. This allows the SSD’s internal systems to better manage wear leveling and prepare the device for future writes. Continuous TRIM is possible, but can negatively impact performance. Scheduled, periodic TRIM is a good alternative in most cases.

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SLES 15 — python2-ecdsa — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — python2-ecdsa — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 8 May 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2019:744-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14853 CVE-2019-14859 Upstream summary: An error-handling flaw was found in python-ecdsa before version 0.13.3. During signature decoding, malformed DER signatures could raise unexpected exceptions (or […]

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How to Install ClamAV Antivirus on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install ClamAV Antivirus on RHEL 7

How to Install ClamAV Antivirus on RHEL 7 ClamAV is the leading open-source antivirus engine used on Linux servers, primarily for scanning files shared with Windows clients, email attachments passing through mail gateways, and uploaded content on web servers. While RHEL 7 itself is rarely the target of self-propagating malware, compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS, […]

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Debian 10: APT GPG signature verification failures

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 7 May 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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 & […]

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