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openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-security — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-security — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3700 Upstream summary: yast2-security didn't use secure defaults to protect passwords. This became a problem on 2019-10-07 when configuration files that set secure settings were […]

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How to Monitor ZFS Pool Health on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor ZFS Pool Health on FreeBSD 12

Introduction This guide explains how to Monitor ZFS Pool Health 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 fine-grained […]

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How to Configure Network Load Balancing on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network Load Balancing on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Network Load Balancing on Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Load Balancing (NLB) distributes incoming TCP/IP traffic across multiple servers in a cluster, providing both scalability and fault tolerance for stateless services such as web servers, terminal servers, and VPN endpoints. Unlike Failover Clustering, which is designed for stateful services with shared storage, […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php72-exif — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php72-exif — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: PHP — Multiple vulnerabilities in EXIF module Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11034 CVE-2019-11035 Upstream summary: The PHP project reports: Heap-buffer-overflow in php_ifd_get32s (CVE-2019-11034) Heap-buffer-overflow in exif_iif_add_value (CVE-2019-11035) Table of contents Symptom & […]

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QR Code Scanner - Barcode Scanner for Android — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

QR Code Scanner – Barcode Scanner for Android

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/qr-code-barcode-scanner-android/ QR Code scanner or Barcode scanner for android features are present in many apps to read some useful data. In this tutorial, we'll be discussing and implementing the Barcode API present in the Google Mobile Vision API. To know the implementation of Face Detection using the Vision API refer [here](/community/tutorials/android-face-detection). Barcode Scanner for […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — pyxdg — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — pyxdg — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4700-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12761 Upstream summary: Alexandre D'Hondt discovered that PyXDG did not properly sanitize input. An attacker could exploit this with a crafted .menu file to execute arbitrary code. […]

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How to Set Up FTP Server with vsftpd on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up FTP Server with vsftpd on Debian 9

Introduction Deploying set up ftp server with vsftpd on debian 9 on a Debian 9 Stretch machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites […]

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