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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libuser — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libuser — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory Related CVEs: CVE-2012-5644 CVE-2012-5630 Upstream summary: libuser has information disclosure when moving user's home directory Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis […]

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How to Configure ModSecurity WAF with Apache2 on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure ModSecurity WAF with Apache2 on Debian 10

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure ModSecurity WAF with Apache2 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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How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use HAProxy to Set Up MySQL Load Balancing

HAProxy is an open source software which can load balance HTTP and TCP servers. In the previous article on HAProxy we configured load balancing for HTTP and in this one we’ll do the same for MySQL. All your MySQL servers have to be configured to perform Master-Master replication as load balancing involves both reading and writing to all the backends.

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How To Set Up mod_rewrite for Apache on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up mod_rewrite for Apache on CentOS 7

Apache is a modular web server that allows you to customize its capabilities by enabling and disabling modules. This provides administrators the ability to tailor the functionality of Apache to meet the needs of their web application.

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How To Install Wordpress with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install WordPress with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04

Wordpress is a free and open source website and blogging tool that uses php and MySQL. It was created in 2003 and has since then expanded to manage 22% of all the new websites created and has over 20,000 plugins to customize its functionality. This tutorial shows how to install Wordpress on a server with LEMP (with nginx instead of apache). It is written for Ubuntu 12.04.

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Gentoo Linux — app-shells/bash — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — app-shells/bash — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202105-34 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18276 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bash incorrectly dropped privileges by setting its effective UID to its real UID. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MariaDB on Ubuntu 18.04

MariaDB is an open-source database management system, commonly used as an alternative for the MySQL portion of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) stack. It is intended to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. This tutorial will explain how to install MariaDB on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, and verify that it is running and has a safe initial configuration.

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