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SLES 12 — python-M2Crypto — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — python-M2Crypto — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 5 June 2021 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-FU-2024:1448-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25657 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in all released versions of m2crypto, where they are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher timing attacks in the RSA decryption […]

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How To Set Up and Configure a Certificate Authority (CA) On Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up and Configure a Certificate Authority (CA) On Ubuntu 20.04

A private Certificate Authority that runs on Ubuntu 20.04 will enable you to configure, test, and run programs that require encrypted connections between a client and a server. Using a private CA, you can issue certificates for users, servers, or individual programs and services within your infrastructure. A private CA can help ensure that all your development, staging, and production environments use similar architectures and configurations.

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

How to Install Composer on RHEL 7

How to Install Composer on RHEL 7 Composer is the standard dependency manager for PHP, used by virtually every modern PHP framework and library ecosystem. It reads a composer.json file in your project to resolve and download the exact library versions your application requires, storing them in a vendor/ directory and generating an autoloader that […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — kernel — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — kernel — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2021-2168)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 4 June 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-2168 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3543 CVE-2021-3501 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – TLS connections fail due to outdated CA certificates

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 June 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04.7 📖 ~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 […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS sudo Fails With PAM Authentication Error

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 June 2021 Affected versions: 20.04 LTS 📖 ~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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How to Set Up Log Rotation on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Log Rotation on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up Log Rotation on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 12 system is up to date: zypper […]

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Windows Server 2019 NVMe Driver Mismatch Throttles Throughput After Patching – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 June 2021 Affected versions: Windows Server 2019 📖 ~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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What's New in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

What’s New in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver

The Ubuntu operating system’s most recent Long Term Support (LTS) release, version 18.04 (Bionic Beaver), was released on April 26, 2018. This guide is intended as a brief overview of new features and significant changes to Ubuntu Server since the previous LTS release, 16.04.

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