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How to Set Up Nexus Repository Manager on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Nexus Repository Manager on FreeBSD 13

Introduction FreeBSD 13 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up set up nexus repository manager on freebsd 13 on FreeBSD 13 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 […]

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Debian 11 — pwgen — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — pwgen — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) đź“– ~4 min read  â€˘  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4440 CVE-2013-4441 CVE-2013-4442 Upstream summary: Password Generator (aka Pwgen) before 2.07 generates weak non-tty passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to guess the password via a […]

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Debian 11 — mpg321 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — mpg321 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) đź“– ~4 min read  â€˘  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0969 CVE-2017-11552 CVE-2019-14247 Upstream summary: mpg321 0.2.10 allows remote attackers to overwrite memory and possibly execute arbitrary code via an mp3 file that passes certain strings to the […]

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Debian 11 — yadm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — yadm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) đź“– ~4 min read  â€˘  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-11353 Upstream summary: yadm (yet another dotfile manager) 1.10.0 has a race condition (related to the behavior of git commands in setting permissions for new files and directories), […]

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Debian 11 — x11-xkb-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — x11-xkb-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) đź“– ~4 min read  â€˘  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15853 CVE-2018-15859 CVE-2018-15861 CVE-2018-15863 Upstream summary: Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users […]

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How to Back Up and Restore MySQL Databases with mysqldump on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Back Up and Restore MySQL Databases with mysqldump on RHEL 8

Regular database backups are one of the most important operational habits for any MySQL deployment, and RHEL 8 provides all the tools you need to implement a solid backup strategy. mysqldump produces portable SQL dumps that are easy to restore and inspect, while mysqlpump adds parallelism for faster exports on larger datasets. This tutorial covers […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — blktrace — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — blktrace — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 đź“– ~4 min read  â€˘  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2019:3634 Upstream summary: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — gnome-tweaks — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — gnome-tweaks — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 đź“– ~4 min read  â€˘  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2020:1766 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20337 CVE-2019-12447 CVE-2019-12448 CVE-2019-12449 CVE-2019-3825 Upstream summary: GNOME is the default desktop environment of AlmaLinux. Security Fix(es): * LibRaw: stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_makernote function of dcraw_common.cpp (CVE-2018-20337) […]

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