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How to Install Nginx on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Nginx on RHEL 8

Nginx is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy widely used in production Linux environments. On RHEL 8, Nginx is available through the AppStream repository, making installation straightforward with dnf. Once installed, you will need to configure the firewall and SELinux to allow web traffic. This tutorial walks you through a complete Nginx installation and […]

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Alpine Linux edge — live-media — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — live-media — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2022.02.07-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — live-media 2022.02.07-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-38380 CVE-2021-38381 CVE-2021-38382 CVE-2021-38383 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships live-media 2022.02.07-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-38380. Table of contents Symptom […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libldb2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libldb2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-IU-2022:632-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3670 Upstream summary: MaxQueryDuration not honoured in Samba AD DC LDAP Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage […]

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Alpine Linux edge — apk-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — apk-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2.12.6-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — apk-tools 2.12.6-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-36159 CVE-2021-30139 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships apk-tools 2.12.6-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-36159. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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FreeBSD 13 — sharutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — sharutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: sharutils — unshar insecure temporary file creation Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0990 Upstream summary: An Ubuntu Advisory reports: Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could […]

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FreeBSD 13 — vim6+ruby — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — vim6+ruby — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: vim6 — heap-based overflow while parsing shell metacharacters Related CVEs: CVE-2008-3432 Upstream summary: Description for CVE-2008-3432 says: Heap-based buffer overflow in the mch_expand_wildcards function in os_unix.c in Vim 6.2 and […]

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How to Secure MySQL on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure MySQL 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 secure mysql 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 Linux distribution. This […]

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FreeBSD 13 — apache-openoffice — multiple vulnerabilities (19 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — apache-openoffice — multiple vulnerabilities (19 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Apache OpenOffice — master password vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3575 CVE-2015-1774 CVE-2015-4551 CVE-2015-5212 CVE-2015-5213 CVE-2015-5214 CVE-2016-1513 CVE-2017-12607  +11 more Upstream summary: The Apache Openoffice project reports: Apache OpenOffice supports the storage […]

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