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A Beginner's Guide To Drush: The Drupal Shell — step-by-step CMS tutorial on Progressive Robot

A Beginner’s Guide To Drush: The Drupal Shell

Drush is a very useful tool which helps you perform various admin tasks using just one or two commands in the terminal, replacing the many clicks and page refreshes needed in the UI. This tutorial will go through some of the basic Drush commands and will work with a standard Drupal installation to illustrate them.

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Gentoo Linux — dev-python/hiredis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-python/hiredis — 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-202210-32 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32765 Upstream summary: Hiredis is vulnerable to integer overflow if provided maliciously crafted or corrupted `RESP` `mult-bulk` protocol data. When parsing `multi-bulk` (array-like) replies, hiredis fails to check if […]

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Arch Linux — ant — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — ant — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202012-5 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11979 CVE-2020-1945 CVE-2021-36374 CVE-2021-36373 Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.10.8-1. Fixed in: 1.10.9-1. Group: AVG-1312. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & […]

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FreeBSD 13 — hdf5 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — hdf5 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: hdf5 — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2016-4330 CVE-2016-4331 CVE-2016-4332 CVE-2016-4333 Upstream summary: Talos Security reports: CVE-2016-4330 (TALOS-2016-0176) – HDF5 Group libhdf5 H5T_ARRAY Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2016-4331 (TALOS-2016-0177) – HDF5 Group […]

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FreeBSD 13 — pdflib-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — pdflib-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tiff — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0803 CVE-2004-0804 CVE-2004-0886 CVE-2004-1308 CVE-2005-1544 Upstream summary: A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — evolution — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2020-1600)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-1600 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-15587 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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How to Install PHP 8.2 on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install PHP 8.2 on FreeBSD 13

Introduction This guide explains how to Install PHP 8.2 on FreeBSD 13 on FreeBSD 13. 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 privilege […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — xlockmore — 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: xlockmore — local exploit Related CVEs: CVE-2012-4524 Upstream summary: Ignatios Souvatzis of NetBSD reports: Due to an error in the dclock screensaver in xlockmore, users who explicitly use this screensaver […]

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