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Debian 11 — node-node-sass — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — node-node-sass — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24025 Upstream summary: Certificate validation in node-sass 2.0.0 to 4.14.1 is disabled when requesting binaries even if the user is not specifying an alternative download path. Table of […]

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Understanding Data Types in Ruby — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

Understanding Data Types in Ruby

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the most important data types native to Ruby: integers, floats, strings, symbols, arrays, and hashes. This is not an exhaustive investigation of data types, but it will help you become familiar with the options you have available to you in your programs.

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

Debian 11 — geoip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-0159 Upstream summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in the GeoIP_update_database_general function in libGeoIP/GeoIPUpdate.c in GeoIP 1.4.0 allows remote malicious update servers (possibly only update.maxmind.com) to overwrite arbitrary files via […]

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How to Set Up CircleCI Runner on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up CircleCI Runner on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up CircleCI Runner on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (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 15 system is up to date: zypper […]

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

Debian 11 — pcal — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1289 Upstream summary: Multiple buffer overflows in (1) the getline function in pcalutil.c and (2) the get_holiday function in readfile.c for pcal 4.7.1 allow remote attackers to execute […]

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Debian 11 — qpdf — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — qpdf — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2015-9252 CVE-2017-11624 CVE-2017-11625 CVE-2017-11626 CVE-2017-11627 CVE-2017-12595 CVE-2017-18183 CVE-2017-18184  +10 more Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in QPDF before 7.0.0. Endless recursion causes stack exhaustion in QPDFTokenizer::resolveLiteral() in […]

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How to Configure sysutils/check_mk_agent on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure sysutils/check_mk_agent on FreeBSD 13

Introduction Deploying configure sysutils/check_mk_agent on freebsd 13 on a FreeBSD 13 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within the standard base + […]

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