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NetBSD 9.4 — ruby-aws-sdk-s3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — ruby-aws-sdk-s3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Related CVEs: CVE-2025-14762 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged ruby{32,33,34}-aws-sdk-s3<1.208.0 for vulnerability class 'weak-cryptography'. Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14762 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis […]

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How to Set Up a VPN Server with StrongSwan IPsec on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a VPN Server with StrongSwan IPsec on RHEL 9

IPsec VPNs provide strong, standards-based encryption and are natively supported by Windows, macOS, and iOS without additional client software. StrongSwan is a full-featured IKEv2/IPsec implementation that runs well on RHEL 9. This tutorial walks you through installing StrongSwan, generating a PKI certificate chain, and configuring an IKEv2 VPN server that accepts connections from native OS […]

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Debian 13 — menu-cache — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — menu-cache — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8933 Upstream summary: Libmenu-cache 1.0.2 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (menu unavailability). Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Debian 13 — pyxdg — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — pyxdg — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2014-1624 CVE-2019-12761 Upstream summary: Race condition in the xdg.BaseDirectory.get_runtime_dir function in python-xdg 0.25 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating /tmp/pyxdg-runtime-dir-fallback-victim to point to a victim-owned […]

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Debian 13 — python-redis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — python-redis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-28858 Upstream summary: redis-py before 4.5.3 leaves a connection open after canceling an async Redis command at an inopportune time, and can send response data to the client of […]

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Debian 13 — rust-bzip2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — rust-bzip2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-22895 Upstream summary: The bzip2 crate before 0.4.4 for Rust allow attackers to cause a denial of service via a large file that triggers an integer overflow in mem.rs. […]

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Debian 13 — pygresql — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — pygresql — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2006-2314 CVE-2009-2940 Upstream summary: PostgreSQL 8.1.x before 8.1.4, 8.0.x before 8.0.8, 7.4.x before 7.4.13, 7.3.x before 7.3.15, and earlier versions allows context-dependent attackers to bypass SQL injection protection […]

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Alpine Linux 3.20 — knot-resolver — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.20 — knot-resolver — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.20 / fixed in 5.7.1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — knot-resolver 5.7.1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-50387 CVE-2023-50868 CVE-2022-40188 CVE-2020-12667 CVE-2019-19331 CVE-2019-10190 CVE-2019-10191 CVE-2018-1110 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vv3.20 ships knot-resolver 5.7.1-r0 which addresses CVE-2023-50387. […]

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How to Install Memcached on Oracle Linux 10 — step-by-step Oracle Linux 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Memcached on Oracle Linux 10

Introduction Setting up install memcached on oracle linux 10 on a Oracle Linux 10 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Install Memcached on Oracle Linux 10, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld considerations to keep in mind, and […]

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