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Hash Sum mismatch During apt update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Configure MAC Policies on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure MAC Policies on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Configure MAC Policies on FreeBSD 13 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 13 server operator. FreeBSD 13 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, […]

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

Debian 11 — etherape — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2011-3369 Upstream summary: The add_conversation function in conversations.c in EtherApe before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via […]

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Common Problems 117634

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Failed to Start Due to Broken fstab Entry

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Debian 11 — xinetd — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — xinetd — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2002-0871 CVE-2003-0211 CVE-2012-0862 CVE-2013-4342 Upstream summary: xinetd 2.3.4 leaks file descriptors for the signal pipe to services that are launched by xinetd, which could allow those services to […]

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Debian 11 — blender — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — blender — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2005-3151 CVE-2005-3302 CVE-2005-4470 CVE-2007-1253 CVE-2008-1102 CVE-2008-1103 CVE-2008-4863 CVE-2009-3850  +12 more Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in blenderplay in Blender Player 2.37a allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a […]

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Debian 11 — bzr — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — bzr — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2099 CVE-2017-14176 Upstream summary: Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the ssl.match_hostname function in Python 3.2.x, 3.3.x, and earlier, and unspecified versions of python-backports-ssl_match_hostname as used for older Python versions, […]

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Common Problems 113051

Windows Server 2016 — Offline WIM Servicing Fails to Inject Security Update CAB — Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — crash-ptdump-command — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — crash-ptdump-command — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2020:4830 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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SLES 12 — ant — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — ant — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 October 2021 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:712-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11979 CVE-2020-1945 CVE-2021-36373 CVE-2021-36374 CVE-2013-1571 CVE-2018-10886 Upstream summary: As mitigation for CVE-2020-1945 Apache Ant 1.10.8 changed the permissions of temporary files it created so that […]

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