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SLES 15 — libtspi1 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libtspi1 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 9 May 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2022:2798-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24330 CVE-2020-24331 CVE-2020-24332 CVE-2019-18898 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in TrouSerS through 0.3.14. If the tcsd daemon is started with root privileges instead of […]

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How To Convert Data Types in Ruby — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Convert Data Types in Ruby

Ruby provides several methods for converting values from one data type to another. In this tutorial, you’ll convert strings to numbers, objects to strings, strings to arrays, and convert between strings and symbols.

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Arch Linux — jasper — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — jasper — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201612-9 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-9560 CVE-2016-9557 CVE-2016-9388 CVE-2016-9387 CVE-2016-9262 CVE-2016-8887 CVE-2016-8885 CVE-2016-8884  +9 more Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.900.1-15. Fixed in: 1.900.31-1. Group: AVG-14. Table of contents […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — rsync — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — rsync — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2025-8395)

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 May 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2025-8395 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-9840 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 Use Reliability Monitor on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Reliability Monitor on Windows Server 2016 (WINDOWS-SERVER-2016)

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 Reliability Monitor Reliability Monitor is a built-in diagnostic tool in Windows Server 2016 that presents a chronological stability index and a timeline of system events, software changes, and failures. Unlike Event Viewer, which displays raw event data, Reliability Monitor correlates events over time and assigns a Stability Index score […]

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Common Nginx Connection Errors — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

Common Nginx Connection Errors

Nginx connection errors can be difficult to debug because there are many possible causes and solutions. Moreover, there aren’t always many hints to point you in the right direction to fix the error. In this tutorial, you will learn about what a browser connection error means for your Nginx web server and the various steps you can take to identify and correct the issue to get your server back up and running.

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Debian 10: CIFS mount authentication fails with special-character credentials

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 May 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – rsyslog forwarding stops after remote TLS policy update – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 May 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 📖 ~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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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-json — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-json — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 May 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rubygem-json — Unsafe Objection Creation Vulnerability in JSON (Additional fix) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-10663 Upstream summary: When parsing certain JSON documents, the json gem (including the one bundled with Ruby) can […]

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