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openSUSE Tumbleweed — rdesktop — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rdesktop — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • March 24, 2020
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🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:2135-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20174 CVE-2018-20175 CVE-2018-20176 CVE-2018-20177 CVE-2018-20178 CVE-2018-20179 CVE-2018-20180 CVE-2018-20181  +12 more Upstream summary: rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in the […]

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SLES 12 — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

  • March 24, 2020
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🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2020 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2020:2966-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16707 Upstream summary: Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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SLES 12 — dia — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — dia — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • March 24, 2020
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 March 2020 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2008-5984 CVE-2019-19451 Upstream summary: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python plugin in Dia 0.96.1, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary […]

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Debian 10 – cloud-init Datasource Timeout Delays Boot – Fast Metadata Recovery

  • March 23, 2020
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 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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How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads on SLES 12. SLES 12 (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. Step 1 — Configure SLES for SAP zypper install -y patterns-sap-hana Step […]

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Common Problems 118576

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – SSH public key authentication fails

  • March 23, 2020
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🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04.7 📖 ~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 […]

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FreeBSD 12 — upp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — upp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

  • March 23, 2020
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🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: SQLite — Corrupt DB can cause a NULL pointer dereference Related CVEs: CVE-2018-8740 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: SQLite databases whose schema is corrupted using a CREATE TABLE AS statement could […]

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Common Problems 117995

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – GRUB prompt appears after kernel update

  • March 23, 2020
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🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 18.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libevent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libevent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

  • March 23, 2020
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:1283-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-6272 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in the evbuffer API in Libevent 1.4.x before 1.4.15, 2.0.x before 2.0.22, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5-beta allow context-dependent attackers […]

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