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Debian 10: kubelet not starting due to cgroup driver mismatch

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 11 February 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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FreeBSD 12 — postfix-current — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — postfix-current — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Postfix — memory corruption vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0411 CVE-2011-1720 Upstream summary: The Postfix SMTP server has a memory corruption error, when the Cyrus SASL library is used with authentication mechanisms […]

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How to Install Redis on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Redis on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Install Redis on SLES 12 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 — Install Redis zypper install -y redis Step 2 — Enable […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ja-groff — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ja-groff — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: groff — pic2graph and eqn2graph are vulnerable to symlink attack through temporary files Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0969 CVE-2004-1296 Upstream summary: The eqn2graph and pic2graph scripts in groff 1.18.1 allow local users […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — thunderbird — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — thunderbird — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 11 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4421-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-12398 CVE-2020-12399 CVE-2020-12405 CVE-2020-12406 CVE-2020-12410 CVE-2020-12417 CVE-2020-12418 CVE-2020-12419  +12 more Upstream summary: Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening […]

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Alpine Linux edge — gvfs — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — gvfs — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.40.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — gvfs 1.40.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12795 CVE-2019-12449 CVE-2019-12447 CVE-2019-12448 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships gvfs 1.40.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2019-12795. Table of contents Symptom […]

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How to Set Up Consul on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Consul on Debian 10

Introduction How to Set Up Consul on Debian 10 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 10 Buster server. Debian 10 Buster ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 10. This […]

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Windows Server 2012 R2 — Boot fails after pending updates remain in servicing state — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 11 February 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~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 […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — aria2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — aria2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4869-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3500 Upstream summary: It was discovered that aria2 could accidentally leak authentication data. An attacker could possibly use this to gain access to sensitive information. Table of […]

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How To Use Interfaces in Go — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Interfaces in Go

In this article, we will learn how to compose custom types that have common behaviors, which will allow us to reuse our code. You’ll also learn how to implement interfaces for your own custom types that will satisfy interfaces defined from another package.

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