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How To Use Vim for Advanced Editing of Plain Text or Code on a VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Vim for Advanced Editing of Plain Text or Code on a VPS

Vim is a powerful text editor that can be used to edit both normal text documents and source code for programming. It excels at both of these tasks by being flexible and having functions that adapt well to either circumstance. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to leverage some of these functions to edit more efficiently.

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

FreeBSD 12 — libosip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 7 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: osip — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7853 Upstream summary: osip developers reports: In libosip2 in GNU oSIP 4.1.0 and 5.0.0, a […]

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FreeBSD 12 — file-roller — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — file-roller — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 7 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: file-roller — path traversal vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2016-7162 Upstream summary: reports: File Roller 3.5.4 through 3.20.2 was affected by a path traversal bug that could result in deleted files if […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — lightzone — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 7 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: dcraw — integer overflow condition Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3885 Upstream summary: ocert reports: The dcraw tool, as well as several other projects re-using its code, suffers from an integer overflow condition […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmysql56client18 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmysql56client18 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2016:2746-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-3521 CVE-2016-6662 CVE-2015-2582 CVE-2015-2611 CVE-2015-2617 CVE-2015-2641 CVE-2015-2643 CVE-2015-2648  +12 more Upstream summary: Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle MySQL 5.5.49 and earlier, 5.6.30 and earlier, and 5.7.12 […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php5-sockets — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php5-sockets — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 7 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1148 CVE-2011-1938 CVE-2011-2202 CVE-2011-2483 Upstream summary: PHP development team reports: Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.7: Updated crypt_blowfish to 1.2. (CVE-2011-2483) Fixed crash […]

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How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 16.04

Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location. Ansible is a simple configuration management system.

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