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FreeBSD 12 — bind96-base — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — bind96-base — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bind — denial of service vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2012-5166 CVE-2013-3919 CVE-2014-0591 CVE-2014-8500 CVE-2014-8680 Upstream summary: ISC reports: We have today posted updated versions of 9.9.6 and 9.10.1 to address a […]

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How To Use Variables and Constants in Go — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Variables and Constants in Go

Variables are an important programming concept to master. They are symbols that stand in for a value you’re using in a program. This tutorial will cover some variable basics and best practices for using them within the Go programs you create.

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How To Install Apache Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 via Apt-Get — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Apache Tomcat 7 on Ubuntu 14.04 via Apt-Get

Apache Tomcat is a web server and servlet container that is used to serve Java applications. Tomcat is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies, released by the Apache Software Foundation. This tutorial covers the basic installation and some configuration of Tomcat 7.0.x on Ubuntu 14.04.

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How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on RHEL 8

The Kubernetes Dashboard is a web-based UI that gives cluster operators a visual overview of workloads, services, namespaces, and resource utilization without dropping into kubectl for every task. On RHEL 8 with a running Kubernetes cluster, deploying the dashboard takes only a few kubectl commands. This tutorial covers installation, creating a service account with the […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mysql55-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mysql55-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 4 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: MySQL — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3194 CVE-2015-4792 CVE-2015-4802 CVE-2015-4807 CVE-2015-4815 CVE-2015-4826 CVE-2015-4830 CVE-2015-4836  +12 more Upstream summary: Oracle reports: Please reference CVE/URL list for details Not all listed CVE's […]

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Alpine Linux edge — qpdf — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — qpdf — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 7.0.0-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — qpdf 7.0.0-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9208 CVE-2017-9209 CVE-2017-9210 CVE-2017-11624 CVE-2017-11625 CVE-2017-11626 CVE-2017-11627 CVE-2017-12595  +1 more Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships qpdf 7.0.0-r0 which […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mariadb104-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mariadb104-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 4 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: MariaDB — Nullpointer dereference Related CVEs: CVE-2018-25032 CVE-2019-1543 CVE-2019-1547 CVE-2019-15601 CVE-2019-17543 CVE-2019-2730 CVE-2019-2731 CVE-2019-2737  +12 more Upstream summary: The MariaDB project reports: MariaDB Server is vulnerable to Denial of Service. […]

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How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin with Apache on a CentOS 7 Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin with Apache on a CentOS 7 Server

While many users require access to a database management system like MySQL or MariaDB, not all users feel comfortable interacting with the SQL prompt on a daily basis. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install and secure phpMyAdmin, a web management interface for MySQL and MariaDB, on a CentOS 7 server. We will leverage the Apache web server for this guide.

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