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Ubuntu 16.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5102-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3902 CVE-2018-17983 Upstream summary: USN-5102-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mercurial. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2008:011 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2008-1372 CVE-2010-0405 CVE-2019-12900 CVE-2016-3189 Upstream summary: bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted […]

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SLES 15 — librrd8 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — librrd8 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 September 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:0103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2131 Upstream summary: Format string vulnerability in the rrdtool module 1.4.7 for Python, as used in Zenoss, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of […]

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Gentoo Linux — net-misc/ssvnc — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — net-misc/ssvnc — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202006-06 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20020 CVE-2018-20021 CVE-2018-20022 CVE-2018-20024 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ssvnc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How To Create Your First Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Electron on macOS — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create Your First Cross-Platform Desktop Application with Electron on macOS

Electron is an open source framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. In this tutorial, you’ll first set up a project and install Electron. After that you’ll create your first hello world application using Electron and customize it. You’ll implement graceful window setup and create new windows for the application. After following all of these steps, you will have an Electron cross-platform desktop application on macOS.

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

FreeBSD 12 — opera — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: opera — moderately severe issue Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0411 CVE-2004-0717 CVE-2004-0718 CVE-2004-0721 CVE-2004-1156 CVE-2004-1157 CVE-2004-1158 CVE-2004-1160  +12 more Upstream summary: Opera reports: Fixed a moderately severe issue, as reported by Attila […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libraw15 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libraw15 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:2300-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8367 CVE-2013-2126 CVE-2013-2127 Upstream summary: The phase_one_correct function in Libraw before 0.17.1 allows attackers to cause memory errors and possibly execute arbitrary code, related to […]

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How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8

Logrotate is the standard log rotation utility on RHEL 8, responsible for automatically compressing, archiving, and pruning log files before they consume excessive disk space. Without it, long-running applications like NGINX, custom services, and Java applications can silently fill a filesystem partition and cause outages. Logrotate ships with RHEL 8 and is already configured for […]

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