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How to Manage Users and Groups on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Users and Groups on FreeBSD 12

Introduction Deploying manage users and groups on freebsd 12 on a FreeBSD 12 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within the standard […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — procps-ng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — procps-ng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2018-1031 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1124 CVE-2018-1126 CVE-2018-1122 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows leading to heap corruption flaws were discovered in file2strvec(). These vulnerabilities can lead to privilege escalation for a local […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — suphp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 12 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: suPHP — Privilege escalation Related CVEs: CVE-2008-1614 Upstream summary: suPHP developer Sebastian Marsching reports: When the suPHP_PHPPath was set, mod_suphp would use the specified PHP executable to pretty-print PHP source […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — mod_frontpage — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 12 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: frontpage — cross site scripting vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2006-0015 Upstream summary: Esteban Martinez Fayo reports: The FrontPage Server Extensions 2002 (included in Windows Sever 2003 IIS 6.0 and available as […]

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How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on CentOS 7

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 the latest release of Tomcat 8 on your CentOS 7 server.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — gosa — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — gosa — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 12 August 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4609-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000528 CVE-2019-11187 CVE-2019-14466 Upstream summary: Fabian Henneke discovered that GOsa incorrectly handled client cookies. An authenticated user could exploit this with a crafted cookie to perform file […]

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Gentoo Linux — mail-mta/netqmail — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — mail-mta/netqmail — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-202007-01 Related CVEs: CVE-2005-1513 CVE-2005-1514 CVE-2005-1515 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in netqmail. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — python-pip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — python-pip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-1916)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 12 August 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-1916 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11324 CVE-2018-20060 CVE-2019-11236 CVE-2018-18074 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches […]

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