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How To Write a Simple Shell Script on a VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Write a Simple Shell Script on a VPS

This tutorial is aimed at teaching you how to write shell scripts for the most variety of purposes. Shell scripts can be used to run multiple commands, a single command with difficult and extensive arguments, or more user friendly interfaces for distributing your work.

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How To Set Up Python 2.7.6 and 3.3.3 on CentOS 6.4 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Python 2.7.6 and 3.3.3 on CentOS 6.4

In this the cloud provider article, we are going to talk about downloading and setting up Python (versions 2.7.6 and 3.3.3) without breaking the system’s default 2.6 (or 2.4 depending on CentOS distribution) and without breaking critical system tools such as YUM which depend on the system’s default. Furthermore, we continue with setting up two popular must-have Python tools: pip and virtualenv.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — bsdiff — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — bsdiff — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2022:3094-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-9862 Upstream summary: Integer signedness error in bspatch.c in bspatch in bsdiff, as used in Apple OS X before 10.11.6 and other products, allows remote […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ja-uim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ja-uim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: uim — privilege escalation vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0503 Upstream summary: The uim developers reports: Masanari Yamamoto discovered that incorrect use of environment variables in uim. This bug causes privilege escalation […]

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How to Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx as a Reverse Proxy on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure nginx as a reverse proxy on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from […]

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SLES 15 — libdmx1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libdmx1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1992 Upstream summary: Multiple integer overflows in X.org libdmx 1.1.2 and earlier allow X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python311-lmdb — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python311-lmdb — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16224 CVE-2019-16225 CVE-2019-16227 CVE-2019-16226 CVE-2019-16228 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in py-lmdb 0.97. For certain values of md_flags, mdb_node_add does not properly set up […]

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Установка веб-фреймворка Django в Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Установка веб-фреймворка Django в Ubuntu 18.04

Django — это полноценный веб-фреймворк, написанный на Python и предназначенный для разработки динамических веб-сайтов и приложений. Используя Django, вы сможете быстро создать веб-приложения на Python и выполнить большую часть сложной работы с…

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 9 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xorg — protocol handling issues in X Window System client libraries Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1981 CVE-2013-1982 CVE-2013-1983 CVE-2013-1984 CVE-2013-1985 CVE-2013-1986 CVE-2013-1987 CVE-2013-1988  +12 more Upstream summary: freedesktop.org reports: Ilja van Sprundel, […]

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How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a SSL Certificate on Apache for Ubuntu 12.04

This tutorial explains how to create a self-signed SSL certificate, how to add it to your server, and how to configure the SSL file to display the certificate to the world. A SSL certificate is a way to encrypt a site’s information and create a more secure connection. Certificate Authorities can issue SSL certificates that verify the server’s details while a self-signed certificate has no 3rd party corroboration. This tutorial is written for Apache on an Ubuntu server.

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