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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmikmod3 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmikmod3 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 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-2018:1471-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2010-2546 CVE-2009-3995 CVE-2009-3996 CVE-2007-6720 Upstream summary: Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in loaders/load_it.c in libmikmod, possibly 3.1.12, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via […]

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Debian 9 — curl — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — curl — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 June 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-1000100 CVE-2017-1000257 CVE-2017-8816 CVE-2018-1000007 CVE-2018-1000120 CVE-2018-1000301 CVE-2018-14618 CVE-2018-16839  +2 more Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – […]

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How To Configure Redis Replication on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Redis Replication on Ubuntu 16.04

Redis is an open-source key-value data store, using an in-memory storage model with optional disk writes for persistence. It features transactions, a pub/sub messaging pattern, and automatic failover among other functionality. Redis has clients written in most languages with…

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Data Types and Modifiers in C — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Data Types and Modifiers in C

Data Types in C C has various data types to store data in program. C program can store _integer, decimal number, character(alphabets), string(words or sentence), list_ etc. using various data types. We need to specify the data type of variable(identifier) to store any data in it. Explanation and basic usage of the concept is provided […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 black screen after login

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 24 June 2019 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — findutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2007-2452 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the visit_old_format function in locate/locate.c in locate in GNU findutils before 4.2.31 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute […]

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Common Problems 115437

firewalld Not Running and Ports Stay Closed

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 24 June 2019 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Step 1 — Disable Swap swapoff -a sed -i ‘/ […]

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