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Ubuntu 14.04 — paramiko — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — paramiko — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3796-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000805 CVE-2018-7750 Upstream summary: Daniel Hoffman discovered that Paramiko incorrectly handled authentication when being used as a server. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass […]

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How to Set a Hostname and FQDN on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set a Hostname and FQDN on RHEL 7

How to Set a Hostname and FQDN on RHEL 7 A properly configured hostname is one of the most fundamental aspects of Linux system administration. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the hostname identifies your machine on the network and appears in log files, shell prompts, and monitoring tools. Getting it right — including the […]

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Gentoo Linux — media-libs/faac — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — media-libs/faac — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202208-16 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19886 Upstream summary: An invalid pointer can be dereferenced in the huffcode function of libfaac/huff2.c, leading to a crash. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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SLES 12 — file — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — file — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 22 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2020:177-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18218 CVE-2012-1571 CVE-2014-3710 CVE-2014-8116 CVE-2014-8117 CVE-2019-8905 CVE-2019-8906 CVE-2019-8907  +4 more Upstream summary: cdf_read_property_info in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — xen-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: xen-tools — xenstore denial of service via repeated update Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3672 CVE-2015-2152 CVE-2015-2752 CVE-2015-2756 CVE-2015-3209 CVE-2015-3259 CVE-2015-3456 CVE-2015-4103  +12 more Upstream summary: The Xen Project reports: Unprivileged guests may […]

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Download Selenium JARs and Configure in Eclipse — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Download Selenium JARs and Configure in Eclipse

Selenium provides its API implementation in multiple programming languages. However, Selenium API Java-based bindings are the most popular. In this tutorial, we will learn how to download Selenium JARs and configure Eclipse IDE to use them in writing test scripts. To configure Eclipse with Selenium WebDriver, we need to perform the following activities: Installing Java […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ossec-hids-local — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ossec-hids-local — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: security/ossec-hids-* — root escalation via syscheck feature Related CVEs: CVE-2014-5284 CVE-2015-3222 Upstream summary: OSSEC reports: The CVE-2015-3222 vulnerability, which allows for root escalation via sys check has been fixed in […]

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How to Deploy a CakePHP Application on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a CakePHP Application on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Deploy a CakePHP Application 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. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 12 system is up to date: zypper […]

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