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Ubuntu 16.04 — gcab — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — gcab — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3546-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-5345 Upstream summary: Richard Hughes discovered that gcab incorrectly handled certain malformed cabinet files. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted […]

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How To Deploy an Express Application and Scale with MemCachier on an app platform — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Deploy an Express Application and Scale with MemCachier on an app platform

In this tutorial, you’ll deploy an Express application to an app platform and then scale it by adding caching with the MemCachier Add-On. You’ll build a sample Express app and implement several caching strategies. You’ll push your app’s code to GitHub and deploy it on App Platform. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to deploy an Express application to App Platform, implementing techniques for caching resource-intensive computations, rendered views, and sessions.

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~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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How to Use Azure Monitor with Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Azure Monitor with Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Azure Monitor for Windows Server 2019 Azure Monitor is Microsoft’s comprehensive monitoring service that collects, analyzes, and acts on telemetry data from Azure resources, on-premises servers, and hybrid environments. For Windows Server 2019 machines — whether on-premises, in Azure, or in other clouds — Azure Monitor can collect performance metrics, Windows Event Logs, […]

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How To Add Charts to SolidJS Using ApexCharts — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add Charts to SolidJS Using ApexCharts

Visualizing data provides an intuitive way for users to know what is happening in the system of their web applications. In this tutorial, you will integrate ApexCharts into a SolidJS application for data visualization. You will develop an application that pulls weather data from the OpenWeatherMap API and displays it in a bar chart.

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How to Set Up Automatic SSH Login Banners on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Automatic SSH Login Banners on RHEL 8

Login banners are a critical security control that display legal warnings before and after users authenticate to a system. On RHEL 8, three separate mechanisms control banner messages: /etc/issue for local console pre-login text, /etc/issue.net for SSH pre-login banners, and /etc/motd for the message of the day shown after login. Properly configured banners inform authorized […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — elfutils — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — elfutils — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6322-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16062 CVE-2018-16403 CVE-2018-18310 CVE-2018-18520 CVE-2018-18521 CVE-2019-7149 CVE-2019-7150 CVE-2019-7665  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that elfutils incorrectly handled certain malformed files. If a user or automated […]

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Alpine Linux edge — quagga — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — quagga — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.1.1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — quagga 1.1.1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-5495 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships quagga 1.1.1-r0 which addresses CVE-2017-5495. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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