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Windows Server 2019 – Windows Defender false positive blocking app – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 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 […]

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Alpine Linux edge — libmad — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libmad — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 0.15.1b-r9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libmad 0.15.1b-r9 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8372 CVE-2017-8373 CVE-2017-8374 CVE-2017-11552 CVE-2018-7263 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships libmad 0.15.1b-r9 which addresses CVE-2017-8372. Table of contents […]

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How to Configure Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on RHEL 8

Nginx server blocks — equivalent to Apache’s virtual hosts — allow a single Nginx instance to serve multiple websites from one server. Each server block defines a distinct configuration scope that responds to specific domain names or IP addresses. On RHEL 8, additional server block configuration files are stored under /etc/nginx/conf.d/ and automatically loaded by […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-ruby/ruby-openid — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-ruby/ruby-openid — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202003-09 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11027 Upstream summary: It was discovered that OpenID library for Ruby performed discovery first, and then verification. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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FreeBSD 12 — fspd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — fspd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: fsp buffer overflow and directory traversal vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2003-1022 CVE-2004-0011 Upstream summary: The Debian security team reported a pair of vulnerabilities in fsp: A vulnerability was discovered in fsp, […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — freeimage — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — freeimage — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6586-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12211 CVE-2019-12213 CVE-2020-21427 CVE-2020-21428 CVE-2020-22524 Upstream summary: It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted TIFF […]

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How To Install Git on a CentOS 6.4 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Git on a CentOS 6.4 VPS

Git is a distributed version control system that can be used to manage project files and source code for any site or application. This guide will cover how to install git from the CentOS repositories, or from source.

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