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Repository URLs Return 404 During apt update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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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How to Configure SMB File Shares and NTFS Permissions on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SMB File Shares and NTFS Permissions on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to SMB File Shares and NTFS Permissions on Windows Server 2019 SMB (Server Message Block) file sharing is the foundation of Windows file services. Windows Server 2019 uses SMB 3.1.1 — the latest protocol version — which includes AES-128-GCM encryption, pre-authentication integrity checking, and improved performance. Combined with NTFS permissions (the access control system […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-mysql-connector-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-mysql-connector-python — 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-2016-5598 Upstream summary: Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Connector component 2.1.3 and earlier and 2.0.4 and earlier in Oracle MySQL allows remote attackers to affect […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: phpsysinfo — url Cross-Site Scripting Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0869 CVE-2005-0870 Upstream summary: Doz reports: A Input passed in the URL to index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rsnapshot — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rsnapshot — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rsnapshot — local privilege escalation Related CVEs: CVE-2005-1064 Upstream summary: An rsnapshot Advisory reports: The copy_symlink() subroutine in rsnapshot incorrectly changes file ownership on the files pointed to by symlinks, […]

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How to Configure Network QoS with tc on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network QoS with tc on RHEL 7

How to Configure Network QoS with tc on RHEL 7 Quality of Service (QoS) is the practice of managing network traffic to ensure that critical applications receive the bandwidth and latency guarantees they need. Linux provides a sophisticated traffic control subsystem accessible through the tc (traffic control) command, part of the iproute2 package. With tc, […]

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FreeBSD 12 — apache_fp — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — apache_fp — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: apache — Prevent chunk-size integer overflow on platforms where sizeof(int) < sizeof(long) Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2088 CVE-2005-3352 CVE-2006-3747 Upstream summary: Apache ChangeLog reports: Integer overflow in the ap_proxy_send_fb function in proxy/proxy_util.c […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 3.12.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — cfengine 3.12.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9929 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships cfengine 3.12.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2019-9929. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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FreeBSD 12 — XFree86-Server — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — XFree86-Server — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: X11 server — pixmap allocation vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0083 CVE-2004-0084 CVE-2004-0106 CVE-2005-2495 Upstream summary: Allocating large pixmaps by a client can trigger an integer overflow in the X server, potentially […]

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