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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mupdf — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6265 CVE-2016-6525 Upstream summary: Tobias Kortkamp reports: Heap-based buffer overflow in the pdf_load_mesh_params function in pdf/pdf-shade.c in MuPDF allows remote attackers to cause a […]

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How to Install CouchDB on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install CouchDB on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Install CouchDB on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, and […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — calamares — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:2628-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-13178 Upstream summary: modules/luksbootkeyfile/main.py in Calamares versions 3.1 through 3.2.10 has a race condition between the time when the LUKS encryption keyfile is created and […]

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FreeBSD 12 — h2o — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — h2o — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: h2o — HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5638 CVE-2016-1133 CVE-2016-4864 CVE-2017-10868 CVE-2017-10869 CVE-2018-0608 CVE-2019-9512 CVE-2019-9514  +3 more Upstream summary: Kazuo Okuhu reports: H2O is vulnerable to the HTTP/2 […]

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Auflisten und Löschen von iptables-Firewall-Regeln — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

Auflisten und Löschen von iptables-Firewall-Regeln

Iptables ist eine Firewall-Technologie, die in vielen Linux-Systemen eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Netzwerksicherheit spielt. In diesem Tutorial erläutern wir die Verwendung der folgenden iptables-Aufgaben: Regeln auflisten, Paket- und Byte-Zähler löschen, Regeln löschen, Ketten leeren (alle Regeln in einer Kette löschen) und iptables-Firewall vollständig zurücksetzen.

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How To Implement JavaScript Array Methods From Scratch — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Implement JavaScript Array Methods From Scratch

JavaScript includes several functions for working with arrays that go beyond the `for` loop. You may have used these functions in your own projects and wondered how they work and why you’d use one over another. There’s no better way to ensure that you understand how something works than building your own version from scratch. In this article you are going to do just that by creating your own versions of `map`, `reduce`, `sort`, and `filter` from scratch.

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