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FreeBSD 12 — krb5-appl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — krb5-appl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: krb5-appl — telnetd code execution vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4862 Upstream summary: The MIT Kerberos Team reports: When an encryption key is supplied via the TELNET protocol, its length is not […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — lame — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — lame — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — 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-2018:0543-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9410 CVE-2017-9411 CVE-2017-9412 Upstream summary: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2015-9101. Reason: This candidate is a duplicate of CVE-2015-9101. Notes: All CVE users […]

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How To Set Up the code-server Cloud IDE Platform on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up the code-server Cloud IDE Platform on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, you will set up the code-server cloud IDE platform on your CentOS 7 machine and expose it at your domain, secured with free Let’s EncryptTLS certificates. In the end, you’ll have Microsoft Visual Studio Code running on your CentOS 7 server, available at your domain and protected with a password.

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

FreeBSD 12 — sharutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: sharutils — unshar insecure temporary file creation Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0990 Upstream summary: An Ubuntu Advisory reports: Joey Hess discovered that "unshar" created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — icedtea-web — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — icedtea-web — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:1911-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-10181 CVE-2019-10185 CVE-2019-10182 Upstream summary: It was found that in icedtea-web up to and including 1.7.2 and 1.8.2 executable code could be injected in a […]

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How to Set Up SQL Server Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up SQL Server Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up SQL Server Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2 Monitoring SQL Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 requires a multi-layered approach that covers both OS-level performance (CPU, memory, disk I/O) and SQL Server-specific metrics (wait statistics, query performance, blocking, index fragmentation, database file sizes, and backup status). This guide covers setting up […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — influxdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — influxdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 November 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5451-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-20933 Upstream summary: Ilya Averyanov discovered that an InfluxDB vulnerability allowed attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to any known database user. Table of contents Symptom […]

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How To Install and Use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server

Tracking statistics is a great way to make informed decisions about your systems, servers, and applications. Graphite is a graphing library that can be used to render customized graphs for any kind of data that is send to it. In this guide, we’ll talk about how to install and use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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