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FreeBSD 12 — helm — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — helm — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Helm — client unpacking chart that contains malicious content Upstream summary: Helm security notice A specially crafted chart may be able to unpack content into locations on the filesystem outside […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-rack — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.7-rubygem-rack — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-2019:1553-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16471 CVE-2019-16782 Upstream summary: There is a possible XSS vulnerability in Rack before 2.0.6 and 1.6.11. Carefully crafted requests can impact the data returned by […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network Controller — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network Controller

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 Network Controller Network Controller is a Software Defined Networking (SDN) component available in Windows Server 2019 Datacenter edition that provides a centralized, programmable point of automation for virtual and physical network infrastructure management. Network Controller manages Hyper-V virtual networks, software load balancers, RAS Gateways, and Network Security Groups. […]

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Alpine Linux edge — libidn — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — libidn — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.33-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libidn 1.33-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8948 CVE-2016-6261 CVE-2016-6262 CVE-2016-6263 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships libidn 1.33-r0 which addresses CVE-2015-8948. Table of contents Symptom […]

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FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-icu — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — linux-c6-icu — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: icu — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7867 CVE-2017-7868 Upstream summary: NVD reports: International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ before 2017-02-13 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — libopenmpt — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — libopenmpt — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8206-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-17113 CVE-2018-10017 CVE-2018-11710 Upstream summary: Antonio Morales Maldonado discovered that OpenMPT did not properly limit the length of strings in certain cases, leading to a buffer overflow. […]

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SLES 15 — re2c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — re2c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 November 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:3353-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-21232 Upstream summary: re2c before 2.0 has uncontrolled recursion that causes stack consumption in find_fixed_tags. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2019

How to Set Up Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) on Windows Server 2019 Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is a free update management solution from Microsoft that allows administrators to centrally manage the distribution of updates released through Microsoft Update to computers in a network. WSUS reduces internet bandwidth consumption by downloading updates once to […]

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