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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmms0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmms0 — 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-2014-2892 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the get_answer function in mmsh.c in libmms before 0.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a […]

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How to Set Up Zabbix on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Zabbix on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up Zabbix on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 12 system is up to date: zypper refresh […]

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switch it support providers without disruption a handover bridge linking two server towers

Switch IT Support Providers: 7 Proven Steps for an Easy Move

Most businesses stay with an underperforming IT partner because changing feels dangerous. It does not have to be. This guide sets out the seven steps that move a business from one support contract to another without visible downtime: deciding the move is justified, auditing the estate while the incumbent is still obliged to help, reading the exit clauses before serving notice, selecting the incoming provider on onboarding ability, running a 90-day transition with deliberate overlap, protecting security and compliance through the handover, and measuring the result at 30, 90 and 180 days.

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: amarok — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2009-0135 CVE-2009-0136 Upstream summary: Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported some vulnerabilities in Amarok, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: bitmessage — remote code execution vulnerability Upstream summary: Bitmessage developers report: A remote code execution vulnerability has been spotted in use against some users running PyBitmessage v0.6.2. The cause was […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py36-notebook — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py36-notebook — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Jupyter notebook — open redirect vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2018-8768 CVE-2019-10255 Upstream summary: Jupyter blog: Login pages tend to take a parameter for redirecting back to a page after successful login, […]

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Entendendo matrizes e fatias em Go — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

Entendendo matrizes e fatias em Go

Na linguagem Go, matrizes e fatias são estruturas de dados que consistem em uma sequência ordenada de elementos. Essas coleções de dados são ótimas para serem usadas quando você quiser trabalhar com muitos valores relacionados….

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Amazon Linux 2 — yum — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — yum — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2023-2316 Upstream summary: Amazon Linux customers may have experienced an issue with our repository metadata in all regions. During this time, EC2 instances accessing metadata from our repositories experienced 500 […]

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How to Install and Configure Maven on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Maven on Debian 9

Introduction How to Install and Configure Maven on Debian 9 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 9 Stretch server. Debian 9 Stretch ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 9. […]

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