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SLES 12 — ibus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — ibus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 July 2019 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:2387-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14822 Upstream summary: A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to […]

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How To Access System Information (Facts) in Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Access System Information (Facts) in Ansible Playbooks

By default, before starting to execute the set of tasks defined in a playbook, Ansible will take a few moments to gather information about the systems that are being provisioned. These are known as *facts*. Ansible facts contain information such as network interfaces and addresses, the operating system running on remote nodes, available memory, among other things. Learn how to access this information from your playbooks.

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Oracle Linux 8 — binutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — binutils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-4465)

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 July 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4465 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-17450 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Arch Linux — wget — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — wget — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201710-34 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-6508 CVE-2017-13090 CVE-2017-13089 Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.19.1-2. Fixed in: 1.19.2-1. Group: AVG-473. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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FreeBSD 12 — el-linux-mozillafirebird — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — el-linux-mozillafirebird — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: firefox & mozilla — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0762 CVE-2004-0765 CVE-2004-0904 CVE-2004-0905 CVE-2004-0908 CVE-2004-0909 CVE-2004-1156 CVE-2004-1157  +12 more Upstream summary: A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues: Heap […]

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How to Configure iSCSI Storage on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure iSCSI Storage on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure iSCSI Storage on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (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 15 system is up to date: zypper refresh […]

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