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FreeBSD 12 — jruby — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — jruby — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Multiple implementations — DoS via hash algorithm collision Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4815 CVE-2011-4838 CVE-2011-5036 CVE-2011-5037 Upstream summary: oCERT reports: A variety of programming languages suffer from a denial-of-service (DoS) condition against […]

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How to Manage Service Accounts in Active Directory on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Service Accounts in Active Directory on Windows Server 2016

How to Set Up Windows Server 2016 Service Accounts Service accounts in Windows Server 2016 are special user accounts used by applications and services to authenticate and run system processes. Unlike regular user accounts, service accounts are designed to run background services, scheduled tasks, and application pools with defined, limited privileges. Properly configuring service accounts […]

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Debian 9 — librelp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — librelp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 July 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000140 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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Java SE 8 Interview Questions and Answers (Part-2) — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

Java SE 8 Interview Questions and Answers (Part-2)

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/javase8-interview-questions-part2/ In my previous post, I have discussed some important Java SE 8 Interview Questions and Answers. In this post, we are going to discuss some more Java SE 8 Interview Questions and Answers. Before reading this post, please go through my previous post at: "[Java SE 8 Interview Questions (Part 1)](/community/tutorials/javase8-interview-questions-part1)". Java SE […]

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SLES 15 — fuse3 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — fuse3 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 17 July 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:3470-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-10152 CVE-2018-15664 Upstream summary: A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in podman before version 1.4.0 in the way it handles symlinks inside containers. An […]

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

How to Set Up SNMP on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to SNMP on Windows Server 2019 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a standard protocol for monitoring and managing network devices and servers. On Windows Server 2019, the SNMP service allows network monitoring systems such as Nagios, Zabbix, PRTG, SolarWinds, and Cacti to query the server for operational data including system information, network interface […]

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SLES 15 — libqt5-qtimageformats — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libqt5-qtimageformats — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 July 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:0705-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19871 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in Qt before 5.11.3. There is QTgaFile Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & […]

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

SLES 15 — pam_yubico — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 July 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-9275 Upstream summary: In check_user_token in util.c in the Yubico PAM module (aka pam_yubico) 2.18 through 2.25, successful logins can leak file descriptors to the […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-pip — 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 SUSE-FU-2021:2130-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-5123 CVE-2014-8991 CVE-2015-2296 Upstream summary: The mirroring support (-M, –use-mirrors) in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers […]

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