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

Ubuntu 18.04 — npm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 12 June 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4785-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-3956 Upstream summary: It was discovered that the npm command-line interface mishandled certain sensitive information. An attacker could use this vulnerability to collect authentication information that could […]

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How to Set Up a Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Scale-Out File Server on Windows Server 2019 Scale-Out File Server (SoFS) is a Windows Server 2019 failover cluster role that presents Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) as SMB 3.x file shares that all cluster nodes simultaneously serve. Unlike a traditional clustered file server where only one node owns the storage at a time, SoFS […]

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

SLES 15 — autofs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 12 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2015:1020-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-8169 Upstream summary: automount 5.0.8, when a program map uses certain interpreted languages, uses the calling user's USER and HOME environment variable values instead of […]

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Common Problems 115504

sudo Command Delays from Hostname Lookup Failures

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 11 June 2019 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Common Problems 114991

RHEL 8 XFS Filesystem Forced Read-Only After IO Error

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 11 June 2019 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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FreeBSD 12 — kf5-kconfig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — kf5-kconfig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: KDE Frameworks — malicious .desktop files execute code Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14744 Upstream summary: The KDE Community has released a security announcement: The syntax Key[$e]=$(shell command) in *.desktop files.directory files, and […]

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