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Oracle Linux 9 — edk2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — edk2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2024-23120)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 2 May 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2024-23120 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-45231 CVE-2022-36763 CVE-2023-45230 CVE-2022-36765 CVE-2022-36764 CVE-2023-45229 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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How To Install and Configure NATS on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure NATS on Ubuntu 16.04

NATS is an open source high performance messaging system, often described as “a central nervous system for the cloud”. In this tutorial you’ll configure gnats, the official NATS server and create a basic server overload warning system that sends out emails when server load gets too high, using `gnatsd` as its message broker.

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Oracle Linux 9 — golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — golang-github-cpuguy83-md2man security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2023-2592)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 May 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-2592 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-41715 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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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systemd service stuck in crash loop

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 1 May 2023 Affected versions: 16.04 📖 ~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 […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — sysstat — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — sysstat — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023-2023-191 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-39377 CVE-2023-33204 Upstream summary: sysstat through 12.7.2 allows a multiplication integer overflow in check_overflow in common.c. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-39377. […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — vorbis-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — vorbis-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2025-2983 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-43361 Upstream summary: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Vorbis-tools v.1.4.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service during the conversion of […]

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Debian 11 — libjpeg — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libjpeg — multiple vulnerabilities (18 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 May 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-39514 CVE-2021-39515 CVE-2021-39516 CVE-2021-39517 CVE-2021-39518 CVE-2021-39519 CVE-2021-39520 CVE-2022-31620  +10 more Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in libjpeg through 2020021. An uncaught floating point exception in the function […]

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Debian 11 — pycryptodome — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — pycryptodome — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 May 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6594 CVE-2023-52323 Upstream summary: lib/Crypto/PublicKey/ElGamal.py in PyCrypto through 2.6.1 generates weak ElGamal key parameters, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading ciphertext data (i.e., it does […]

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Debian 11 — libconfuse — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libconfuse — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 May 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2022-40320 Upstream summary: cfg_tilde_expand in confuse.c in libConfuse 3.3 has a heap-based buffer over-read. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — cmark-gfm — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — cmark-gfm — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 May 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7319-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-39209 CVE-2023-22483 CVE-2023-22484 CVE-2023-22486 CVE-2023-26485 Upstream summary: It was discovered that cmark-gfm's autolink extension did not correctly handle parsing large inputs. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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