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

Ubuntu 18.04 — htmlunit — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 April 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8220-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-49093 Upstream summary: It was discovered that HtmlUnit was vulnerable to remote code execution via XSLT when browsing an attacker-controlled webpage. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — exim4 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — exim4 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 April 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6881-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-38371 CVE-2023-42117 CVE-2023-42119 CVE-2023-42114 CVE-2023-42115 CVE-2023-42116 CVE-2022-37452 CVE-2020-28007  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Exim did not enforce STARTTLS sync point on client side. An […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — xmlrpc-c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — xmlrpc-c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2022-1795 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-25235 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in expat. Passing malformed 2- and 3-byte UTF-8 sequences (for example, from start tag names) to the XML processing application […]

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How To Create an ECC Certificate on Nginx for Debian 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an ECC Certificate on Nginx for Debian 7

Create an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) key pair for more efficient certificate encryption. ECC keys provide security equivalent to that of larger RSA keys while being smaller in size, reducing the resources needed on the server and offering faster performance for mobile devices.

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CentOS Stream 9 — fribidi — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on CentOS Stream 9

CentOS Stream 9 — fribidi — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 28 April 2023 Affected versions: CentOS Stream 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux/RHEL advisory ALSA-2022:8011 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-25308 CVE-2022-25309 CVE-2022-25310 Upstream summary: FriBidi is a library to handle bidirectional scripts (for example Hebrew, Arabic), so that the display is done in the proper way, while […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — samba security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — samba security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2022-8317)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 April 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-8317 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-32742 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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Debian 11 — snappy-java — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — snappy-java — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 April 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-43642 Upstream summary: snappy-java is a Java port of the snappy, a fast C++ compresser/decompresser developed by Google. The SnappyInputStream was found to be vulnerable to Denial of […]

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