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openSUSE Tumbleweed — vorbis-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — vorbis-tools — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:4218-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2023-43361 CVE-2014-9638 CVE-2014-9639 CVE-2014-9640 CVE-2015-6749 Upstream summary: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Vorbis-tools v.1.4.2 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — openvswitch — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — openvswitch — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 April 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6690-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-3966 CVE-2023-5366 CVE-2023-1668 CVE-2022-4337 CVE-2022-4338 CVE-2021-36980 CVE-2020-35498 CVE-2015-8011  +1 more Upstream summary: Timothy Redaelli and Haresh Khandelwal discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain crafted Geneve packets […]

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How To Use BitTorrent Sync to Synchronize Directories in Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use BitTorrent Sync to Synchronize Directories in Ubuntu 14.04

BitTorrent Sync allows you to sync directories across servers by leveraging an encrypted version of the BitTorrent protocol. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to configure BitTorrent Sync between two servers. We will also configure an SSL reverse proxy through Nginx in order to encrypt our traffic with the web interface.

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SLES 15 — libctf0 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libctf0 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 17 April 2023 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:3179-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2022-44840 CVE-2022-47673 CVE-2022-47695 CVE-2022-47696 CVE-2020-19726 CVE-2022-45703 CVE-2021-20294 CVE-2022-35205  +12 more Upstream summary: Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in binutils readelf before 2.40 via function find_section_in_set in […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — grafana — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-5863)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 April 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-5863 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-44487 CVE-2023-39325 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — olcne istio istio — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-9362)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 17 April 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-9362 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-24921 CVE-2022-24726 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & […]

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Gentoo Linux — app-crypt/gnupg — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — app-crypt/gnupg — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202512-01 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-34903 Upstream summary: A vulnerability has been discovered in GnuPG's armor parser. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — wireshark — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — wireshark — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2023-2373)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 April 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-2373 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-3190 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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Amazon Linux 2023 — kernel-livepatch-6.1.12-19.43 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — kernel-livepatch-6.1.12-19.43 — vulnerability — 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 ALAS2023LIVEPATCH-2023-001 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-26545 Upstream summary: In the Linux kernel before 6.1.13, there is a double free in net/mpls/af_mpls.c upon an allocation failure (for registering the sysctl table under a […]

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