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Ubuntu 20.04 — protobuf-c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — protobuf-c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 26 March 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5531-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-33070 Upstream summary: Pietro Borrello discovered that protobuf-c contained an invalid arithmetic shift. This vulnerability allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — kvm_utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-9986)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 26 March 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-9986 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-0216 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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How To Install Suricata on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Suricata on Ubuntu 20.04

Suricata is a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tool that uses sets of community created and user defined signatures (also referred to as rules) to examine and process network traffic. Suricata can generate log events, trigger alerts, and drop traffic when it detects suspicious packets or requests to any number of different services running on a server.

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

Oracle Linux 8 — sqlite — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-0110)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 26 March 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-0110 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-35737 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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Oracle Linux 9 — .NET 6.0 security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — .NET 6.0 security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2023-4060)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 March 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-4060 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-33170 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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AlmaLinux 9 — postfix — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 9

AlmaLinux 9 — postfix — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2024:9243 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-51764 Upstream summary: The postfix packages provide a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), which supports protocols like LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL), and TLS. Security Fix(es): * postfix: SMTP smuggling vulnerability […]

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Debian 11 — python-asyncssh — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — python-asyncssh — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 March 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-7749 CVE-2023-46445 CVE-2023-46446 CVE-2023-48795 Upstream summary: The SSH server implementation of AsyncSSH before 1.12.1 does not properly check whether authentication is completed before processing other requests. A customized […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — wireshark — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — wireshark — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2023:7015 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-0666 CVE-2023-2856 CVE-2023-2858 CVE-2023-2952 Upstream summary: The wireshark packages contain a network protocol analyzer used to capture and browse the traffic running on a computer network. Security Fix(es): * […]

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

Debian 11 — hnswlib — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 March 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-37365 Upstream summary: Hnswlib 0.7.0 has a double free in init_index when the M argument is a large integer. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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