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How To Install Java on CentOS, Rocky Linux, RHEL, and Fedora — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Java on CentOS, Rocky Linux, RHEL, and Fedora

This tutorial will show you how to install Java on current versions of RPM-based Linux distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, and Rocky Linux. Java is a popular programming language and software platform that allows you to run many server-side applications. This tutorial covers installing the latest, default version of Java, as well as cherry-picking any older versions for installation, and switching between multiple versions in your environment as needed.

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

Oracle Linux 9 — keylime — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-8444)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 11 March 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-8444 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-3500 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 — sysstat — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — sysstat — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2023-6569)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 March 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-6569 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-33204 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 8 — unit-api — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — unit-api — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2022:0290 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4104 CVE-2022-23302 CVE-2022-23305 CVE-2022-23307 Upstream summary: Parfait is a Java performance monitoring library that collects metrics and exposes them through a variety of outputs. It provides APIs for extracting […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS DNS Resolution Fails Intermittently

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 10 March 2023 Affected versions: 20.04 LTS 📖 ~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 & […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2022:0290 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4104 CVE-2022-23302 CVE-2022-23305 CVE-2022-23307 Upstream summary: Parfait is a Java performance monitoring library that collects metrics and exposes them through a variety of outputs. It provides APIs for extracting […]

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CentOS Stream 9 — libguestfs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on CentOS Stream 9

CentOS Stream 9 — libguestfs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 March 2023 Affected versions: CentOS Stream 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux/RHEL advisory ALSA-2022:7958 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-2211 Upstream summary: The libguestfs packages contain a library used for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. Security Fix(es): * libguestfs: Buffer overflow in get_keys leads to […]

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How To Set Up SSH Keys on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up SSH Keys on Ubuntu 16.04

SSH-key-based authentication provides a more secure alternative to password-based authentication. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to set up SSH key-based authentication on an Ubuntu 16.04 installation.

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Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-5.10.82-83.359 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2022-076 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4155 CVE-2022-0185 Upstream summary: A data leak flaw was found in the way XFS_IOC_ALLOCSP IOCTL in the XFS filesystem allowed for size increase of files with unaligned […]

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