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What to do after installing Arch Linux? — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

What to do after installing Arch Linux?

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/steps-after-installing-arch-linux/ A vanilla Arch Linux installation gives you your base operating system with no utilities, allowing you to choose what you want your Operating System to behave like. This allows the user to have complete access over their operating system. A vanilla installation leaves you with nothing more than just a black screen which […]

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Debian 10 — blender — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — blender — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2022-0544 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 Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 22.04

Fail2ban is a service that can be run on your server to dynamically block clients that repeatedly fail to authenticate correctly with your services . This can help mitigate the affect of brute force attacks and illegitimate users of your services. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to install and configure fail2ban to protect SSH on an Ubuntu 22.04 server.

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How to Install Maven and Gradle on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Maven and Gradle on RHEL 7

How to Install Maven and Gradle on RHEL 7 Apache Maven and Gradle are the two dominant build automation tools in the Java ecosystem. Maven, with its opinionated convention-over-configuration approach and XML-based pom.xml descriptor, has been an enterprise standard for over a decade. Gradle, a newer entrant, uses a Groovy or Kotlin DSL and provides […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 printer not detected or pending forever

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 12 January 2023 📖 ~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 References & Further […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 12 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0012 CVE-2009-2294 Upstream summary: Format string vulnerability in the a_Interface_msg function in Dillo before 0.8.3-r4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a […]

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Debian 11 — emacs-jabber — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — emacs-jabber — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 12 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2008-4952 Upstream summary: emacs-jabber in emacs-jabber 0.7.91 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/*.log temporary file. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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