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

Ubuntu 18.04 — opusfile — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 January 2023 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5937-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-47021 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Opusfile was not properly validating pointer arguments in some of its functions, which could lead to a NULL pointer dereference. […]

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SLES 15 — amazon-ssm-agent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — amazon-ssm-agent — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 January 2023 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2022:1510-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2022-29527 Upstream summary: Amazon AWS amazon-ssm-agent before 3.1.1208.0 creates a world-writable sudoers file, which allows local attackers to inject Sudo rules and escalate privileges to […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — java-17-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — java-17-openjdk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-0161)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 8 January 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-0161 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-21294 CVE-2022-21299 CVE-2022-21283 CVE-2022-21248 CVE-2022-21291 CVE-2022-21340 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — Unbreakable Enterprise kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — Unbreakable Enterprise kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-12119)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 January 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-12119 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-4139 CVE-2022-42896 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 9 — ELSA-2025-20518-0: kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — ELSA-2025-20518-0: kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2025-20518-0)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 8 January 2023 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2025-20518-0 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-48830 CVE-2022-49024 CVE-2022-49269 CVE-2022-49353 CVE-2022-49357 CVE-2022-49432 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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How to Scan for Vulnerabilities with OpenVAS on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Scan for Vulnerabilities with OpenVAS on RHEL 9

OpenVAS, now distributed as Greenbone Community Edition (GCE), is one of the most comprehensive open-source vulnerability scanners available, capable of identifying thousands of known CVEs across network services, web applications, and operating system configurations. Installing it natively on RHEL 9 requires complex dependency management, so the recommended approach is to deploy it via Docker Compose, […]

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Настройка брандмауэра с помощью firewalld в CentOS 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Настройка брандмауэра с помощью firewalld в CentOS 8

firewalld — программное обеспечение для управления брандмауэрами, поддерживаемое многими дистрибутивами Linux. Выступает в качестве клиентского интерфейса для встроенных в ядро Linux систем фильтрации пакетов…

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Debian 11 — libde265 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libde265 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 8 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-21594 CVE-2020-21595 CVE-2020-21596 CVE-2020-21597 CVE-2020-21598 CVE-2020-21599 CVE-2020-21600 CVE-2020-21601  +12 more Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – […]

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How to Install and Use Podman with Buildah on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Use Podman with Buildah on RHEL 7

How to Install and Use Podman with Buildah on RHEL 7 As enterprises move away from Docker and toward daemonless container tools, Podman and Buildah have emerged as the preferred container toolkit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Podman provides a Docker-compatible CLI for running containers without a background daemon, while Buildah specializes in constructing OCI-compliant […]

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Debian 9 – dpkg was interrupted and package configuration is incomplete

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 7 January 2023 Affected versions: Debian 9 📖 ~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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