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

Debian 11 — mecab — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-3231 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in MeCab before 0.96 has unknown impact and attack vectors. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick […]

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Debian 11 — python-libnmap — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — python-libnmap — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-1010017 Upstream summary: libnmap < v0.6.3 is affected by: XML Injection. The impact is: Denial of service (DoS) by consuming resources. The component is: XML Parsing. The attack […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — percona-xtrabackup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — percona-xtrabackup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6745-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-25834 Upstream summary: It was discovered that in Percona XtraBackup, a local crafted filename could trigger arbitrary code execution. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — subversion — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — subversion — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-2022:2234 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-24070 CVE-2020-17525 Upstream summary: Subversion (SVN) is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — protobuf — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — protobuf — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 December 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5945-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-22569 CVE-2021-22570 CVE-2022-1941 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly validate field com.google.protobuf.UnknownFieldSet in protobuf-java. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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How to Enable Brotli and Gzip Compression in Nginx on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Enable Brotli and Gzip Compression in Nginx on RHEL 7

How to Enable Brotli and Gzip Compression in Nginx on RHEL 7 Compression is one of the highest-return optimizations available for web servers: it requires minimal CPU investment but can reduce text-based response sizes by 60–80%, directly improving page load times and reducing bandwidth costs. Nginx ships with the ngx_http_gzip_module built in and available on […]

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How To Install Node.js on CentOS 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Node.js on CentOS 8

In this guide, we will show you three different ways of getting Node.js installed on a CentOS 8 server: using `dnf` to install the `nodejs` package from CentOS’s default AppStream repository; installing `nvm`, the Node Version Manager, and using it to install and manage multiple versions of `node`; compiling and installing `node` from source.

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – apt lock contention from unattended-upgrades blocks installs – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 December 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 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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Debian 11 — jquery-minicolors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — jquery-minicolors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 December 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32850 Upstream summary: jQuery MiniColors is a color picker built on jQuery. Prior to version 2.3.6, jQuery MiniColors is prone to cross-site scripting when handling untrusted color names. […]

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