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

Oracle Linux 8 — libarchive — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-3018)

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 October 2022 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-3018 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-36227 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 Set Up and Install Django CMS on a Debian 7 or Ubuntu 13 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up and Install Django CMS on a Debian 7 or Ubuntu 13 VPS

In this the cloud provider article, we will walk you through installing Django CMS on a Debian 7/Ubuntu 13 VPS, ready to be configured and used. Django CMS is one of the content management systems that is geared towards working with Django framework based web applications. It is perhaps the most popular one out of almost three dozen other options available today.

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

Oracle Linux 9 — lua — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-7329)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 October 2022 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-7329 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-33099 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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SLES 15 — kernel-docs — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — kernel-docs — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 30 October 2022 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SA:2011:019 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1180 CVE-2022-2991 CVE-2021-39713 CVE-2020-0433 CVE-2021-0935 CVE-2021-23133 CVE-2018-25020 CVE-2020-0429  +12 more Upstream summary: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the iriap_getvaluebyclass_indication function in net/irda/iriap.c in the Linux […]

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How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on Debian 11 — step-by-step Debian 11 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on Debian 11

Introduction How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on Debian 11 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 11 Bullseye server. Debian 11 Bullseye ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 11. […]

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Debian 9 Permissions Changed Incorrectly After Recursive chmod

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 29 October 2022 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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Recommended Steps To Harden Apache HTTP on FreeBSD 12.0 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Recommended Steps To Harden Apache HTTP on FreeBSD 12.0

Although the default installation of an Apache HTTP server is already safe to use, its configuration can be substantially improved with a few modifications. In this tutorial you’ll implement some recommended steps to reduce how much information on your server is exposed. You will verify the directory listings and disable indexing to check the access to resources. You’ll also change the default value of the timeout directive to help mitigate Denial of Service type of attacks.

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Debian 11 — libapache-mod-auth-radius — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libapache-mod-auth-radius — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 October 2022 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0108 Upstream summary: Apache mod_auth_radius 1.5.4 and libpam-radius-auth allow remote malicious RADIUS servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a RADIUS_REPLY_MESSAGE with a RADIUS attribute length […]

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