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How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8

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 a Rocky Linux 8 server.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — gif2apng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — gif2apng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 February 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5969-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45909 CVE-2021-45910 CVE-2021-45911 Upstream summary: It was discovered that gif2apng contained multiple heap-base overflows. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service (system […]

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How to Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt and Certbot on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt and Certbot on RHEL 8

Securing your Apache web server with a free SSL/TLS certificate from Let’s Encrypt is one of the most important steps you can take to protect your visitors and improve your site’s trustworthiness. Certbot, the official Let’s Encrypt client, automates the entire certificate issuance and renewal process. On RHEL 8, Certbot is available through the EPEL […]

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SLES 15 — rpm — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — rpm — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 February 2022 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2019:695-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7500 CVE-2021-3521 CVE-2021-3421 CVE-2021-20266 CVE-2021-20271 Upstream summary: It was found that rpm did not properly handle RPM installations when a destination path was a symbolic […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — firefox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-0288)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 February 2022 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-0288 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-23964 CVE-2021-23953 CVE-2021-23954 CVE-2021-23960 CVE-2020-26976 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby3.2-rubygem-nokogiri — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby3.2-rubygem-nokogiri — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2022-23476 Upstream summary: Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for the Ruby programming language. Nokogiri `1.13.8` and `1.13.9` fail to check the […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — usbredir — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — usbredir — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2022:1848 Upstream summary: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — cifs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — cifs-utils — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-IU-2022:632-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2022-27239 CVE-2012-1586 CVE-2020-14342 CVE-2021-20208 Upstream summary: In cifs-utils through 6.14, a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing the mount.cifs ip= command-line argument could lead to local […]

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Alpine Linux edge — grafana — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — grafana — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 9.1.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — grafana 9.1.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-31176 CVE-2022-31097 CVE-2022-31107 CVE-2022-29170 CVE-2022-21702 CVE-2022-21703 CVE-2022-21713 CVE-2022-21673  +12 more Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships grafana 9.1.2-r0 which […]

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