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How to Set Up a Certificate Authority with OpenSSL on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Certificate Authority with OpenSSL on RHEL 7

How to Set Up a Certificate Authority with OpenSSL on RHEL 7 A Private Certificate Authority (CA) is essential infrastructure for any organization that needs to issue and manage TLS certificates for internal services, VPNs, mutual TLS authentication, or code signing — without relying on commercial CAs or exposing internal hostnames to the public internet. […]

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How to Configure OPcache for PHP on CentOS Stream 9 — step-by-step CentOS Stream 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure OPcache for PHP on CentOS Stream 9

Introduction Setting up configure opcache for php on centos stream 9 on a CentOS Stream 9 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Configure OPcache for PHP on CentOS Stream 9, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld considerations to […]

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

AlmaLinux 8 — checkpolicy — 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-2019:3537 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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AlmaLinux 8 — virt-manager — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — virt-manager — 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-2022:1862 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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Debian 11 — most — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — most — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1253 Upstream summary: The most package in Debian wheezy before 5.0.0a-2.2, in Debian jessie before 5.0.0a-2.3+deb8u1, and in Debian unstable before 5.0.0a-3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary […]

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Debian 11 — libzip — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — libzip — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 December 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0421 CVE-2012-1162 CVE-2012-1163 CVE-2015-2331 CVE-2017-14107 Upstream summary: The _zip_name_locate function in zip_name_locate.c in the Zip extension in PHP before 5.3.6 does not properly handle a ZIPARCHIVE::FL_UNCHANGED argument, which […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — compat-exiv2-026 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — compat-exiv2-026 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-4319)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 December 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-4319 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-37619 CVE-2021-37618 CVE-2021-31292 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 8 — nginx:1.18 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — nginx:1.18 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-2259)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 30 December 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-2259 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-23017 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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AlmaLinux 8 — lld — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — lld — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2021:4743 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-42574 Upstream summary: LLVM Toolset provides the LLVM compiler infrastructure framework, the Clang compiler for the C and C++ languages, the LLDB debugger, and related tools for code analysis. […]

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