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Debian 11 — abcm2ps — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — abcm2ps — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 November 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1258 CVE-2010-3441 CVE-2010-4743 CVE-2010-4744 CVE-2018-10753 CVE-2018-10771 CVE-2019-1010069 CVE-2021-32434  +2 more Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the put_words function in subs.c for abcm2ps 3.7.20 allows remote attackers to execute […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — glibc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-9560)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 November 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-9560 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-27645 CVE-2021-35942 CVE-2021-33574 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 — flatpak — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — flatpak — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-4042)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 November 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-4042 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-41133 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 — alsa-lib — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — alsa-lib — 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-2022:1906 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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How To Secure Traffic Between VPS Using OpenVPN — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Traffic Between VPS Using OpenVPN

OpenVPN is a great tool to ensure traffic is not eavesdropped. You can use this to ensure a secure connection from your laptop to your the cloud provider VPS (droplet) as well as between cloud servers. This article is to help get you started on your way to setting up a Virtual Private Network.

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How To Automate Your Node.js Production Deployments with Shipit on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Automate Your Node.js Production Deployments with Shipit on CentOS 7

Shipit is a universal automation and deployment tool for Node.js developers. It features a task flow based on the popular Orchestrator package, login and interactive SSH commands through OpenSSH, and an extensible API. Developers can use Shipit to automate build and deployment workflows for a wide range of Node.js applications. In this tutorial you will install and configure Shipit to deploy a basic Node.js application from your local development environment to your product environment.

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Oracle Linux 8 — mutt security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — mutt security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2021-4181)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 9 November 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-4181 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-28896 CVE-2021-3181 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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AlmaLinux 8 — icu4j — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — icu4j — 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-2020:5097 Upstream summary: Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE). The metadata for the eclipse:rhel8 module has been updated to remove the following unused profiles: c everything To check whether you have […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — python-linux-procfs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — python-linux-procfs — 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-2022:2064 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 — jscropperui — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — jscropperui — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 November 2021 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2007-2383 CVE-2008-7220 Upstream summary: The Prototype (prototypejs) framework before 1.5.1 RC3 exchanges data using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) without an associated protection scheme, which allows remote attackers to […]

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