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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 July 2021 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-IU-2021:741-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-12825 CVE-2017-7960 CVE-2017-7961 CVE-2017-8834 CVE-2017-8871 Upstream summary: libcroco through 0.6.13 has excessive recursion in cr_parser_parse_any_core in cr-parser.c, leading to stack consumption. Table of contents Symptom […]

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SLES 15 — ruby2.5-rubygem-websocket-extensions — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — ruby2.5-rubygem-websocket-extensions — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 July 2021 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:0127-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-7663 Upstream summary: websocket-extensions ruby module prior to 0.1.5 allows Denial of Service (DoS) via Regex Backtracking. The extension parser may take quadratic time when […]

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How To Set Up the Eclipse Theia Cloud IDE Platform on Ubuntu 18.04 [Quickstart] — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up the Eclipse Theia Cloud IDE Platform on Ubuntu 18.04 [Quickstart]

Eclipse Theia is an extensible cloud IDE running on a remote server and accessible from a web browser. In this tutorial, you’ll deploy Eclipse Theia to your Ubuntu 18.04 server using Docker Compose, a container orchestration tool. You’ll expose it at your domain using nginx-proxy, an automated system for Docker that simplifies the process of configuring Nginx to serve as a reverse proxy for a container.

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Oracle Linux 8 — idm:DL1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — idm:DL1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-5142)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 July 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-5142 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25719 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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Oracle Linux 8 — go-toolset:ol8 security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — go-toolset:ol8 security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2021-3076)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 9 July 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-3076 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-31525 CVE-2021-27918 CVE-2021-33196 CVE-2021-34558 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — qt5-qtxmlpatterns — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — qt5-qtxmlpatterns — 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-2021:4172 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3481 Upstream summary: Qt is a software toolkit for developing applications. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: adwaita-qt (1.2.1), python-qt5 (5.15.0), qgnomeplatform (0.7.1), qt5 […]

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Alpine Linux edge — py3-dask — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — py3-dask — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2022.2.0-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — py3-dask 2022.2.0-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-42343 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships py3-dask 2022.2.0-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-42343. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — spamassassin — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — spamassassin — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2018-1103 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-15705 CVE-2018-11781 CVE-2020-1946 CVE-2019-12420 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in the way SpamAssassin processes HTML email containing unclosed HTML tags. A carefully crafted mail message could […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libtirpc3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libtirpc3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2022:2025-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-46828 Upstream summary: In libtirpc before 1.3.3rc1, remote attackers could exhaust the file descriptors of a process that uses libtirpc because idle TCP connections are […]

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Arch Linux — raptor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — raptor — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202011-20 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25713 CVE-2017-18926 Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 2.0.15-13. Fixed in: 2.0.15-14. Group: AVG-1283. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root […]

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