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How to Install and Configure Drone CI on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Drone CI on RHEL 8

Drone CI is a lightweight, container-native continuous integration platform that runs every pipeline step inside an isolated Docker container. Its pipeline definition lives entirely in a .drone.yml file committed alongside your source code, making pipelines version-controlled and reproducible by default. In this tutorial you will install Docker CE on RHEL 8, deploy a Drone Server […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — maven — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — maven — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — 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-2023:712-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-26291 CVE-2021-42550 Upstream summary: Apache Maven will follow repositories that are defined in a dependency's Project Object Model (pom) which may be surprising to some […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — systemd security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2020-1794)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 28 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-1794 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3844 CVE-2019-3843 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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Alpine Linux edge — gmp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — gmp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 6.2.1-r1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — gmp 6.2.1-r1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-43618 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships gmp 6.2.1-r1 which addresses CVE-2021-43618. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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RHEL 7 auditd Backlog Limit Reached

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 28 May 2021 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~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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How to Harden the Linux Kernel with sysctl on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden the Linux Kernel with sysctl on RHEL 7

How to Harden the Linux Kernel with sysctl on RHEL 7 The Linux kernel exposes hundreds of tunable parameters through the /proc/sys/ virtual filesystem, and the sysctl utility provides a clean interface for reading and setting those values at runtime and persistently across reboots. Many of these parameters have direct security implications: they control whether […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — openssl-ibmca — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — openssl-ibmca — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 May 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6046-1 Related CVEs: https://launchpad.net/bugs/2015454 Upstream summary: It was discovered that OpenSSL-ibmca incorrectly handled certain RSA decryption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. Table of contents […]

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Debian 10 — opensmtpd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — opensmtpd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 May 2021 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-7247 CVE-2020-8794 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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Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-4.14.225-169.362 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — kernel-livepatch-4.14.225-169.362 — vulnerability — 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 ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2021-051 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33034 Upstream summary: A use-after-free flaw was found in hci_send_acl in the bluetooth host controller interface (HCI) in Linux kernel, where a local attacker with an access […]

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