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How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 8

Suricata is a high-performance, open-source network threat detection engine that can operate as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to alert on suspicious traffic, or as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to actively block it. On RHEL 8, Suricata integrates naturally with firewalld‘s NFQUEUE target for inline packet inspection, and its Lua scripting and Eve JSON […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — Installer Automatically Enables Ethernet Over USB Network Interface During a PXE Installation — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — Installer Automatically Enables Ethernet Over USB Network Interface During a PXE Installation

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Oracle Bug 31888490 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 […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — jasper — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — jasper — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2021:4235 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-27828 CVE-2021-26926 CVE-2021-26927 CVE-2021-3272 Upstream summary: JasPer is an implementation of Part 1 of the JPEG 2000 image compression standard. Security Fix(es): * jasper: Heap-based buffer overflow in cp_create() […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – SSH login fails with Permission denied (publickey)

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 May 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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Alpine Linux edge — lz4 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — lz4 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.9.3-r1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — lz4 1.9.3-r1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3520 CVE-2019-17543 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships lz4 1.9.3-r1 which addresses CVE-2021-3520. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — fail2ban — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — fail2ban — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 May 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5232-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32749 Upstream summary: Jakub Żoczek discovered that certain Fail2ban actions handled whois responses in an insecure way. If Fail2ban was configured to use certain mail actions like […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — python3-pygments — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — python3-pygments — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2023-2117 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-27291 Upstream summary: In pygments 1.1+, fixed in 2.7.4, the lexers used to parse programming languages rely heavily on regular expressions. Some of the regular expressions have […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — httpd:2.4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — httpd:2.4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-0891)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-0891 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-34798 CVE-2021-39275 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 — olcne — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — olcne — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-9398)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 27 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-9398 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-28683 CVE-2021-31920 CVE-2021-34824 CVE-2021-29258 CVE-2021-31921 CVE-2021-28682 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — grafana — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-3771)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 27 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-3771 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-39226 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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