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

AlmaLinux 8 — rig — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALEA-2022:1786 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 — accountsservice — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — accountsservice — multiple vulnerabilities (20 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-2021:4381 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13558 CVE-2020-24870 CVE-2020-27918 CVE-2020-29623 CVE-2020-36241 CVE-2021-1765 CVE-2021-1788 CVE-2021-1789  +12 more Upstream summary: GNOME is the default desktop environment of AlmaLinux. The following packages have been upgraded to a later […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — shiro — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — shiro — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 23 May 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6352-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13933 CVE-2020-17510 CVE-2020-11989 CVE-2020-1957 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Shiro incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass […]

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How To Perform CRUD Operations in MongoDB Using PyMongo on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Perform CRUD Operations in MongoDB Using PyMongo on Ubuntu 20.04

MongoDB is a general-purpose, document-oriented, NoSQL database program that uses JSON-like documents to store data. PyMongo is the recommended driver for working with MongoDB from Python. This tutorial will cover writing a Python script that creates, retrieves, updates and deletes data in a locally installed MongoDB server on Ubuntu 20.04.

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How To Install and Setup Elgg on a Debian or Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Setup Elgg on a Debian or Ubuntu VPS

Elgg is an award winning PHP engine for running your own full fledged social network. It has great community support in the form of plugins and themes made by official developers and the user community. Here’s how to install and setup Elgg on a Debian or Ubuntu VPS.

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How To Deploy Multiple PHP Applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Deploy Multiple PHP Applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial is the third in a series about deploying PHP applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04. In this tutorial, we will build on what we learned in the previous tutorials by transforming our single-application Ansible playbook into a playbook that supports deploying multiple PHP applications on one or multiple servers.

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

Oracle Linux 8 — openssl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-1024)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 23 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-1024 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3449 CVE-2021-3450 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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Gentoo Linux — net-libs/libetpan — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — net-libs/libetpan — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202007-55 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15953 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libetpan was not properly handling state within the STARTTLS protocol handshake. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — nodejs:12 security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — nodejs:12 security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2021-3073)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-3073 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-23362 CVE-2021-27290 CVE-2021-22918 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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