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SLES 12 — jdom — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — jdom — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 13 March 2021 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:712-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33813 Upstream summary: An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request. […]

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How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 16.04

Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files. If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they would eventually consume all available disk space on a system. In this article, we will explore the default Logrotate configuration, then configure log rotation for a fictional custom application.

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

Debian 10 — php-pear — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 March 2021 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-28948 CVE-2020-36193 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 — claws-mail — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — claws-mail — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 3.17.7-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — claws-mail 3.17.7-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-16094 CVE-2020-15917 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships claws-mail 3.17.7-r0 which addresses CVE-2020-16094. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — dpdk security, bug fix, and — enhancement update — new behaviour and fixes (ELSA-2020-4806)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 12 March 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4806 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-10722 CVE-2020-10723 CVE-2020-10726 CVE-2020-10725 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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Common Problems 118502

Ubuntu 16.04 Interface Fails to Come Up After /etc/network/interfaces Edit

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 12 March 2021 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Common Problems 115109

RHEL 8 – Postfix Mail Queue Stalls from DNS Resolver Problems

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 12 March 2021 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Gentoo Linux — mail-filter/opendmarc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — mail-filter/opendmarc — 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-202011-02 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-12460 Upstream summary: It was found that OpenDMARC did not properly handle DMARC aggregate reports. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 12 March 2021 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14287 CVE-2021-3156 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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How To Use Martini to Serve Go Applications Behind an Nginx Server on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Martini to Serve Go Applications Behind an Nginx Server on Ubuntu

Web frameworks allow you to quickly program web applications without having to worry about the underlying glue that holds everything together. Martini is a modern web framework for the Go programming language that makes it easy to write web applications. In this guide, we will discuss how to create a Martini application and use Nginx as a reverse proxy to serve it requests.

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