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

Oracle Linux 8 — firefox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-4317)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 20 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4317 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15969 CVE-2020-15683 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 Migrate a MySQL Database To A New Server On Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Migrate a MySQL Database To A New Server On Ubuntu 14.04

How to migrate your existing MySQL database off of your application server to scale your environment. Because every application has its own configuration quirks, with regards to database connections and interactions, we will demonstrate the migration process with WordPress but you can adapt this guide to any other application that uses MySQL as its database.

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SLES 12 — java — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — java — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 20 January 2021 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2020:0001-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-17631 CVE-2020-27221 CVE-2012-0497 CVE-2012-1533 CVE-2012-1682 CVE-2012-1713 CVE-2012-1716 CVE-2012-1723  +12 more Upstream summary: From Eclipse OpenJ9 0.15 to 0.16, access to diagnostic operations such as causing […]

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Arch Linux — libslirp — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — libslirp — multiple vulnerabilities (6 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-202106-49 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3595 CVE-2021-3594 CVE-2021-3593 CVE-2021-3592 CVE-2020-29130 CVE-2020-29129 Upstream summary: Type: information disclosure. Status: Fixed. Affected: 4.5.0-1. Fixed in: 4.6.0-1. Group: AVG-2073. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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Common Problems 119058

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Apache2 Fails with Address Already in Use

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 January 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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Oracle Linux 8 — Bug fix of NetworkManager — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — Bug fix of NetworkManager (ELSA-2025-0288)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2025-0288 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-3661 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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Common Problems 115446

RHEL 7 service network Restart Drops Active SSH Sessions

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 January 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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Common Problems 115409

RHEL 7 service reports running but application port is not listening

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 January 2021 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~2 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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