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SLES 15 — hplip — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — hplip — multiple vulnerabilities (9 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 October 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-RU-2025:0270-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-6923 CVE-2010-4267 CVE-2011-2697 CVE-2013-4325 CVE-2013-6402 CVE-2013-6427 CVE-2015-0839 CVE-2004-0801  +1 more Upstream summary: The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) software may potentially be affected by […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — node-bl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — node-bl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 October 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5159-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8244 Upstream summary: It was discovered that bl incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Table of […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — Storage Management in Cockpit Web Console Can't Be Used With Multipath Devices — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — Storage Management in Cockpit Web Console Can’t Be Used With Multipath Devices

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 21 October 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Oracle Bug 36671939 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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Debian 9 Journald Grows Too Large and Consumes Disk

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 21 October 2020 Affected versions: Debian 9 📖 ~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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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Filesystem Mount Fails at Boot

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 21 October 2020 📖 ~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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Ubuntu 18.04 — musl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — musl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 October 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5990-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14697 CVE-2020-28928 Upstream summary: It was discovered that musl did not handle certain i386 math functions properly. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — prometheus-jmx-exporter — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — prometheus-jmx-exporter — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-4807)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 21 October 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4807 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-18640 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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How To Install Piwik on an Ubuntu 12.04 Cloud Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Piwik on an Ubuntu 12.04 Cloud Server

Piwik is an open-source analytics system, which can be hosted at your cloud sever. It provides a more personalized solution than Google Analytics as it lets you have ownership and more control of your data, shows detailed traffic in real-time, and it has more stylistic graphs to see your data more effectively.

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Oracle Linux 8 — dotnet3.1 security and bugfix update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — dotnet3.1 security and bugfix update (ELSA-2021-2037)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 20 October 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-2037 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-31204 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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