NFS (Network File System) allows Linux systems to share directories over a network. It is the standard protocol for shared storage in Linux environments, used for home directories, media servers, and cluster storage. This guide sets up an NFS server and client on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu […]
Introduction Setting up secure mariadb with mysql_secure_installation on a RHEL 10 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Secure MariaDB with mysql_secure_installation on RHEL 10, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld considerations to keep in mind, and how to […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023-2026-1636 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-4948 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in firewalld. A local unprivileged user can exploit this vulnerability by mis-authorizing two runtime D-Bus (Desktop Bus) setters, setZoneSettings2 and […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 5 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-21269 Upstream summary: checkpath in OpenRC through 0.42.1 might allow local users to take ownership of arbitrary files because a non-terminal path component can be a symlink. Table of […]
🟠 High ⏱ 15–60 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read • Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2024:4420 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-4467 CVE-2022-40284 CVE-2023-3354 CVE-2020-35517 CVE-2025-11234 CVE-2025-49133 CVE-2024-3446 CVE-2024-7383 +12 more Upstream summary: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Rocky Linux 10 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Rocky Linux RXSA RLSA-2026:0108 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-11083 Upstream summary: Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Rocky Linux 10 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Rocky Linux RXSA RLSA-2026:13651 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-29111 Upstream summary: The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 5 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-15924 CVE-2019-5152 CVE-2019-5163 CVE-2019-5164 Upstream summary: In manager.c in ss-manager in shadowsocks-libev 3.1.0, improper parsing allows command injection via shell metacharacters in a JSON configuration request received via […]
🟢 Low ⏱ 5–15 min Last verified: 5 May 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-21419 CVE-2025-58068 Upstream summary: Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python. A websocket peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending very large websocket frames. Malicious […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 5 May 2026 📖 ~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 […]
