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openSUSE Tumbleweed — gnome-keyring — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — gnome-keyring — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2012-3466 Upstream summary: GNOME gnome-keyring 3.4.0 through 3.4.1, when gpg-cache-method is set to "idle" or "timeout," does not properly limit the amount of time a […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — libseccomp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — libseccomp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2019-1360 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9893 Upstream summary: libseccomp before 2.4.0 did not correctly generate 64-bit syscall argument comparisons using the arithmetic operators (LT, GT, LE, GE), which might able to lead […]

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Alpine Linux edge — vlc — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — vlc — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 3.0.9.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — vlc 3.0.9.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19721 CVE-2020-6071 CVE-2020-6072 CVE-2020-6073 CVE-2020-6077 CVE-2020-6078 CVE-2020-6079 CVE-2019-13602  +3 more Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships vlc 3.0.9.2-r0 which […]

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How to Set Up Chef Infra Client on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Chef Infra Client on Debian 10

Introduction How to Set Up Chef Infra Client on Debian 10 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 10 Buster server. Debian 10 Buster ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-libs/libxls — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-libs/libxls — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202003-64 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-12110 CVE-2017-12111 CVE-2017-2896 CVE-2017-2897 CVE-2017-2919 CVE-2018-20450 CVE-2018-20452 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxls. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-samba-provision — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-samba-provision — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2022:3199-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-17956 Upstream summary: In yast2-samba-provision up to and including version 1.0.1 the password for samba shares was provided on the command line to tools used […]

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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-2020-0111)

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 19 June 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-0111 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-17022 CVE-2019-17016 CVE-2019-17017 CVE-2019-17024 CVE-2019-17026 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative […]

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