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openSUSE Tumbleweed — man — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — man — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2007:007 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4250 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in man and mandb (man-db) 2.4.3 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — httpcomponents-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — httpcomponents-client — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5239-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13956 Upstream summary: It was discovered that HttpClient mishandled certain input. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. Table […]

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How To Install Ruby on Rails with RVM on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Ruby on Rails with RVM on Ubuntu 20.04

A popular web application framework, Ruby on Rails (often referred to as Rails) was designed to help you develop successful projects while writing less code. RVM lets you manage and work with multiple Ruby development environments and allows you to switch between them.

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How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin with Nginx on a CentOS 7 Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Secure phpMyAdmin with Nginx on a CentOS 7 Server

Administering relational databases from the command line can be a daunting proposition for many people. A project called phpMyAdmin aims to alleviate this issue by providing an easy to use web interface for MySQL. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install and secure phpMyAdmin on top of a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP) stack on a CentOS 7 server.

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Debian 10: PostgreSQL fails because WAL partition is full

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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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Gentoo Linux — dev-db/mysql-connector-c — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-db/mysql-connector-c — multiple vulnerabilities (20 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-202105-27 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-2938 CVE-2019-2974 CVE-2020-14539 CVE-2020-14540 CVE-2020-14547 CVE-2020-14550 CVE-2020-14553 CVE-2020-14559  +12 more Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MySQL. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – locale warnings appear in shell and scripts

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu 14.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — vtk — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — vtk — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4852-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20843 CVE-2019-15903 Upstream summary: It was discovered that VTK incorrectly handled certain XML files in the embedded Expat library. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — spice-client — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — spice-client — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — 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-2015:1733-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3247 CVE-2015-5260 CVE-2015-5261 CVE-2016-0749 CVE-2016-2150 Upstream summary: Race condition in the worker_update_monitors_config function in SPICE 0.12.4 allows a remote authenticated guest user to cause a […]

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How to Configure Percona XtraBackup on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Percona XtraBackup on Debian 10

Introduction How to Configure Percona XtraBackup 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 10. This […]

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