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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rzip — 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-2017-8364 Upstream summary: The read_buf function in stream.c in rzip 2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application […]

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Alpine Linux edge — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — mpv — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 0.27.0-r3 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — mpv 0.27.0-r3 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-6360 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships mpv 0.27.0-r3 which addresses CVE-2018-6360. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Install Harbor Container Registry on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Harbor Container Registry on Debian 10

Introduction How to Install Harbor Container Registry 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. […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-perl/DBI — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-perl/DBI — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202009-07 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14392 CVE-2020-14393 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Perl module DBI. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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How To Install and Use OTPW for Single-Use SSH Passwords on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use OTPW for Single-Use SSH Passwords on Ubuntu 14.04

SSH is a way of connecting to a remote server securely. It includes a number of mechanisms to perform this task in a safe way. However, the protocol assumes that the computer that you are connecting from is secure. In this guide, we will instruct you on how to set up one time passwords as an option for connecting to your server from an insecure location. We will do this by configuring the OTPW utility on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine.

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Debian 10 — debian-lan-config — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — debian-lan-config — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 May 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3467 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — schismtracker — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — schismtracker — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:1994-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14523 CVE-2019-14524 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in Schism Tracker through 20190722. There is an integer underflow via a large plen in fmt_okt_load_song in […]

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How To Install Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Mastodon on Ubuntu 20.04

Mastodon is a microblogging social networking application that uses a decentralized model, also termed as a federation by its creators. Mastodon is open-source and can be deployed by anyone on any server, with each server being its own instance that can have its own policies and moderation. Within the federation, each Mastodon instance can be made aware of other instances. This allows interaction with other users both within an instance and with other instances.

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SLES 12 — libesmtp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libesmtp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 27 May 2020 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-IU-2021:658-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19977 Upstream summary: libESMTP through 1.0.6 mishandles domain copying into a fixed-size buffer in ntlm_build_type_2 in ntlm/ntlmstruct.c, as demonstrated by a stack-based buffer over-read. Table […]

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