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How to Install and Use Composer on Debian 10 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Use Composer on Debian 10

Composer is a popular dependency management tool for PHP, created mainly to facilitate installation and updates for project dependencies. In this guide, we’ll see how to install and use Composer on a Debian 10 server.

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Debian 9 – dpkg Interrupted State Blocks Package Operations – Full Recovery

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 February 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python38-autobahn — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python38-autobahn — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2021:0132-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35678 Upstream summary: Autobahn|Python before 20.12.3 allows redirect header injection. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 intermittent DNS resolution failures

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 February 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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How to Configure Docker Resource Limits on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Docker Resource Limits on Debian 10

Introduction Deploying configure docker resource limits on debian 10 on a Debian 10 Buster machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites Before you […]

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Debian 9 — dosbox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — dosbox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 February 2020 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-7165 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 Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Apache Virtual Hosts on Ubuntu 16.04

The Apache web server is the most popular way to serve web content on the internet. Apache has the ability to serve multiple domains from a single server by using a mechanism called “virtual hosts”. If a virtual host is configured correctly for each domain, the web server can correctly route traffic to the appropriate files based on the domain name requested. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to configure Apache virtual hosts on an Ubuntu 16.04 server.

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Ubuntu 14.04 — freeimage — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — freeimage — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 5 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6586-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12211 CVE-2019-12213 CVE-2020-21427 CVE-2020-21428 CVE-2020-22524 CVE-2016-5684 Upstream summary: It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted […]

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How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch 1.7, Logstash 1.5, and Kibana 4.1 (ELK Stack) on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elasticsearch ELK Stack on CentOS 7—that is, Elasticsearch 1.7.3, Logstash 1.5.4, and Kibana 4.1.1. We will also show you how to configure it to gather and visualize the syslogs of your systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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Ubuntu 14.04 — python-urllib3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — python-urllib3 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3990-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11236 Upstream summary: USN-3990-1 fixed a vulnerability in urllib3. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that urllib3 […]

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