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Arch Linux — podofo — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — podofo — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202101-36 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9687 CVE-2019-9199 CVE-2018-5783 CVE-2018-20751 CVE-2018-19532 CVE-2018-14320 CVE-2018-12982 CVE-2018-11256  +3 more Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 0.9.6-3. Fixed in: 0.9.7-1. Group: AVG-867. Table of contents […]

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How To Write a Simple Shell Script on a VPS (Part 3) — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Write a Simple Shell Script on a VPS (Part 3)

In the third part of our Shell Script tutorial, you’ll learn all the “if’s” and “else’s” of bash, and how to use them to your advantage. Conditional statements are indispensable to any useful scripting and full-featured programming language.

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Ubuntu 14.04 — commons-beanutils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — commons-beanutils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 4 January 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4766-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0114 CVE-2019-10086 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Commons BeanUtils improperly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to cause a crash or […]

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SLES 15 — bsh2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — bsh2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 January 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:0699-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-2510 Upstream summary: BeanShell (bsh) before 2.0b6, when included on the classpath by an application that uses Java serialization or XStream, allows remote attackers to […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libXfont1 — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libXfont1 — multiple vulnerabilities (11 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-2014:0774-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0210 CVE-2014-0211 CVE-2011-2895 CVE-2013-6462 CVE-2014-0209 CVE-2015-1802 CVE-2015-1803 CVE-2015-1804  +3 more Upstream summary: Multiple buffer overflows in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.8 and 1.4.9x before 1.4.99.901 allow […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — thunderbird — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — thunderbird — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2019-1144)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 4 January 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2019-1144 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9788 CVE-2019-9813 CVE-2019-9792 CVE-2018-18506 CVE-2019-9791 CVE-2019-9793 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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How to Install and Configure Envoy Proxy on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Envoy Proxy on RHEL 8

Envoy Proxy is a high-performance, cloud-native Layer 7 proxy originally built at Lyft and now a CNCF graduated project. Unlike Nginx or HAProxy, Envoy is designed with dynamic configuration via xDS APIs and deep observability baked in, making it the proxy of choice for service meshes such as Istio. On RHEL 8 you can run […]

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