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Common Problems 115509

RHEL 7 XFS remounted read-only after detected filesystem errors

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 31 December 2019 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~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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Common Problems 115121

RHEL 8 Dracut Drops to Emergency Shell After Initramfs Issue

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 31 December 2019 Affected versions: 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 📖 ~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 & […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rkhunter — 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-2008-4982 Upstream summary: rkhunter in rkhunter 1.3.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/rkhunter-debug temporary file. NOTE: this […]

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Gentoo Linux — dev-java/svgsalamander — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — dev-java/svgsalamander — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202003-11 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-5617 Upstream summary: A Server-Side Request Forgery was discovered in SVG Salamander. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution […]

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Alpine Linux edge — file — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — file — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 5.37-r1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — file 5.37-r1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18218 CVE-2019-1543 CVE-2019-8904 CVE-2019-8905 CVE-2019-8906 CVE-2019-8907 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships file 5.37-r1 which addresses CVE-2019-18218. Table of […]

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How To Set Up Shiny Server on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Shiny Server on Ubuntu 14.04

[Shiny](http://shiny.rstudio.com/) is an R package that allows users to convert R code into an interactive webpage. [Shiny server](http://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/shiny-server/) is a server provided by RStudio that can be used to host and manage Shiny applications on the web. Other than hosting Shiny applications, Shiny Server can also host [interactive R markdown documents](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/). In this guide, we will learn how to set up the open source Shiny Server on a Dig

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Arch Linux — ntp — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — ntp — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201803-11 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-7185 CVE-2018-7184 CVE-2018-7183 CVE-2018-7182 CVE-2018-7170 CVE-2016-1549 CVE-2016-9311 CVE-2016-9310  +8 more Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 4.2.8.p10-1. Fixed in: 4.2.8.p11-1. Group: AVG-647. Table of contents […]

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SLES 15 — ruby2.5-rubygem-activejob — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — ruby2.5-rubygem-activejob — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 31 December 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-RU-2019:1820-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16476 Upstream summary: A Broken Access Control vulnerability in Active Job versions >= 4.2.0 allows an attacker to craft user input which can cause Active […]

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