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How to Install and Configure OpenLiteSpeed Web Server on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure OpenLiteSpeed Web Server on RHEL 7

How to Install and Configure OpenLiteSpeed Web Server on RHEL 7 OpenLiteSpeed is the open-source edition of LiteSpeed Web Server, one of the fastest web servers available for Linux. It is event-driven, capable of handling tens of thousands of concurrent connections with minimal memory, and includes native support for PHP via LSAPI — an interface […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — openjdk-7 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — openjdk-7 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 2 December 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3942-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-2422 CVE-2018-3136 CVE-2018-3139 CVE-2018-3149 CVE-2018-3169 CVE-2018-3180 CVE-2018-2952 CVE-2018-2790  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that a memory disclosure issue existed in the OpenJDK Library subsystem. An […]

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How to Encrypt Disk Partitions with LUKS on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Encrypt Disk Partitions with LUKS on RHEL 8

Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is the standard disk encryption layer on RHEL 8, built on the dm-crypt kernel module and managed through the cryptsetup utility. Encrypting partitions with LUKS ensures that data is unreadable without the correct passphrase or key file, even if physical media is stolen or a drive is decommissioned without secure […]

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Arch Linux — postgresql-old-upgrade — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — postgresql-old-upgrade — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-201711-18 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-15099 CVE-2017-15098 Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 9.6.5-1. Fixed in: 9.6.6-1. Group: AVG-486. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — calamares — 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-2019:2628-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-13178 Upstream summary: modules/luksbootkeyfile/main.py in Calamares versions 3.1 through 3.2.10 has a race condition between the time when the LUKS encryption keyfile is created and […]

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How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 7

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 7 Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, and message broker. For production environments requiring high availability and horizontal scalability, Redis offers two complementary mechanisms: Redis Cluster for automatic data sharding across multiple nodes, and Redis Sentinel for automatic failover of […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libtomcrypt1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libtomcrypt1 — 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-2018-12437 Upstream summary: LibTomCrypt through 1.18.1 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To […]

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