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How To Set Up the code-server Cloud IDE Platform on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up the code-server Cloud IDE Platform on CentOS 7

In this tutorial, you will set up the code-server cloud IDE platform on your CentOS 7 machine and expose it at your domain, secured with free Let’s EncryptTLS certificates. In the end, you’ll have Microsoft Visual Studio Code running on your CentOS 7 server, available at your domain and protected with a password.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — icedtea-web — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — icedtea-web — multiple vulnerabilities (3 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-2019:1911-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-10181 CVE-2019-10185 CVE-2019-10182 Upstream summary: It was found that in icedtea-web up to and including 1.7.2 and 1.8.2 executable code could be injected in a […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — influxdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — influxdb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 November 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5451-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-20933 Upstream summary: Ilya Averyanov discovered that an InfluxDB vulnerability allowed attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to any known database user. Table of contents Symptom […]

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How To Install and Use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server

Tracking statistics is a great way to make informed decisions about your systems, servers, and applications. Graphite is a graphing library that can be used to render customized graphs for any kind of data that is send to it. In this guide, we’ll talk about how to install and use Graphite on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Cloud-Init Rewrites Network Configuration

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 November 2019 Affected versions: 16.04 LTS 📖 ~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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How to Set the Hostname and FQDN on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set the Hostname and FQDN on Debian 9

Introduction Deploying set the hostname and fqdn on debian 9 on a Debian 9 Stretch 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 You […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — logwatch — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2011:005 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1018 Upstream summary: logwatch.pl in Logwatch 7.3.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a log file name, as demonstrated via […]

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SLES 15 — perl-Archive-Zip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — perl-Archive-Zip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 November 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:2385-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-10860 Upstream summary: perl-archive-zip is vulnerable to a directory traversal in Archive::Zip. It was found that the Archive::Zip module did not properly sanitize paths while […]

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