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Alpine Linux edge — freeimage — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — freeimage — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 3.18.0-r2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — freeimage 3.18.0-r2 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12211 CVE-2019-12213 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships freeimage 3.18.0-r2 which addresses CVE-2019-12211. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — lightdm — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — lightdm — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-3349 CVE-2011-3153 CVE-2011-4105 CVE-2012-1111 Upstream summary: lightdm before 0.9.6 writes in .dmrc and Xauthority files using root permissions while the files are in user controlled […]

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How to Install Certbot and Automate Let's Encrypt Renewals on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Certbot and Automate Let’s Encrypt Renewals on RHEL 7

How to Install Certbot and Automate Let’s Encrypt Renewals on RHEL 7 Securing your web server with a trusted TLS certificate is no longer optional — it is a baseline requirement for any production site. Let’s Encrypt provides free, automated, and domain-validated certificates, and Certbot is the official command-line client that manages the entire lifecycle: […]

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SLES 15 — rpcbind — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — rpcbind — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 9 November 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:1306-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8779 CVE-2015-7236 Upstream summary: rpcbind through 0.2.4, LIBTIRPC through 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-rc through 1.0.2-rc3, and NTIRPC through 1.4.3 do not consider the maximum RPC data […]

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SLES 15 — collectd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — collectd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 9 November 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2187-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6254 CVE-2017-7401 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — plexus-archiver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — plexus-archiver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2018-1043 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1002200 Upstream summary: A path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in plexus-archiver when extracting a carefully crafted zip file which holds path traversal file names. A remote […]

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Debian 10 — libvpx — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — libvpx — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 8 November 2019 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9232 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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