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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — mailman — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — 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:2011:007 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-0707 CVE-2015-2775 CVE-2016-6893 Upstream summary: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Cgi/confirm.py in GNU Mailman 2.1.14 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — mercurial — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5102-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3902 CVE-2018-17983 Upstream summary: USN-5102-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mercurial. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — bzip2 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — 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:2008:011 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2008-1372 CVE-2010-0405 CVE-2019-12900 CVE-2016-3189 Upstream summary: bzlib.c in bzip2 before 1.0.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted […]

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SLES 15 — librrd8 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — librrd8 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 September 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:0103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2131 Upstream summary: Format string vulnerability in the rrdtool module 1.4.7 for Python, as used in Zenoss, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of […]

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Gentoo Linux — net-misc/ssvnc — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — net-misc/ssvnc — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202006-06 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20020 CVE-2018-20021 CVE-2018-20022 CVE-2018-20024 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ssvnc. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libraw15 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libraw15 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2017:2300-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8367 CVE-2013-2126 CVE-2013-2127 Upstream summary: The phase_one_correct function in Libraw before 0.17.1 allows attackers to cause memory errors and possibly execute arbitrary code, related to […]

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How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Logrotate for Application Logs on RHEL 8

Logrotate is the standard log rotation utility on RHEL 8, responsible for automatically compressing, archiving, and pruning log files before they consume excessive disk space. Without it, long-running applications like NGINX, custom services, and Java applications can silently fill a filesystem partition and cause outages. Logrotate ships with RHEL 8 and is already configured for […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — python-psutil — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — python-psutil — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4204-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18874 Upstream summary: Riccardo Schirone discovered that psutil incorrectly handled certain reference counting operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause psutil to crash, resulting in […]

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How To Monitor Nagios Alerts with Alerta on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Nagios Alerts with Alerta on Ubuntu 16.04

Alerta is a web application used to consolidate and de-duplicate alerts from multiple monitoring systems and visualize them on a single screen. Alerta can integrate with many well-known monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, InfluxData Kapacitor, and…

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