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openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-Tk — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — perl-Tk — 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-SA:2006:052 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4484 Upstream summary: Buffer overflow in the LWZReadByte_ function in ext/gd/libgd/gd_gif_in.c in the GD extension in PHP before 5.1.5 allows remote attackers to have an […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — file — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — file — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 21 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4172-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18218 CVE-2014-9620 CVE-2014-9621 CVE-2014-9653 CVE-2015-8865 CVE-2018-10360 CVE-2014-3710 CVE-2014-8116  +9 more Upstream summary: USN-4172-1 fixed a vulnerability in file. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 […]

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How To Setup Red5 on Ubuntu 12.10 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Setup Red5 on Ubuntu 12.10

Red5 is a popular program written in Java that lets you stream audio/video files, record streams, and support various protocols. Here’s how to set it up on Ubuntu 12.10.

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Oracle Linux 8 — rsync — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — rsync — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-2201)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 21 September 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-2201 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-25032 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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How To Install Drupal on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server with Apache — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Drupal on an Ubuntu 14.04 Server with Apache

Drupal is a popular content management system that powers some of the biggest sites on the internet. In this guide, we’ll show you how to get Drupal installed on your Ubuntu 14.04 server. We will install the Drupal application on top of the Apache, the recommended web server for Drupal.

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How To Add the log Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Add the log Module to Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

In this guide, we will look at how to utilize Nginx’s logging module. We’ll set up separate log files for different server blocks and then customize the logging output. We’ll also add additional information about requests (in this tutorial’s example, the time it takes to serve a request) to the access log beyond what Nginx includes by default.

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How to Install .NET SDK and Runtime on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install .NET SDK and Runtime on RHEL 7

How to Install .NET SDK and Runtime on RHEL 7 The .NET platform from Microsoft is an open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern web applications, APIs, command-line tools, microservices, and more. Since .NET Core 3.x and the subsequent unified .NET 5+ releases, Linux has been a first-class deployment target — and Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]

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Debian 9: Network outage from ifupdown and NetworkManager conflict

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 20 September 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 📖 ~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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS rsyslog stops ingesting logs after disk saturation

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 20 September 2019 Affected versions: 14.04 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs […]

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