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How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install an Apache, MySQL, and PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.0

A FAMP stack, which is similar to a LAMP stack on Linux, is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a FreeBSD server to host dynamic websites and web apps. FAMP is an acronym that stands for FreeBSD (operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (database server), and PHP (to process dynamic PHP content).

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-requests — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-requests — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-FU-2022:0444-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-1829 CVE-2014-1830 Upstream summary: Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected […]

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Gentoo Linux — app-emulation/virtualbox-bin — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — app-emulation/virtualbox-bin — multiple vulnerabilities (20 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-202004-02 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-2926 CVE-2019-2944 CVE-2019-2984 CVE-2019-3002 CVE-2019-3005 CVE-2019-3017 CVE-2019-3021 CVE-2019-3026  +12 more Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VirtualBox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table […]

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How To Use Foreman To Manage Puppet Nodes on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Foreman To Manage Puppet Nodes on Ubuntu 14.04

Foreman is an open-source tool that can help with the management of servers, by providing an easy way to interact with Puppet to automate tasks and application deployment. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Foreman with Puppet, and start using it to manage your servers. We will use Foreman for its reporting and External Node Classifier (ENC) capabilities, to ease the management of Puppet.

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SLES 15 — libXcursor1 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libXcursor1 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 7 September 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2003 CVE-2017-16612 Upstream summary: Integer overflow in X.org libXcursor 1.1.13 and earlier allows X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow […]

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Arch Linux — perl-email-address — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — perl-email-address — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201905-7 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-12558 Upstream summary: Type: denial of service. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.909-1. Fixed in: 1.912-1. Group: AVG-722. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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How to Harden Web Servers: Security Headers, CSP and HSTS on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden Web Servers: Security Headers, CSP and HSTS on RHEL 7

How to Harden Web Servers: Security Headers, CSP and HSTS on RHEL 7 HTTP security headers are one of the most cost-effective controls available to web server administrators. They instruct the browser to enforce strict content handling rules, preventing common attacks such as cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking, MIME-type confusion, and protocol downgrade attacks — without […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — platformsh-cli — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — platformsh-cli — 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-SU-2016:1842-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-5385 Upstream summary: PHP through 7.0.8 does not attempt to address RFC 3875 section 4.1.18 namespace conflicts and therefore does not protect applications from the […]

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