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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rpcbind — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-2017:1381-1 (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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Gentoo Linux — net-analyzer/arpwatch — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — net-analyzer/arpwatch — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202007-25 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Gentoo’s arpwatch ebuild made excessive permission operations on its data directories, possibly changing ownership of unintended files. This only affects OpenRC systems, as the flaw […]

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How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8

cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is an open-source daemon from Google that collects, aggregates, and exports real-time resource usage and performance metrics for every running container on a host. Unlike Node Exporter, which reports host-level statistics, cAdvisor descends into cgroup hierarchies to expose per-container CPU, memory, network, and filesystem metrics in Prometheus format. On RHEL 8 with […]

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SLES 15 — libXinerama1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libXinerama1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 29 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1103-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-1985 Upstream summary: Integer overflow in X.org libXinerama 1.1.2 and earlier allows X servers to trigger allocation of insufficient memory and a buffer overflow via […]

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SLES 15 — libSoundTouch0 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libSoundTouch0 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 29 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2018:3068-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000223 CVE-2018-17096 CVE-2018-17097 CVE-2018-17098 Upstream summary: soundtouch version up to and including 2.0.0 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SoundStretch/WavFile.cpp:WavInFile::readHeaderBlock() that can result in arbitrary […]

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How to Install 7Zip on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install 7Zip on Ubuntu 18.04

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/install-7zip-ubuntu/ If you’ve ever tried to send large files then you would definitely know about 7Zip. From almost 2 decades now, 7Zip allowed us to get a higher compression ratio. Apart from getting high compression ratio, you can get support for extracting and compressing RAR files on Ubuntu with 7Zip. Apart from the GUI, […]

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How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Scale Django: Finding the Bottleneck

Once an app has been deployed and more and more people begin using it, it won’t be long before you begin to notice it slowing down. This is a common problem, and in this tutorial we will go over some tools that work with Django which can help to alleviate this issue.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — rubygem-puppet — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rubygem-puppet — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-3848 CVE-2011-3872 CVE-2012-3864 CVE-2012-3865 CVE-2012-3866 CVE-2013-3567 CVE-2013-4761 CVE-2014-3253  +2 more Upstream summary: Directory traversal vulnerability in Puppet 2.6.x before 2.6.10 and 2.7.x before 2.7.4 allows […]

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How To Install the Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 18.04 [Quickstart] — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install the Apache Web Server on Ubuntu 18.04 [Quickstart]

The Apache HTTP server is the most widely-used web server in the world. It provides many powerful features, including dynamically loadable modules, robust media support, and extensive integration with other popular software. In this guide, we’ll explain how to install an Apache web server on your Ubuntu 18.04 server.

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