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How to Configure Prometheus AlertManager on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Prometheus AlertManager on RHEL 9

Prometheus AlertManager is a standalone component of the Prometheus monitoring stack responsible for deduplicating, grouping, routing, and dispatching alerts to notification channels such as Slack, email, and PagerDuty. While Prometheus evaluates alerting rules and fires alerts, it is AlertManager that decides who gets notified, when, and how — preventing alert storms and on-call fatigue through […]

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Debian 13 — kdenlive — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — kdenlive — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2026-45184 Upstream summary: Kdenlive before 26.04.1 allows dangerous proxy parameters when an attacker-controlled project file is used. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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Rocky Linux 9 — kernel — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Rocky Linux 9

Rocky Linux 9 — kernel — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Rocky Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Rocky Linux RXSA RXSA-2026:13565 Related CVEs: CVE-2026-23136 CVE-2026-23270 CVE-2026-31402 CVE-2026-31431 CVE-2026-43077 CVE-2026-43284 CVE-2025-39766 CVE-2025-68741  +12 more Upstream summary: The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security […]

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Debian 13 — log4cxx — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — log4cxx — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 13 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-31038 CVE-2025-54812 CVE-2025-54813 CVE-2026-40023 Upstream summary: SQL injection in Log4cxx when using the ODBC appender to send log messages to a database.  No fields sent to the database […]

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Debian 13 — yt-dlp — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — yt-dlp — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 13 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2023-35934 CVE-2023-46121 CVE-2024-38519 CVE-2026-26331 Upstream summary: yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from video sites. During file downloads, yt-dlp or the external downloaders that yt-dlp employs […]

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Debian 11 — starman — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — starman — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2026-40560 Upstream summary: Starman versions before 0.4018 for Perl allows HTTP Request Smuggling via Improper Header Precedence. Starman incorrectly prioritizes "Content-Length" over "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" when both headers are […]

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Rocky Linux 8 — perl-HTTP-Tiny — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Rocky Linux 8

Rocky Linux 8 — perl-HTTP-Tiny — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Rocky Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Rocky Linux RXSA RLSA-2026:8096 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-40909 Upstream summary: Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming. Security Fix(es): * perl: Perl threads have […]

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Debian 13 — libemail-address-list-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — libemail-address-list-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2014-1474 CVE-2018-18898 Upstream summary: Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Email::Address::List before 0.02, as used in RT 4.2.0 through 4.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU […]

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How to Configure XFS Filesystem on RHEL 10 — step-by-step RHEL 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure XFS Filesystem on RHEL 10

Introduction How to Configure XFS Filesystem on RHEL 10 on RHEL 10 provides administrators with a robust, enterprise-ready workflow that integrates cleanly with systemd, SELinux, firewalld, and the modern AppStream module system. In this tutorial we will walk through every step required, from package installation to verification, so that the resulting configuration is reproducible and […]

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Debian 13 — git-extras — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — git-extras — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 March 2026 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2012-6114 Upstream summary: The git-changelog utility in git-extras 1.7.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/changelog or (2) /tmp/.git-effort. Table of […]

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