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How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack Integration on RHEL 9

Prometheus Alertmanager handles routing, deduplication, and delivery of alerts fired by Prometheus to external notification channels. On RHEL 9, integrating Alertmanager with PagerDuty and Slack allows teams to receive critical pages and contextual chat notifications from a single alert pipeline. This tutorial walks through downloading the Alertmanager binary, configuring a complete route tree, setting up […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — grub2 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — grub2 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023-2023-409 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4692 CVE-2023-4693 CVE-2021-3695 CVE-2021-3696 CVE-2021-3697 CVE-2021-3981 CVE-2022-2601 CVE-2022-28733  +12 more Upstream summary: An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in grub2's NTFS filesystem driver. This issue may allow […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — grub2-signed — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — grub2-signed — multiple vulnerabilities (13 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 May 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6410-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4692 CVE-2023-4693 CVE-2022-28737 CVE-2021-3695 CVE-2021-3696 CVE-2021-3697 CVE-2021-3981 CVE-2022-28733  +5 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that a specially crafted file system image could cause a heap-based out-of-bounds […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — grub2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — grub2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2024-2456)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 May 2024 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2024-2456 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4693 CVE-2024-1048 CVE-2023-4692 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification […]

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Alpine Linux 3.18 — u-boot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.18

Alpine Linux 3.18 — u-boot — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.18 / fixed in 2021.04-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — u-boot 2021.04-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-27097 CVE-2021-27138 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.18 ships u-boot 2021.04-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-27097. Table of contents Symptom & Impact […]

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Oracle Linux 9 — grub2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 9

Oracle Linux 9 — grub2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2024-0468)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 26 April 2024 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 9 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2024-0468 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4001 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 Configure iptables Firewall Rules on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure iptables Firewall Rules on RHEL 9

iptables has been the standard Linux packet-filtering firewall for over two decades, and while RHEL 9 ships with nftables and firewalld as the preferred tools, iptables remains available and is widely understood by seasoned administrators. Learning iptables gives you deep insight into how Linux netfilter works and is valuable for managing legacy systems or containers […]

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Alpine Linux 3.18 — grub — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.18

Alpine Linux 3.18 — grub — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.18 / fixed in 2.06-r12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — grub 2.06-r12 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3697 CVE-2021-3418 CVE-2020-10713 CVE-2020-14308 CVE-2020-14309 CVE-2020-14310 CVE-2020-14311 CVE-2020-14372  +9 more Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.18 ships grub 2.06-r12 which […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — booth — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — booth — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2024-2575 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-3049 CVE-2022-2553 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in Booth, a cluster ticket manager. If a specially-crafted hash is passed to gcry_md_get_algo_dlen(), it may allow an invalid […]

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How to Install Graylog for Centralised Log Management on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Graylog for Centralised Log Management on RHEL 9

Graylog is an open-source centralised log management platform that collects, indexes, and analyses log data from across your infrastructure in one place. On RHEL 9, deploying Graylog 5.x gives operations teams powerful search, alerting, and dashboarding capabilities without relying on cloud-based log services. Graylog depends on MongoDB for metadata storage and OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch) for […]

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