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FreeBSD 12 — py38-slixmpp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py38-slixmpp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 January 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Slixmpp — Lack of SSL Certificate hostname validation in XMLStream Related CVEs: CVE-2022-45197 Upstream summary: NIST reports: Slixmpp before 1.8.3 lacks SSL Certificate hostname validation in XMLStream, allowing an attacker […]

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How to Configure syslog on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure syslog on FreeBSD 12

Introduction Deploying configure syslog on freebsd 12 on a FreeBSD 12 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within the standard base + […]

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How to Configure Postfix Mail Server on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Postfix Mail Server on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure postfix mail server on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux […]

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FreeBSD 12 — mod_dav_svn-lts — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — mod_dav_svn-lts — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 January 2023 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Subversion — Multiple vulnerabilities in server code Related CVEs: CVE-2021-28544 CVE-2022-24070 Upstream summary: Subversion project reports: Subversion servers reveal 'copyfrom' paths that should be hidden according to configured path-based authorization […]

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How to Install PostgreSQL 16 on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install PostgreSQL 16 on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Install PostgreSQL 16 on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py38-treq — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py38-treq — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 December 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-treq — sensitive information leak vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2022-23607 Upstream summary: Treq's request methods (`treq.get`, `treq.post`, `HTTPClient.request`, `HTTPClient.get`, etc.) accept cookies as a dictionary. Such cookies are not bound to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — puppetdb — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — puppetdb — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 December 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: puppetdb — Potential SQL injection Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14060 CVE-2020-14061 CVE-2020-14062 CVE-2020-14195 CVE-2020-7943 CVE-2020-9548 CVE-2021-27021 CVE-2022-31197 Upstream summary: Puppet reports: The org.postgresql/postgresql driver has been updated to version 42.4.1 to address […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py39-treq — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py39-treq — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-treq — sensitive information leak vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2022-23607 Upstream summary: Treq's request methods (`treq.get`, `treq.post`, `HTTPClient.request`, `HTTPClient.get`, etc.) accept cookies as a dictionary. Such cookies are not bound to […]

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How to Install Perl on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Perl on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Install Perl on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, and […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-actionpack — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-actionpack — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 9 December 2022 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Rails — XSS vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2012-3424 CVE-2012-3463 CVE-2012-3464 CVE-2012-3465 CVE-2013-0155 CVE-2013-0156 CVE-2013-1854 CVE-2013-1856  +12 more Upstream summary: Ruby on Rails blog: This is an announcement to let you know […]

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