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Debian 13 — kio-extras — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — kio-extras — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19120 CVE-2020-12755 Upstream summary: The HTML thumbnailer plugin in KDE Applications before 18.12.0 allows attackers to trigger outbound TCP connections to arbitrary IP addresses, leading to disclosure of […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — nsight-compute-2025.2.0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — nsight-compute-2025.2.0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2023 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2023NVIDIA-2025-077 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-23247 Upstream summary: NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the cuobjdump binary, where a failure to check the length of a buffer could […]

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Debian 13 — mingw-w64 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — mingw-w64 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000101 CVE-2018-5392 Upstream summary: Mingw-w64 version 5.0.3 and earlier, 5.0.4, 6.0.0 and 7.0.0 contains an Improper Null Termination (CWE-170) vulnerability in mingw-w64-crt (libc)->(v)snprintf that can result in The […]

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Amazon Linux 2023 — cuda-toolkit-13-1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2023

Amazon Linux 2023 — cuda-toolkit-13-1 — vulnerability — 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 ALAS2023NVIDIA-2026-276 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-33228 Upstream summary: NVIDIA Nsight Systems contains a vulnerability in the gfx_hotspot recipe, where an attacker could cause an OS command injection by supplying a malicious string […]

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Debian 11 — pam-pkcs11 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 11

Debian 11 — pam-pkcs11 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 11 (bullseye) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2025-24031 CVE-2025-24032 Upstream summary: PAM-PKCS#11 is a Linux-PAM login module that allows a X.509 certificate based user login. In versions 0.6.12 and prior, the pam_pkcs11 module segfaults when […]

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How to Configure IPv6 Networking on Debian 13 — step-by-step Debian 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure IPv6 Networking on Debian 13

Introduction How to Configure IPv6 Networking on Debian 13 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 13 Trixie server. Debian 13 Trixie ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 12. This […]

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Alpine Linux 3.20 — procps-ng — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.20 — procps-ng — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.20 / fixed in 4.0.4-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — procps-ng 4.0.4-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-4016 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vv3.20 ships procps-ng 4.0.4-r0 which addresses CVE-2023-4016. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Perform a System Security Audit with auditd on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Perform a System Security Audit with auditd on RHEL 9

Security auditing is the practice of recording and reviewing system calls, file accesses, user actions, and configuration changes to detect policy violations, investigate incidents, and demonstrate compliance with standards like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2. On RHEL 9, the Linux Audit Framework — provided by the auditd daemon — captures events at the kernel […]

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

Debian 13 — dvipng — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 November 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2010-0829 Upstream summary: Multiple array index errors in set.c in dvipng 1.11 and 1.12, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or […]

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Alpine Linux 3.20 — libass — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux 3.20

Alpine Linux 3.20 — libass — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux 3.20 / fixed in 0.13.4-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — libass 0.13.4-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-7969 CVE-2016-7970 CVE-2016-7971 CVE-2016-7972 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vv3.20 ships libass 0.13.4-r0 which addresses CVE-2016-7969. Table of contents Symptom […]

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