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IBM AIX 7.3 — CVE-2008-0587 — buffer overflow — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.3

IBM AIX 7.3 — CVE-2008-0587 — buffer overflow — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 30–90 min  Last verified: 14 December 2021 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.3 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2008-0587, IBM Support Bulletin CVE: CVE-2008-0587 NVD summary: Buffer overflow in the uspchrp program in devices.chrp.base.diag in IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors. References: […]

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How to Configure Disk Quotas on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Disk Quotas on FreeBSD 13 (ON-FREEBSD-13)

Introduction How to Configure Disk Quotas on FreeBSD 13 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 13 server operator. FreeBSD 13 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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Rocky Linux 8 — mingw-binutils — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Rocky Linux 8

Rocky Linux 8 — mingw-binutils — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — 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-2021:1968 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16168 CVE-2020-13434 CVE-2020-13630 CVE-2020-13631 CVE-2020-13632 Upstream summary: MinGW is a free and open source software development environment to create Microsoft Windows applications. The following packages have been […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — libmspack — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — libmspack — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2020-1686)

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-1686 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-1010305 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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AlmaLinux 8 — python-pycurl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — python-pycurl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2020:1745 Upstream summary: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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How to Set Up a Firewall with firewalld on CentOS Stream 9 — step-by-step CentOS Stream 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Firewall with firewalld on CentOS Stream 9

Introduction Setting up set up a firewall with firewalld on centos stream 9 on a CentOS Stream 9 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Set Up a Firewall with firewalld on CentOS Stream 9, with all the commands you need, the SELinux […]

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FreeBSD 13 — sogo — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — sogo — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: SOGo — SAML user authentication impersonation Related CVEs: CVE-2021-33054 Upstream summary: sogo.nu reports: SOGo was not validating the signatures of any SAML assertions it received. This means any actor with […]

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FreeBSD 13 — py310-Flask-Cors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — py310-Flask-Cors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-Flask-Cors — directory traversal vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25032 Upstream summary: praetorian-colby-morgan reports: An issue was discovered in Flask-CORS (aka CORS Middleware for Flask) before 3.0.9. It allows ../ directory traversal […]

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FreeBSD 13 — ru-wordpress-ru_RU — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ru-wordpress-ru_RU — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: wordpress — XSS Upstream summary: The WordPress team reports: A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Avatar block type Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting on FreeBSD 13

Introduction Deploying configure nginx rate limiting on freebsd 13 on a FreeBSD 13 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 […]

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