Logging Monitoring

Debian 9 — libgd2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — libgd2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 4 May 2020 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-6362 CVE-2017-7890 CVE-2019-6977 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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Arch Linux — dnsmasq — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — dnsmasq — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201710-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14496 CVE-2017-14495 CVE-2017-14494 CVE-2017-14493 CVE-2017-14492 CVE-2017-14491 CVE-2020-25687 CVE-2020-25686  +6 more Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 2.77-1. Fixed in: 2.78-1. Group: AVG-421. Table of contents […]

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How to Monitor MySQL with Prometheus mysqld_exporter on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor MySQL with Prometheus mysqld_exporter on RHEL 7

How to Monitor MySQL with Prometheus mysqld_exporter on RHEL 7 Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system that scrapes metrics from instrumented targets at regular intervals and stores them in a time-series database. For MySQL monitoring, the official mysqld_exporter binary exposes hundreds of MySQL performance schema metrics, InnoDB statistics, replication lag, and query throughput in the […]

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Debian 9 – Fail2ban blocks internal monitoring and trusted hosts

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 May 2020 Affected versions: Debian 9 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — ibus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — ibus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2020-1555 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14822 Upstream summary: A flaw was discovered in ibus that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user […]

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How to Configure AIDE File Integrity Monitoring on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure AIDE File Integrity Monitoring on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Configure AIDE File Integrity Monitoring 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 […]

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Common Problems 112494

Windows Server 2019 — Primary group SID anomaly stops member from inheriting Domain Users rights — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 May 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2019 📖 ~2 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py32-salt — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py32-salt — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 May 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: salt — multiple vulnerabilities in salt-master process Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1866 CVE-2016-3176 CVE-2017-12791 CVE-2017-14695 CVE-2017-14696 CVE-2018-15750 CVE-2018-15751 CVE-2019-17361  +2 more Upstream summary: F-Secure reports: CVE-2020-11651 – Authentication bypass vulnerabilities The ClearFuncs […]

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Gentoo Linux — net-misc/openslp — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — net-misc/openslp — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202005-12 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-17833 CVE-2019-5544 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSLP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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How to Set Up HTTPS Redirect in Apache2 on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up HTTPS Redirect in Apache2 on Debian 10

Introduction Debian 10 Buster is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up set up https redirect in apache2 on debian 10 on Buster leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Buster freeze. Follow each step […]

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