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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.2-rubygem-extlib — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.2-rubygem-extlib — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2013:0278-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-0156 Upstream summary: active_support/core_ext/hash/conversions.rb in Ruby on Rails before 2.3.15, 3.0.x before 3.0.19, 3.1.x before 3.1.10, and 3.2.x before 3.2.11 does not properly restrict casts […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — tidy-html — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tidy — heap-buffer-overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2015-5522 CVE-2015-5523 Upstream summary: Geoff McLane reports: tidy is affected by a write out of bounds when processing malformed html files. This issue could be […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — rekonq — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: kdelibs4, rekonq — input validation failure Related CVEs: CVE-2011-3365 CVE-2011-3366 Upstream summary: KDE Security Advisory reports: The default rendering type for a QLabel is QLabel::AutoText, which uses heuristics to determine […]

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How to Configure Nginx as a TCP/UDP Load Balancer on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx as a TCP/UDP Load Balancer on Debian 10 (ON-DEBIAN-10)

Introduction Deploying configure nginx as a tcp/udp load balancer on debian 10 on a Debian 10 Buster machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. […]

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FreeBSD 12 — gdal — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — gdal — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tiff — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0803 CVE-2004-0804 CVE-2004-0886 CVE-2004-1308 CVE-2005-1544 Upstream summary: A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered […]

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FreeBSD 12 — openoffice.org-2-RC — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — openoffice.org-2-RC — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: openoffice — arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2008-2237 CVE-2008-2238 Upstream summary: The OpenOffice Team reports: A security vulnerability with the way OpenOffice 2.x process WMF files may allow a […]

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Arch Linux — ffmpeg — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — ffmpeg — multiple vulnerabilities (16 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-201702-10 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-5025 CVE-2017-5024 CVE-2020-13904 CVE-2020-35964 CVE-2017-14225 CVE-2017-14223 CVE-2017-14222 CVE-2017-14171  +8 more Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1:3.2.3-1. Fixed in: 1:3.2.4-1. Group: AVG-172. Table of […]

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Windows Server 2019 — LDAP search timeout when querying large groups via PowerShell — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 April 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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Alpine Linux edge — slock — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — slock — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.3-r3 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — slock 1.3-r3 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6866 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships slock 1.3-r3 which addresses CVE-2016-6866. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — nspluginwrapper — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — nspluginwrapper — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2011-2486 Upstream summary: nspluginwrapper before 1.4.4 does not properly provide access to NPNVprivateModeBool variable settings, which could prevent Firefox plugins from determining if they should […]

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