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SLES 15 — libcmis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libcmis — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 March 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:3313-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9853 Upstream summary: LibreOffice documents can contain macros. The execution of those macros is controlled by the document security settings, typically execution of macros are […]

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Gentoo Linux — sys-apps/shadow — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — sys-apps/shadow — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202008-09 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19882 CVE-2013-4235 Upstream summary: When Shadow was installed with the PAM use flag, setuid binaries provided by Shadow were not properly restricted. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Create and Manage Swap Space on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Create and Manage Swap Space on RHEL 8

Swap space gives the Linux kernel an overflow area on disk when physical RAM is fully utilized, preventing out-of-memory crashes on memory-constrained servers. On RHEL 8, swap can be implemented as a dedicated partition or as a swap file — the latter being more flexible since it can be created, resized, and removed without repartitioning […]

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Windows Server 2016 – Kernel nonpaged pool leak from third-party driver – Fix and Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 March 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~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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Alpine Linux edge — rpcbind — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 0.2.4-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — rpcbind 0.2.4-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8779 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships rpcbind 0.2.4-r0 which addresses CVE-2017-8779. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: mc — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2003-1023 CVE-2004-0226 CVE-2004-0231 CVE-2004-0232 CVE-2004-0494 CVE-2004-1004 CVE-2004-1005 CVE-2004-1009  +4 more Upstream summary: Andrew V. Samoilov reported several vulnerabilities that were corrected in MidnightCommand 4.6.0: […]

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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication with Google Authenticator on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication with Google Authenticator on Debian 10

Introduction How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication with Google Authenticator on Debian 10 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 10 Buster server. Debian 10 Buster 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 […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py37-beaker — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py37-beaker — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: py-beaker — arbitrary code execution vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7489 Upstream summary: matheusbrat reports: The Beaker library through 1.12.1 for Python is affected by deserialization of untrusted data, which could lead […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — junit4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — junit4 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 March 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4731-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15250 Upstream summary: It was discovered that JUnit 4 contains a local information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. Table […]

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Gentoo Linux — media-gfx/graphviz — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — media-gfx/graphviz — 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-202107-04 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9904 CVE-2020-18032 Upstream summary: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Graphviz. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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