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How to Set Up HAProxy Load Balancer on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up HAProxy Load Balancer on Debian 9

Introduction How to Set Up HAProxy Load Balancer on Debian 9 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 9 Stretch server. Debian 9 Stretch 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 […]

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FreeBSD 12 — yamt — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — yamt — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: yamt — buffer overflow and directory traversal issues Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1302 CVE-2005-1846 CVE-2005-1847 Upstream summary: Stanislav Brabec discovered errors in yamt's path name handling that lead to buffer overflows and […]

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FreeBSD 12 — apache13-modperl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — apache13-modperl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: apache — heap overflow in mod_proxy Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0492 Upstream summary: A buffer overflow exists in mod_proxy which may allow an attacker to launch local DoS attacks and possibly execute […]

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How to Set the Hostname and FQDN on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set the Hostname and FQDN on Debian 10

Introduction Deploying set the hostname and fqdn 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. Prerequisites Ensure […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — velocity — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — velocity — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6281-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13936 Upstream summary: Alvaro Munoz discovered that Velocity Engine incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted […]

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SLES 12 — libdlm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — libdlm — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 February 2020 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2019:1791-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12779 Upstream summary: libqb before 1.0.5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack, because it uses predictable filenames (under /dev/shm and […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ldns — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ldns — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2020:0438-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-1000231 CVE-2020-19860 CVE-2020-19861 CVE-2011-3581 Upstream summary: A double-free vulnerability in parse.c in ldns 1.7.0 have unspecified impact and attack vectors. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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How to Configure Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2016 — step-by-step Windows Server 2016 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Data Deduplication on Windows Server 2016

How to Configure Windows Server 2016 Data Deduplication Data Deduplication, also known as Dedup, is a Windows Server feature that reduces storage consumption by eliminating redundant data on a volume. It identifies duplicate chunks across files and stores only one copy of each unique chunk, replacing duplicates with references to the stored chunk. Windows Server […]

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Debian 10 – Conflicting Time Services Cause Unstable Sync – Single Authority Model

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 16 February 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 📖 ~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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How to Tune Kernel Parameters with sysctl on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Tune Kernel Parameters with sysctl on Debian 10

Introduction Deploying tune kernel parameters with sysctl 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. Prerequisites Before […]

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