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AlmaLinux 8 — graphviz — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — graphviz — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2021:4256 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-18032 Upstream summary: Graphviz is open-source graph-visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — gif2apng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — gif2apng — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 6 November 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5969-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-45909 CVE-2021-45910 CVE-2021-45911 Upstream summary: It was discovered that gif2apng contained multiple heap-base overflows. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service (system […]

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How to Configure Nginx Load Balancing on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Load Balancing on RHEL 8

Load balancing distributes incoming client requests across multiple backend servers, preventing any single server from becoming a bottleneck and improving both throughput and fault tolerance. Nginx’s built-in load balancing is highly capable and available in the open-source version without any additional modules for most common use cases. On RHEL 8, you can configure Nginx to […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — pacemaker — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2019-1279)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 5 November 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2019-1279 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16878 CVE-2018-16877 CVE-2019-3885 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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – filesystem remounts read-only after I/O errors – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 November 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 📖 ~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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AlmaLinux 8 — vala — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — vala — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2021:1586 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-13012 CVE-2020-13543 CVE-2020-13584 CVE-2020-16125 CVE-2020-9948 CVE-2020-9951 CVE-2020-9983 CVE-2021-1817  +9 more Upstream summary: GNOME is the default desktop environment of AlmaLinux. The following packages have been upgraded to a later […]

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How to Mount NFS Shares on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Mount NFS Shares on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Mount NFS Shares 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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Common Problems 117472

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – initramfs drops to BusyBox with UUID not found – Fix & Prevention

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 November 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 📖 ~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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FreeBSD 13 — anubis — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — anubis — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 November 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: GNU Anubis buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0353 CVE-2004-0354 Upstream summary: Ulf Härnhammar discovered several vulnerabilities in GNU Anubis. Unsafe uses of `sscanf'. The `%s' format specifier […]

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How to Use Windows PowerShell for Server Inventory on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Windows PowerShell for Server Inventory on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Build PowerShell Script Modules on Windows Server 2012 R2 PowerShell script modules are the standard packaging mechanism for distributing reusable functions, workflows, and cmdlets within an organization. A script module is simply a .psm1 file — a PowerShell script that defines functions and controls which of them are exported for use by consumers […]

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