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How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up to date: zypper […]

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FreeBSD 13 — wgetpro — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 June 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: wget — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1487 CVE-2004-1488 Upstream summary: Jan Minar reports that there exists multiple vulnerabilities in wget: Wget erroneously thinks that the current directory is a fair […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-azure-5.3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — linux-azure-5.3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 June 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4465-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-12655 CVE-2020-12771 CVE-2020-15393 CVE-2020-24394 CVE-2019-16089 CVE-2019-19462 CVE-2019-20810 CVE-2019-20908  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that the XFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not […]

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

AlmaLinux 8 — openwsman — 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-2020:4689 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3833 Upstream summary: Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open source implementation of the Web Services Management specification (WS-Management) and to expose system management information on the […]

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How to Install Nomad on FreeBSD 13 — step-by-step FreeBSD 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Nomad on FreeBSD 13

Introduction How to Install Nomad 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, and […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 June 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4800-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-9179 CVE-2017-1000211 CVE-2021-38165 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Lynx incorrectly handled certain URLs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby3.1-rubygem-fluentd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby3.1-rubygem-fluentd — 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-2025:15115-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-41186 Upstream summary: Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files to help unify logging infrastructure. The parser_apache2 plugin in Fluentd […]

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IBM AIX 7.1 — CVE-2020-4937 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on IBM AIX 7.1

IBM AIX 7.1 — CVE-2020-4937 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 30–90 min  Last verified: 15 June 2021 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.1 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: NVD CVE-2020-4937, IBM Support Bulletin CVE: CVE-2020-4937 NVD summary: IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Standard Edition 5.2.0.0 through 6.0.3.2 uses weaker than expected cryptographic algorithms that could allow an attacker to decrypt highly sensitive […]

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