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

Ubuntu 18.04 — ant — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 26 May 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4874-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-1945 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Ant created temporary files with insecure permissions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to read sensitive information leaked into […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — exiv2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — exiv2 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-3152)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 26 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-3152 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-31291 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Arch Linux — kube-apiserver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — kube-apiserver — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202106-29 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-25737 Upstream summary: Type: insufficient validation. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.21.0-1. Fixed in: 1.21.1-1. Group: AVG-1970. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — ipmitool — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — ipmitool — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-0981)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 26 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-0981 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-5208 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Debian 10 — ghostscript — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — ghostscript — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 26 May 2021 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-10216 CVE-2019-14811 CVE-2019-14869 CVE-2020-16287 CVE-2021-45944 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — dnsmasq — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2021-4153)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-4153 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3448 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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RHEL 8 SSH login is slow due to DNS and GSSAPI timeouts

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2021 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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

AlmaLinux 8 — brltty — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALBA-2021:1765 Upstream summary: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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How to Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt 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: […]

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