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

AlmaLinux 8 — libXau — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALEA-2020:4742 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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FreeBSD 13 — pivotx — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — pivotx — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pivotx — Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2011-1035 CVE-2012-2274 CVE-2014-0341 Upstream summary: Pivotx reports: Multiple unrestricted file upload vulnerabilities in fileupload.php in PivotX before 2.3.9 allow remote authenticated […]

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FreeBSD 13 — sdl2_image — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — sdl2_image — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: SDL2_image — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2019-5051 CVE-2019-5052 CVE-2019-5057 CVE-2019-5058 CVE-2019-5059 CVE-2019-5060 Upstream summary: SDL_image developers report: Fixed a number of security issues: TALOS-2019-0820 TALOS-2019-0821 TALOS-2019-0841 TALOS-2019-0842 TALOS-2019-0843 TALOS-2019-0844 Table […]

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FreeBSD 13 — ncurses — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ncurses — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ncurses — multiple issues Related CVEs: CVE-2017-13728 CVE-2017-13729 CVE-2017-13730 CVE-2017-13731 CVE-2017-13732 CVE-2017-13733 CVE-2017-13734 Upstream summary: ncurses developers reports: There are multiple illegal address access issues and an infinite loop issue. […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — spirv-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — spirv-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALEA-2022:1962 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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FreeBSD 13 — ghostscript9-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — ghostscript9-nox — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ghostscript — denial of service (crash) via crafted Postscript files Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3228 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: Integer overflow in the gs_heap_alloc_bytes function in base/gsmalloc.c in Ghostscript 9.15 and earlier […]

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

FreeBSD 13 — vim+ruby — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: vim — vulnerabilities in modeline handling: glob, expand Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1138 CVE-2005-2368 Upstream summary: Georgi Guninski discovered a way to construct Vim modelines that execute arbitrary shell commands. The vulnerability […]

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How to Set Up Loki and Promtail for Log Aggregation on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Loki and Promtail for Log Aggregation on RHEL 8

Loki is a horizontally scalable, highly available log aggregation system designed by Grafana Labs to index only metadata rather than full log content, making it extremely cost-efficient compared to Elasticsearch-based stacks. Promtail is the companion agent that tails local log files, attaches labels, and ships entries to Loki over HTTP. In this tutorial you will […]

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Alpine Linux edge — opensmtpd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 6.6.2p1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — opensmtpd 6.6.2p1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-7247 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships opensmtpd 6.6.2p1-r0 which addresses CVE-2020-7247. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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FreeBSD 13 — kaffeine — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — kaffeine — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: kaffeine — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2006-0051 Upstream summary: The KDE team reports: Kaffeine can produce a buffer overflow in http_peek() while creating HTTP request headers for fetching remote […]

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