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SLES 15 — oddjob — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — oddjob — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 June 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-10737 Upstream summary: A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during […]

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Arch Linux — irssi — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — irssi — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201707-13 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-10966 CVE-2017-10965 CVE-2019-15717 CVE-2019-13045 CVE-2018-7054 CVE-2018-7053 CVE-2018-7052 CVE-2018-7051  +12 more Upstream summary: Type: multiple issues. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.0.3-1. Fixed in: 1.0.4-1. Group: AVG-342. Table of contents […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — go-toolset:ol8 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — go-toolset:ol8 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-3665)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 10 June 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-3665 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15586 CVE-2020-14040 CVE-2020-16845 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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How to Configure MariaDB Galera Cluster on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure MariaDB Galera Cluster on RHEL 8

MariaDB Galera Cluster is a synchronous multi-primary replication solution that allows writes to be accepted by any node in the cluster simultaneously. Unlike standard MySQL asynchronous replication, Galera ensures that a transaction is committed on all nodes before it is acknowledged to the application, eliminating replication lag and the risk of data loss during failover. […]

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Debian 10: unattended-upgrades stuck and blocking apt

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 9 June 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-security — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-security — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3700 Upstream summary: yast2-security didn't use secure defaults to protect passwords. This became a problem on 2019-10-07 when configuration files that set secure settings were […]

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How to Monitor ZFS Pool Health on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor ZFS Pool Health on FreeBSD 12

Introduction This guide explains how to Monitor ZFS Pool Health on FreeBSD 12 on FreeBSD 12. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for fine-grained […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php72-exif — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php72-exif — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: PHP — Multiple vulnerabilities in EXIF module Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11034 CVE-2019-11035 Upstream summary: The PHP project reports: Heap-buffer-overflow in php_ifd_get32s (CVE-2019-11034) Heap-buffer-overflow in exif_iif_add_value (CVE-2019-11035) Table of contents Symptom & […]

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