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How to Configure Kubernetes Ingress Controller on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Kubernetes Ingress Controller on Debian 10

Introduction How to Configure Kubernetes Ingress Controller on Debian 10 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 10 Buster server. Debian 10 Buster ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian 10. […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — foomatic-filters — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: cups-filters — code execution Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8327 CVE-2015-8560 Upstream summary: Till Kamppeter reports: Cups Filters/Foomatic Filters does not consider semicolon as an illegal escape character. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php4-mbstring — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php4-mbstring — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php-mbstring — php mbstring buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2008-5557 Upstream summary: SecurityFocus reports: PHP is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because it fails to perform boundary checks before copying […]

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FreeBSD 12 — squirrelmail — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — squirrelmail — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: SquirrelMail — post-authentication access privileges Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1036 CVE-2005-0075 CVE-2005-0103 CVE-2005-0104 CVE-2005-1769 CVE-2005-2095 CVE-2006-0188 CVE-2006-0195  +6 more Upstream summary: Florian Grunow reports: An attacker able to exploit this vulnerability can […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 2.29-r5 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — thttpd 2.29-r5 Related CVEs: CVE-2012-5640 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships thttpd 2.29-r5 which addresses CVE-2012-5640. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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FreeBSD 12 — nvidia-driver — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — nvidia-driver — multiple vulnerabilities (15 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: NVIDIA UNIX driver — multiple vulnerabilities in the kernel mode layer handler Related CVEs: CVE-2006-5379 CVE-2012-0946 CVE-2012-4225 CVE-2013-0131 CVE-2014-8093 CVE-2014-8098 CVE-2014-8298 CVE-2017-0309  +7 more Upstream summary: NVIDIA Unix security team […]

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FreeBSD 12 — tinc-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — tinc-devel — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tinc — Buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16737 CVE-2018-16738 CVE-2018-16758 Upstream summary: tinc-vpn.org reports: The authentication protocol allows an oracle attack that could potentially be exploited. If a man-in-the-middle has intercepted […]

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How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 8

InfluxDB 2.x is a purpose-built time-series database that stores metrics with nanosecond precision and exposes a powerful query language called Flux for aggregating and transforming that data. Telegraf is the official plugin-driven metrics collection agent from InfluxData — it ships over 200 input plugins covering everything from CPU and memory to Docker containers and SNMP […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — golang-1.10 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — golang-1.10 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 June 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4758-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24553 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Go applications incorrectly handled uploaded content. If a user were tricked into visiting a malicious page, a remote attacker could […]

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