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FreeBSD 12 — p5-RT-Authen-ExternalAuth — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — p5-RT-Authen-ExternalAuth — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • April 20, 2020
  • BSD
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 20 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rt and dependent modules — multiple security vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2012-2770 CVE-2015-7686 CVE-2016-6127 CVE-2017-5361 CVE-2017-5943 CVE-2017-5944 Upstream summary: BestPractical reports: Please reference CVE/URL list for details Table of contents Symptom […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — vcftools — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — vcftools — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • April 20, 2020
  • Linux
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 20 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4835-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-11099 CVE-2018-11129 CVE-2018-11130 CVE-2019-1010127 Upstream summary: It was discovered that VCFtools improperly handled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted input file, VCFtools […]

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Arch Linux — neomutt — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — neomutt — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

  • April 20, 2020
  • Linux
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🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202011-24 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-28896 Upstream summary: Type: silent downgrade. Status: Fixed. Affected: 20200925-1. Fixed in: 20201120-1. Group: AVG-1289. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis […]

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How to Install Redis on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Redis on Debian 10

  • April 20, 2020
  • Linux
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Introduction Debian 10 Buster is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up install redis on debian 10 on Buster leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Buster freeze. Follow each step carefully and the resulting […]

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How to Install Laravel on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Laravel on RHEL 7

  • April 20, 2020
  • Linux
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How to Install Laravel on RHEL 7 Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks, renowned for its expressive syntax, robust ORM (Eloquent), built-in authentication scaffolding, and an ecosystem of first-party packages for queuing, broadcasting, and caching. Installing Laravel on RHEL 7 requires assembling several components: a recent PHP version from the Remi repository, […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ivtools — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ivtools — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • April 19, 2020
  • BSD
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tiff — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0803 CVE-2004-0804 CVE-2004-0886 CVE-2004-1308 CVE-2005-1544 Upstream summary: A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered […]

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How to Install InfluxDB on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install InfluxDB on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Install InfluxDB on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (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 12 system is up to date: zypper refresh && […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — collectd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — collectd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

  • April 19, 2020
  • Linux
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🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2187-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6254 CVE-2017-7401 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the parse_packet function in network.c in collectd before 5.4.3 and 5.x before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — pop3proxy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — pop3proxy — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

  • April 19, 2020
  • BSD
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🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: up-imapproxy — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-1035 Upstream summary: Timo Sirainen reports: There are various bugs in up-imapproxy which can crash it. Since up-imapproxy runs in a single process with […]

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