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openSUSE Tumbleweed — archivemail — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — archivemail — 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 Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4245 Upstream summary: archivemail 0.6.2 uses temporary files insecurely leading to a possible race condition. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage […]

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How to Set Up Minio Object Storage on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Minio Object Storage on Debian 10

Introduction This guide explains how to Set Up Minio Object Storage on Debian 10 on Debian 10 Buster. Debian Buster uses systemd for service management, nftables as the underlying packet filter (with ufw or iptables front-ends still available), and AppArmor for mandatory access control. Every command is designed for a minimal Debian 10 install with […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ez-ipupdate — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ez-ipupdate — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ez-ipupdate — format string vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0980 Upstream summary: Data supplied by a remote server is used as the format string instead of as parameters in a syslog() call. […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — xmlgraphics-commons — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — xmlgraphics-commons — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:712-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11988 Upstream summary: Apache XmlGraphics Commons 2.4 and earlier is vulnerable to server-side request forgery, caused by improper input validation by the XMPParser. By using […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — rdesktop — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rdesktop — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:2135-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-20174 CVE-2018-20175 CVE-2018-20176 CVE-2018-20177 CVE-2018-20178 CVE-2018-20179 CVE-2018-20180 CVE-2018-20181  +12 more Upstream summary: rdesktop versions up to and including v1.8.3 contain an Out-Of-Bounds Read in the […]

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SLES 12 — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — hunspell — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 March 2020 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2020:2966-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16707 Upstream summary: Hunspell 1.7.0 has an invalid read operation in SuggestMgr::leftcommonsubstring in suggestmgr.cxx. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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SLES 12 — dia — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — dia — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 March 2020 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2008-5984 CVE-2019-19451 Upstream summary: Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python plugin in Dia 0.96.1, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute arbitrary […]

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Debian 10 – cloud-init Datasource Timeout Delays Boot – Fast Metadata Recovery

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 March 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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How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure SLES 12 for SAP Workloads 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. Step 1 — Configure SLES for SAP zypper install -y patterns-sap-hana Step […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — upp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: SQLite — Corrupt DB can cause a NULL pointer dereference Related CVEs: CVE-2018-8740 Upstream summary: MITRE reports: SQLite databases whose schema is corrupted using a CREATE TABLE AS statement could […]

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