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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — fastjar — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2021:1107-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2010-2322 Upstream summary: Absolute path traversal vulnerability in the extract_jar function in jartool.c in FastJar 0.98 allows remote attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files […]

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How to Install Apache2 on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Apache2 on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Install Apache2 on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, and […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — apache+mod_perl — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Apache 1.3 — mod_proxy reverse proxy exposure Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0940 CVE-2005-2088 CVE-2005-3352 CVE-2006-3747 CVE-2011-3368 Upstream summary: Apache HTTP server project reports: An exposure was found when using mod_proxy in reverse […]

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How to Install and Configure k3s Lightweight Kubernetes on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure k3s Lightweight Kubernetes on Debian 10

Introduction Deploying install and configure k3s lightweight kubernetes on debian 10 on a Debian 10 Buster machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites […]

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FreeBSD 12 — p5-PathTools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — p5-PathTools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: p5-PathTools — File::Spec::canonpath loses taint Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8607 Upstream summary: Ricardo Signes reports: Beginning in PathTools 3.47 and/or perl 5.20.0, the File::Spec::canonpath() routine returned untained strings even if passed tainted […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — NetworkManager-applet — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — NetworkManager-applet — 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-2017-6590 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in network-manager-applet (aka network-manager-gnome) in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 16.10. A local attacker could […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem18-rdoc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem18-rdoc — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Ruby — XSS exploit of RDoc documentation generated by rdoc Related CVEs: CVE-2013-0256 Upstream summary: Ruby developers report: RDoc documentation generated by rdoc bundled with ruby are vulnerable to an […]

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FreeBSD 12 — testdisk — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — testdisk — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 1 March 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: testdisk — buffer overflow with malicious disk image Upstream summary: CGSecurity TestDisk Changelog reports: Various fix including security fix, thanks to: Coverity scan (Static Analysis of source code) afl-fuzz (security-oriented […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — libssh2 — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — libssh2 — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2023-2257 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-22218 CVE-2019-3855 CVE-2019-3856 CVE-2019-3857 CVE-2019-3863 CVE-2019-3859 CVE-2019-3860 CVE-2019-17498  +3 more Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in function _libssh2_packet_add in libssh2 1.10.0 allows attackers to access out […]

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SLES 15 — libspeex1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libspeex1 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 1 March 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2021:3858-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-23903 Upstream summary: A Divide by Zero vulnerability in the function static int read_samples of Speex v1.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service […]

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