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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 3.5.1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — chrony 3.5.1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14367 Upstream summary: Alpine main repository for vedge ships chrony 3.5.1-r0 which addresses CVE-2020-14367. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Configure Ceph Storage Cluster on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Ceph Storage Cluster on Debian 10

Introduction How to Configure Ceph Storage Cluster 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 — p5-XSLoader — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: p5-XSLoader — local arbitrary code execution Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6185 Upstream summary: Jakub Wilk reports: XSLoader tries to load code from a subdirectory in the cwd when called inside a string […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — winrs — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:1111-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-3816 Upstream summary: Openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to arbitrary file disclosure because the working directory of openwsmand daemon was set […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: OpenJPH < 0.24.5 — multiple vulnerabilities Upstream summary: Aous Naman reports several vulnerabilities fixed in OpenJPH versions up to 0.24.5 and credits Cary Phillips for reporting them from the OSS-fuzz […]

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How to Set Up Suricata IDS/IPS on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Suricata IDS/IPS on Debian 10

Introduction This guide explains how to Set Up Suricata IDS/IPS 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 the […]

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Gentoo Linux — media-gfx/gthumb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux — media-gfx/gthumb — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Gentoo Linux 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Gentoo GLSA GLSA-202008-05 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-20326 Upstream summary: A heap-based buffer overflow in gThumb’s _cairo_image_surface_create_from_jpeg() function, located in extensions/cairo_io/cairo-image-surface-jpeg.c was discovered. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick […]

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FreeBSD 12 — sieve-connect — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — sieve-connect — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: sieve-connect — TLS hostname verification was not occurring Upstream summary: sieve-connect developer Phil Pennock reports: sieve-connect was not actually verifying TLS certificate identities matched the expected hostname. Table of contents […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — c3p0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — c3p0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 January 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7571-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-5427 Upstream summary: Aaron Massey discovered that c3p0 could be made to crash when parsing certain input. An attacker able to modify the application’s XML configuration file […]

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