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SLES 12 — patch — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — patch — multiple vulnerabilities (10 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 December 2019 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2015:1019-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2015-1396 CVE-2019-13636 CVE-2010-4651 CVE-2015-1196 CVE-2016-10713 CVE-2018-1000156 CVE-2019-20633 CVE-2018-6952  +2 more Upstream summary: A Directory Traversal vulnerability exists in the GNU patch before 2.7.4. A remote […]

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Arch Linux — lib32-icu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — lib32-icu — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201711-26 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14952 Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary code execution. Status: Fixed. Affected: 59.1-1. Fixed in: 60.1-1. Group: AVG-507. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — GraalVM — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — GraalVM — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2023-12674)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 December 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2023-12674 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 […]

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Common Problems 120980

Repository URLs Return 404 During apt update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 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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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-mysql-connector-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python-mysql-connector-python — 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-2016-5598 Upstream summary: Unspecified vulnerability in the MySQL Connector component 2.1.3 and earlier and 2.0.4 and earlier in Oracle MySQL allows remote attackers to affect […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — phpSysInfo — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: phpsysinfo — url Cross-Site Scripting Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0869 CVE-2005-0870 Upstream summary: Doz reports: A Input passed in the URL to index.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — rsnapshot — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rsnapshot — local privilege escalation Related CVEs: CVE-2005-1064 Upstream summary: An rsnapshot Advisory reports: The copy_symlink() subroutine in rsnapshot incorrectly changes file ownership on the files pointed to by symlinks, […]

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How to Configure Network QoS with tc on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network QoS with tc on RHEL 7

How to Configure Network QoS with tc on RHEL 7 Quality of Service (QoS) is the practice of managing network traffic to ensure that critical applications receive the bandwidth and latency guarantees they need. Linux provides a sophisticated traffic control subsystem accessible through the tc (traffic control) command, part of the iproute2 package. With tc, […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — apache_fp — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 27 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: apache — Prevent chunk-size integer overflow on platforms where sizeof(int) < sizeof(long) Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2088 CVE-2005-3352 CVE-2006-3747 Upstream summary: Apache ChangeLog reports: Integer overflow in the ap_proxy_send_fb function in proxy/proxy_util.c […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 3.12.2-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — cfengine 3.12.2-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9929 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships cfengine 3.12.2-r0 which addresses CVE-2019-9929. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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