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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — firebird — 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-2013:0496-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2492 Upstream summary: Stack-based buffer overflow in Firebird 2.1.3 through 2.1.5 before 18514, and 2.5.1 through 2.5.3 before 26623, on Windows allows remote attackers to […]

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FreeBSD 12 — memcached — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — memcached — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: memcached — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2009-1255 CVE-2016-8704 CVE-2016-8705 CVE-2016-8706 Upstream summary: Cisco Talos reports: Multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities exist within Memcached that could be exploited to achieve remote code […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — gd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-4659)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 18 November 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-4659 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-14553 CVE-2019-6977 CVE-2019-6978 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — avahi-qt — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: avahi — denial of service Related CVEs: CVE-2010-2244 CVE-2011-1002 Upstream summary: Avahi developers reports: A vulnerability has been reported in Avahi, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause […]

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How to Configure AppArmor Enforcement on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure AppArmor Enforcement on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure AppArmor Enforcement on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (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 — Check AppArmor Status systemctl status apparmor aa-status Step 2 […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libbsd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libbsd — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 November 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4243-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-2090 CVE-2019-20367 Upstream summary: It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only […]

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How to Set Up Kubernetes Ingress with Nginx Ingress Controller on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Kubernetes Ingress with Nginx Ingress Controller on RHEL 7

How to Set Up Kubernetes Ingress with Nginx Ingress Controller on RHEL 7 Kubernetes Ingress provides a powerful way to expose HTTP and HTTPS routes from outside the cluster to services running inside it. Rather than creating a separate LoadBalancer service for every application, an Ingress resource lets you define routing rules in one place, […]

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Debian 10 — lrzip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — lrzip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 November 2019 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-5786 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — mpv — 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-2018-6360 Upstream summary: mpv through 0.28.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, because it reads HTML documents containing VIDEO […]

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FreeBSD 12 — hlstats — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — hlstats — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 November 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: hlstats — multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4454 CVE-2006-6780 CVE-2006-6781 CVE-2007-2812 Upstream summary: Kefka reports multiple cross site scripting vulnerabilities within hlstats. The vulnerabilities are caused due to […]

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