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How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 7

How to Configure Suricata IDS/IPS on RHEL 7 Suricata is a high-performance, open-source network threat detection engine maintained by the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF). It can operate as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), passively monitoring traffic and alerting on suspicious patterns, or as an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), actively blocking malicious connections using the […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — scummvm — 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-2017-17528 Upstream summary: backends/platform/sdl/posix/posix.cpp in ScummVM 1.9.0 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote […]

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How to Configure System Logging with rsyslog on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure System Logging with rsyslog on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure System Logging with rsyslog 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. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up to date: […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-rest-client — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-rest-client — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 September 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rest-client — plaintext password disclosure Related CVEs: CVE-2015-1820 CVE-2015-3448 Upstream summary: The open sourced vulnerability database reports: REST Client for Ruby contains a flaw that is due to the application […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.2-rubygem-nokogiri — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — ruby2.2-rubygem-nokogiri — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-2877 CVE-2015-8241 CVE-2015-8317 Upstream summary: parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.0, as used in Google Chrome before 28.0.1500.71 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — xapian-core — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — xapian-core — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3709-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-0499 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Xapian-core incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this to execute arbitrary code. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — cflow — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — cflow — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5375-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16165 Upstream summary: It was discovered that GNU cflow was incorrectly handling memory cleanup operations at the end of a compilation module. An attacker could possibly use […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — usbguard — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2019-25058 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in USBGuard before 1.1.0. On systems with the usbguard-dbus daemon running, an unprivileged user could make USBGuard allow […]

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SLES 15 — libmarkdown2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libmarkdown2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 15 September 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2019:0019-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-11468 CVE-2018-12495 Upstream summary: The __mkd_trim_line function in mkdio.c in libmarkdown.a in DISCOUNT 2.2.3a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — zsh — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-0903)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 15 September 2019 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-0903 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-20044 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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