Package Management

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rhythmbox — 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-2012-3355 Upstream summary: (1) AlbumTab.py, (2) ArtistTab.py, (3) LinksTab.py, and (4) LyricsTab.py in the Context module in GNOME Rhythmbox 0.13.3 and earlier allows local users […]

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How to Configure Chef Client on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Chef Client on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure Chef Client on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (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 12 system is up to date: zypper refresh […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — gtetrinet — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: gtetrinet — remote code execution Related CVEs: CVE-2006-3125 Upstream summary: The Debian Security Team reports: Michael Gehring discovered several potential out-of-bounds index accesses in gtetrinet, a multiplayer Tetris-like game, which […]

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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-actionmailer — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — rubygem-actionmailer — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: rails — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4491 CVE-2013-6414 CVE-2013-6415 CVE-2013-6416 CVE-2013-6417 Upstream summary: Rails weblog: Rails 3.2.16 and 4.0.2 have been released! These two releases contain important security fixes, so […]

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 August 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2014:1137-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2014-3618 CVE-2017-16844 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in formisc.c in formail in procmail 3.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and […]

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How to Set Up Varnish Cache as a Reverse Proxy on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Varnish Cache as a Reverse Proxy on RHEL 7

How to Set Up Varnish Cache as a Reverse Proxy on RHEL 7 Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy and caching accelerator designed to sit in front of your web server. When a visitor requests a page, Varnish checks whether it holds a fresh cached copy. If it does, the response is served […]

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Debian 9 — systemd — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — systemd — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 14 August 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-16864 CVE-2019-3842 CVE-2019-6454 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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Debian 10 — libwebp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — libwebp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 14 August 2019 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2018-25009 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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FreeBSD 12 — rubygem18-json — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 August 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Ruby — Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON Related CVEs: CVE-2013-0269 Upstream summary: Aaron Patterson reports: When parsing certain JSON documents, the JSON gem can be […]

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Common Problems 118918

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – apt update fails because dpkg lock is held

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 August 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 Ubuntu 14.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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