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FreeBSD 12 — php71-gd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php71-gd — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php-gd and gd — Buffer over-read into uninitialized memory Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7890 Upstream summary: PHP developers report: The GIF decoding function gdImageCreateFromGifCtx in gd_gif_in.c in the GD Graphics Library (aka […]

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How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana

How to Set Up Windows Server 2019 with Grafana Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform that, when combined with a time-series data source, provides powerful dashboards for Windows Server 2019 monitoring. The typical architecture uses Windows Exporter (formerly wmi_exporter) to expose Prometheus-compatible metrics from Windows Server 2019, a Prometheus server to scrape and […]

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

Ubuntu 16.04 — commons-beanutils — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 July 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4766-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2014-0114 CVE-2019-10086 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Commons BeanUtils improperly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this vulnerability to cause a crash or […]

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How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 8

Caddy is a modern, open-source web server written in Go that automatically provisions and renews TLS certificates via Let’s Encrypt. Unlike Apache or Nginx, Caddy requires almost no manual TLS configuration, making it an excellent choice for developers who want HTTPS out of the box. On RHEL 8, Caddy is not available in the default […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — xlockmore — 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-2013-4143 Upstream summary: The (1) checkPasswd and (2) checkGroupXlockPasswds functions in xlockmore before 5.43 do not properly handle when a NULL value is returned upon […]

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FreeBSD 12 — clamav — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — clamav — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 30 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: clamav — ClamAV UDF File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0270 CVE-2005-0133 CVE-2005-1922 CVE-2005-1923 CVE-2005-2919 CVE-2005-2920 CVE-2006-0162 CVE-2006-1614  +12 more Upstream summary: Cisco reports: A vulnerability in […]

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FreeBSD 12 — py32-radicale — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — py32-radicale — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: radicale — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-8747 CVE-2015-8748 Upstream summary: Radicale reports: The multifilesystem backend allows access to arbitrary files on all platforms. Prevent regex injection in rights management. Table […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmms0 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libmms0 — 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-2014-2892 Upstream summary: Heap-based buffer overflow in the get_answer function in mmsh.c in libmms before 0.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a […]

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How to Set Up Zabbix on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Zabbix on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up Zabbix 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 — amarok — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 29 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: amarok — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2009-0135 CVE-2009-0136 Upstream summary: Secunia reports: Tobias Klein has reported some vulnerabilities in Amarok, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise […]

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