Security Hardening

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

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

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.15.1-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — syncthing 1.15.1-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-21404 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships syncthing 1.15.1-r0 which addresses CVE-2021-21404. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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How to Deploy a Spring Boot Application on Oracle Linux 8 — step-by-step Oracle Linux 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a Spring Boot Application on Oracle Linux 8

Introduction Setting up deploy a spring boot application on oracle linux 8 on a Oracle Linux 8 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Deploy a Spring Boot Application on Oracle Linux 8, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 May 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8110-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4456 Upstream summary: Dave Rolsky discovered that Net-CIDR did not properly sanitize IP addresses. An attacker could possibly use this to bypass IP-based restrictions. Table of contents […]

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AlmaLinux 8 — libexif — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on AlmaLinux 8

AlmaLinux 8 — libexif — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: AlmaLinux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux ALSA ALSA-2020:5393 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-0452 Upstream summary: The libexif packages provide a library for extracting extra information from image files. Security Fix(es): * libexif: out of bounds write due to an integer overflow […]

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SLES 15 — libvirglrenderer1 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — libvirglrenderer1 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 May 2021 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8002 CVE-2020-8003 CVE-2019-18392 Upstream summary: A NULL pointer dereference in vrend_renderer.c in virglrenderer through 0.8.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via commands […]

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FreeBSD 13 — opera — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — opera — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 22 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: opera — moderately severe issue Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0411 CVE-2004-0717 CVE-2004-0718 CVE-2004-0721 CVE-2004-1156 CVE-2004-1157 CVE-2004-1158 CVE-2004-1160  +12 more Upstream summary: Opera reports: Fixed a moderately severe issue, as reported by Attila […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — bash — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — bash — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2021-1679)

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 21 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-1679 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18276 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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Common Problems 119041

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS SSL handshake failures after certificate chain update

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 21 May 2021 Affected versions: 14.04 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs […]

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How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard 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 — Disable Swap swapoff -a sed -i ‘/ […]

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Common Problems 117402

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – apt update fails with Release file not valid yet – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 21 May 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 📖 ~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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