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

FreeBSD 12 — ircd-ratbox — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 October 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: ircd-ratbox and charybdis — remote DoS vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2009-4016 CVE-2010-0300 Upstream summary: atheme.org reports: All versions of Charybdis are vulnerable to a remotely-triggered crash bug caused by code originating […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — mod_auth_openidc — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — mod_auth_openidc — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2019-1329 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-6059 CVE-2017-6413 CVE-2019-14857 CVE-2019-20479 Upstream summary: A text injection flaw was found in how mod_auth_openidc handled error pages. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to conduct […]

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How to Set Up PowerHA Geographic Mirroring on IBM AIX 7.1 — step-by-step IBM AIX 7.1 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up PowerHA Geographic Mirroring on IBM AIX 7.1

Introduction IBM AIX 7.1 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.1 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to set up powerha geographic mirroring on ibm aix 7.1 […]

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Debian 9 — php-imagick — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — php-imagick — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 24 October 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-11037 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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How to Install Laravel on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Laravel on RHEL 8

Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in the world, offering an elegant syntax, a powerful ORM (Eloquent), built-in authentication scaffolding, and a rich ecosystem of first-party packages. Installing Laravel on RHEL 8 involves a few more steps than on a generic Linux distribution because of SELinux and the systemd-managed PHP-FPM service. This tutorial guides […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — telepathy-idle — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — telepathy-idle — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2013:1364-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2007-6746 Upstream summary: telepathy-idle before 0.1.15 does not verify (1) that the issuer is a trusted CA, (2) that the server hostname matches a domain […]

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How to Configure AIX as an NIS Server on IBM AIX 7.1 — step-by-step IBM AIX 7.1 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure AIX as an NIS Server on IBM AIX 7.1

Introduction IBM AIX 7.1 is the latest release of IBM’s enterprise-grade UNIX operating system, running on IBM Power Systems hardware. Known for its reliability, security, and performance in mission-critical environments, AIX 7.1 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to configure aix as an nis server on ibm aix […]

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How to Configure Redis Sentinel on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Redis Sentinel on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Configure Redis Sentinel on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf for packet filtering, […]

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