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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 July 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: wireshark — PCNFSD Dissector Denial of Service Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0176 CVE-2004-0365 CVE-2004-0367 CVE-2004-0504 CVE-2004-0505 CVE-2004-0506 CVE-2004-0507 CVE-2004-0633  +12 more Upstream summary: Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in […]

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Debian 9 — ghostscript — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 9

Debian 9 — ghostscript — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 1 July 2019 Affected versions: Debian 9 (stretch) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9611 CVE-2018-11645 CVE-2018-15908 CVE-2018-16509 CVE-2018-19134 CVE-2019-10216 CVE-2019-14811 CVE-2019-14869  +3 more Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python36-ruamel.yaml — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python36-ruamel.yaml — 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-2019-20478 Upstream summary: In ruamel.yaml through 0.16.7, the load method allows remote code execution if the application calls this method with an untrusted argument. In […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — obs-service-set_version — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — obs-service-set_version — 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-2014-0593 Upstream summary: The set_version script as shipped with obs-service-set_version is a source validator for the Open Build Service (OBS). In versions prior to 0.5.3-1.1 […]

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FreeBSD 12 — linux-f10-pango — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — linux-f10-pango — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 30 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: pango — integer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2009-1194 Upstream summary: oCERT reports: Pango suffers from a multiplicative integer overflow which may lead to a potentially exploitable, heap overflow depending on the […]

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How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access 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 […]

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FreeBSD 12 — npm — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — npm — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: NPM — Multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16775 CVE-2019-16776 CVE-2019-16777 Upstream summary: NPM reports: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite Symlink reference outside of node_modules Arbitrary File Write Table of contents Symptom & […]

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How to Set Up a Ceph Storage Cluster on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Ceph Storage Cluster on RHEL 8

Ceph is a unified, distributed storage system that simultaneously provides object, block, and file storage on commodity hardware. It eliminates single points of failure through replication and erasure coding, and scales linearly by adding nodes. The cephadm tool, introduced in Ceph Octopus, simplifies cluster deployment by using containers (Podman on RHEL 8) to manage Ceph […]

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SLES 12 — gettext-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — gettext-tools — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 30 June 2019 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-IU-2020:117-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2018-18751 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free […]

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