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How to Manage Systemd Services and Units on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Systemd Services and Units on RHEL 7

How to Manage Systemd Services and Units on RHEL 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 made a significant shift from the traditional SysVinit and Upstart initialization systems to systemd as the default init system. Systemd is a comprehensive system and service manager that controls how services start, stop, and interact with the rest of the […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-users — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — yast2-users — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2016:1226-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1601 Upstream summary: yast2-users before 3.1.47, as used in SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1, does not properly set empty password fields in /etc/shadow during an […]

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How to Set Up CARP High Availability on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up CARP High Availability on FreeBSD 12

Introduction FreeBSD 12 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up set up carp high availability on freebsd 12 on FreeBSD 12 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any […]

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

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

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: brotli — buffer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1624 CVE-2016-1968 Upstream summary: Google Chrome Releases reports: [583607] High CVE-2016-1624: Buffer overflow in Brotli. Credit to lukezli. Mozilla Foundation reports: Security researcher Luke […]

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FreeBSD 12 — icecast — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — icecast — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: icecast — Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2001-0784 CVE-2001-1083 CVE-2001-1229 CVE-2001-1230 CVE-2002-0177 CVE-2004-0781 Upstream summary: Caused by improper filtering of HTML code in the status display, it is possible for […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python36-dulwich — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python36-dulwich — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2018:2213-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-16228 Upstream summary: Dulwich before 0.18.5, when an SSH subprocess is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an ssh URL with an […]

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FreeBSD 12 — ru-apache+mod_ssl — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — ru-apache+mod_ssl — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 16 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: Apache 1.3 — mod_proxy reverse proxy exposure Related CVEs: CVE-2003-0993 CVE-2004-0700 CVE-2004-0885 CVE-2004-0940 CVE-2005-2088 CVE-2005-3352 CVE-2006-3747 CVE-2011-3368 Upstream summary: Apache HTTP server project reports: An exposure was found when using […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — libneon27 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — libneon27 — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SR:2007:002 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2007-0157 CVE-2008-3746 CVE-2009-2473 CVE-2009-2474 Upstream summary: Array index error in the uri_lookup function in the URI parser for neon 0.26.0 to 0.26.2, possibly only on […]

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FreeBSD 12 — sge — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — sge — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 June 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: sge — local root exploit in bundled rsh executable Upstream summary: Sun Microsystems reports: The SGE 6.0u7_1 release fixes a security bug which can allow malicious users to gain root […]

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