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FreeBSD 13 — mysql57-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — mysql57-server — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: MySQL — Multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2015-3194 CVE-2016-0639 CVE-2016-0640 CVE-2016-0641 CVE-2016-0642 CVE-2016-0643 CVE-2016-0644 CVE-2016-0646  +12 more Upstream summary: Oracle reports: This Critical Patch Update contains 37 new security patches, plus […]

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How to Set Up OpenTelemetry Collector on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up OpenTelemetry Collector on RHEL 8

OpenTelemetry is the CNCF-backed standard for collecting traces, metrics, and logs from applications and infrastructure in a vendor-neutral way. The OpenTelemetry Collector is the agent and pipeline component — it receives telemetry over OTLP, Jaeger, Zipkin, or Prometheus scrape, applies processors such as batching and attribute transformation, and exports to backends like Jaeger, Prometheus Remote […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — hawk2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — hawk2 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2021:0054-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35458 CVE-2021-25314 Upstream summary: An issue was discovered in ClusterLabs Hawk 2.x through 2.3.0-x. There is a Ruby shell code injection issue via the hawk_remember_me_id […]

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Common Problems 117609

Ubuntu 20.04 Software Center not opening

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 May 2021 📖 ~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 References & Further […]

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

Oracle Linux 8 — libtiff — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2021-4241)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 May 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-4241 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35522 CVE-2020-35523 CVE-2020-35524 CVE-2020-35521 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches […]

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How to Harden SSH on IBM AIX 7.2 — step-by-step IBM AIX 7.2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden SSH on IBM AIX 7.2

Introduction IBM AIX 7.2 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 7.2 introduces enhanced virtualization, security hardening, and cloud integration features. This guide covers how to harden ssh on ibm aix 7.2 on IBM AIX […]

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FreeBSD 13 — quassel — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 13

FreeBSD 13 — quassel — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 May 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: quassel — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2013-4422 CVE-2015-3427 CVE-2015-8547 CVE-2016-4414 Upstream summary: Gentoo reports: quasselcore: corruption of heap metadata caused by qdatastream leading to preauth remote code execution. Severity: high, […]

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

How to Deploy a CakePHP Application on Oracle Linux 8

Introduction Setting up deploy a cakephp 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 CakePHP Application on Oracle Linux 8, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld considerations to […]

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