🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 27 April 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6586-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-12211 CVE-2019-12213 CVE-2020-21427 CVE-2020-21428 CVE-2020-22524 CVE-2016-5684 Upstream summary: It was discovered that FreeImage incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted […]
Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up Snort IDS on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (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. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 12 system is up to date: zypper […]
🟠 High ⏱ 5–30 min Last verified: 27 April 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 […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 27 April 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read • Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5258-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-14727 CVE-2020-8955 CVE-2020-9759 CVE-2020-9760 CVE-2021-40516 Upstream summary: Stuart Nevans Locke discovered that WeeChat's relay plugin insecurely handled malformed websocket frames. A remote attacker in control of a […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read • Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-CU-2023:712-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-36373 CVE-2021-36374 CVE-2013-1571 CVE-2018-10886 CVE-2020-11979 CVE-2020-1945 Upstream summary: When reading a specially crafted TAR archive an Apache Ant build can be made to allocate large […]
🟡 Medium ⏱ 10–30 min Last verified: 27 April 2021 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read • Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2024:1256-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2021-47154 Upstream summary: The Net::CIDR::Lite module before 0.22 for Perl does not properly consider extraneous zero characters at the beginning of an IP address string, […]
Introduction Setting up tune kernel parameters with sysctl 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 Tune Kernel Parameters with sysctl on Oracle Linux 8, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld […]
🟠 High ⏱ 30–90 min Last verified: 27 April 2021 Affected versions: IBM AIX 7.2 📖 ~4 min read • Source: NVD CVE-2021-29678, IBM Support Bulletin CVE: CVE-2021-29678 NVD summary: IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 9.7, 10.1, 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5 could allow a user with DBADM authority […]
🟠 High ⏱ 15–60 min Last verified: 27 April 2021 Affected versions: FreeBSD 13 📖 ~4 min read • Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: firefox & mozilla — multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0762 CVE-2004-0765 CVE-2004-0904 CVE-2004-0905 CVE-2004-0908 CVE-2004-0909 CVE-2004-1156 CVE-2004-1157 +12 more Upstream summary: A Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory reports of multiple issues: Heap […]
How to Configure System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2 provides enterprise-grade monitoring for Windows Server 2012 R2 environments. The SCOM agent, installed on each managed server, collects health state data, performance counters, event log entries, and application-specific metrics, then transmits them to the […]
