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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for SSH with Google Authenticator on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for SSH with Google Authenticator on RHEL 7

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for SSH with Google Authenticator on RHEL 7 Password-based SSH authentication is vulnerable to brute-force attacks, credential stuffing, and phishing. Adding a second authentication factor — a time-based one-time password (TOTP) generated by an app like Google Authenticator or Authy — dramatically reduces this risk. Even if an attacker […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 Boot Stuck at GRUB Prompt After Update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 20 December 2019 📖 ~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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FreeBSD 12 — radare — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — radare — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libzip — integer overflow Related CVEs: CVE-2015-2331 Upstream summary: libzip developers report: Avoid integer overflow. Fixed similarly to patch used in PHP copy of libzip. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Windows Server 2012 R2 — SQL Server service account permission regression — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 20 December 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2012 R2 📖 ~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 […]

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Arch Linux — aubio — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — aubio — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201902-8 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19802 CVE-2018-19801 CVE-2018-19800 Upstream summary: Type: denial of service. Status: Fixed. Affected: 0.4.8-1. Fixed in: 0.4.9-1. Group: AVG-888. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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FreeBSD 12 — libmusicbrainz — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — libmusicbrainz — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libmusicbrainz — multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2006-4197 Upstream summary: SecurityFocus reports about libmusicbrainz: The libmusicbrainz library is prone to multiple buffer-overflow vulnerabilities because the application fails to check […]

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How to Configure PHP Error Logging on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure PHP Error Logging on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Configure PHP Error Logging 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 […]

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FreeBSD 12 — cgit — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — cgit — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 20 December 2019 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: cgit — directory traversal vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2016-1899 CVE-2016-1900 CVE-2016-1901 CVE-2018-14912 Upstream summary: Jann Horn reports: cgit_clone_objects in CGit before 1.2.1 has a directory traversal vulnerability when `enable-http-clone=1` is not […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libofx — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libofx — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 December 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4523-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9656 Upstream summary: It was discovered that LibOFX did not properly check for errors in certain situations, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. A remote attacker could […]

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SLES 15 — cron — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — cron — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 20 December 2019 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SA:2006:027 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2006-2607 CVE-2010-0424 CVE-2019-9704 CVE-2019-9705 Upstream summary: do_command.c in Vixie cron (vixie-cron) 4.1 does not check the return code of a setuid call, which might allow […]

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