Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — percona-xtrabackup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — percona-xtrabackup — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 December 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6745-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-25834 Upstream summary: It was discovered that in Percona XtraBackup, a local crafted filename could trigger arbitrary code execution. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — python-oslo.utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — python-oslo.utils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 December 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5369-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-0718 Upstream summary: It was discovered that oslo.utils incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — node-eventsource — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — node-eventsource — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 December 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6082-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-1650 Upstream summary: It was discovered that EventSource incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input […]

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How To Install and Configure OrientDB on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure OrientDB on Ubuntu 16.04

OrientDB is a multi-model NoSQL database with support for graph and document databases. It is a Java application and can run on any operating system. It’s also fully ACID-complaint with support for multi-master replication, allowing easy horizontal scaling. In this article, you’ll install and configure the latest Community edition of OrientDB on an Ubuntu 16.04 server.

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How to Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Secure the Mosquitto MQTT Messaging Broker on Ubuntu 16.04

MQTT is a machine-to-machine messaging protocol, designed to provide lightweight publish/subscribe communication to “Internet of Things” devices. Mosquitto is a popular MQTT server (or broker, in MQTT parlance) that has great community support and is easy to install and configure. In this tutorial, we’ll install Mosquitto, retrieve SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and set up our broker to use SSL to secure our password-protected MQTT communications.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libgoogle-gson-java — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libgoogle-gson-java — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 December 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6692-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-25647 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Gson incorrectly handled deserialization of untrusted input data. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a […]

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How To Encrypt Traffic to Redis with Spiped on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Encrypt Traffic to Redis with Spiped on Ubuntu 16.04

Redis is an open-source key-value data store, using an in-memory storage model with optional disk writes for persistence. It features transactions, a pub/sub messaging pattern, and automatic failover among other functionality. Redis has clients written in most languages with…

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Ubuntu 16.04 Drops to Initramfs Unable to Find Root Filesystem

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 November 2022 📖 ~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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