Ubuntu 16.04

Common Problems 118422

Ubuntu 16.04 DNS Resolution Fails Intermittently

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 February 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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How To Install and Configure Sphinx on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure Sphinx on Ubuntu 16.04

Sphinx is an open source search engine that allows full-text searches. In this tutorial we will set up Sphinx with MySQL server using the example SQL file included in the distribution package to give you a basic idea of how to use Sphinx for your project.

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Como Instalar e Configurar o GitLab no Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Como Instalar e Configurar o GitLab no Ubuntu 16.04

O GitLab CE, ou Community Edition, é uma aplicação open source usada principalmente para hospedar repositórios Git, com recursos adicionais relacionados ao desenvolvimento, como rastreamento de problemas. Ele é projetado para ser hospedado usando a sua própria infraestrutura, e…

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Common Problems 118468

Read-only file system after unexpected reboot

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 20 February 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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Ubuntu 16.04 — maven — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — maven — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5245-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-26291 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Maven followed repositories that are defined in a dependency's Project Object Model (pom) even if the repositories weren't encrypted […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — cairo — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — cairo — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 17 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8140-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35492 CVE-2017-9814 CVE-2019-6462 CVE-2019-6461 CVE-2016-9082 Upstream summary: Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Cairo did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use […]

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

Ubuntu 16.04 — audacity — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7211-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11867 Upstream summary: Mike Salvatore discovered that Audacity incorrectly handled default permissions of temporary files created by the application. An attacker could possibly use this issue to […]

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

Ubuntu 16.04 — oddjob — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 16 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5169-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-10737 Upstream summary: Matthias Gerstner discovered that there was a race condition in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package. An authenticated attacker could use this […]

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Common Problems 118474

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS NTP drift causes TLS and token validation failures

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 February 2021 Affected versions: 16.04 📖 ~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 […]

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Common Problems 118493

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – OOM killer terminates critical services – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 14 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 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 […]

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