Ubuntu 18.04

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – time drift causes TLS certificate validation errors

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 28 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 18.04.6 📖 ~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 […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — yara — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — yara — multiple vulnerabilities (17 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8080-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-19976 CVE-2017-9304 CVE-2018-19974 CVE-2017-8294 CVE-2018-12034 CVE-2017-8929 CVE-2021-45429 CVE-2017-11328  +9 more Upstream summary: Kamil Frankowicz discovered that a number of YARA's functions generated memory exceptions when processing specially […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — open-iscsi — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — open-iscsi — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 24 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6259-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13987 CVE-2020-13988 CVE-2020-17437 Upstream summary: Jos Wetzels, Stanislav Dashevskyi, and Amine Amri discovered that Open-iSCSI incorrectly handled certain checksums for IP packets. An attacker could possibly use […]

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How To Optimize MySQL with Query Cache on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Optimize MySQL with Query Cache on Ubuntu 18.04

Query cache is a prominent MySQL feature that speeds up data retrieval from a database. In this tutorial, you will first configure MySQL without query cache and run queries to see the duration results. Then you’ll set up query cache and test your MySQL server with it enabled to show the difference in performance.

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Ubuntu 18.04 — pygments — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — pygments — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 20 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4897-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-27291 CVE-2021-20270 Upstream summary: Ben Caller discovered that Pygments incorrectly handled parsing certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into parsing a specially crafted […]

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