Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — rake — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — rake — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4295-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8130 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Rake incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could use this issue to possibly execute arbitrary commands. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — blueman — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — blueman — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 9 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4605-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-15238 Upstream summary: Vaisha Bernard discovered that blueman did not properly sanitize input on the d-bus interface to blueman-mechanism. A local attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — apache-log4j2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — apache-log4j2 — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 7 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5222-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-44832 CVE-2021-45105 CVE-2021-44228 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Apache Log4j 2 was vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) attack when configured to use a JDBC Appender […]

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How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Metricbeat on Ubuntu 18.04

Metricbeat, the replacement for Topbeat, is a lightweight data shipper that collects CPU and memory statistics from a server and sends the data directly to your Elasticsearch deployment. In this tutorial, you will use Metricbeat to forward local system metrics like CPU/memory/disk usage and network utilization from an Ubuntu 18.04 server to another server of the same kind with the Elastic Stack installed.

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Common Problems 118056

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – time sync unstable due to chrony and systemd-timesyncd conflict – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 6 February 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 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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Common Problems 118049

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS MySQL Refuses to Start After Crash Recovery

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 4 February 2021 Affected versions: 18.04 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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