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How to Configure a Static IP Address with Netplan on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Certbot and Manage Let’s Encrypt Certificates on Ubuntu 24.04

Let’s Encrypt provides free, automated SSL/TLS certificates via the ACME protocol. Certbot is the official Let’s Encrypt client. This guide installs Certbot and manages certificates for Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server Nginx installed A domain name pointed to your server Port 80 and […]

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Ubuntu 22.04 — nano — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — nano — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7064-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-5742 Upstream summary: It was discovered that nano allowed a possible privilege escalation through an insecure temporary file. If nano was killed while editing, the permissions granted […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — pam — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — pam — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 13 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6588-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-22365 CVE-2022-28321 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2006073 Upstream summary: Matthias Gerstner discovered that the PAM pam_namespace module incorrectly handled special files when performing directory checks. A local attacker could possibly use […]

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How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04

Vagrant provides a consistent, portable development environment by automating the creation and provisioning of virtual machines. This guide installs Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop or server CPU with hardware virtualisation enabled (VT-x/AMD-V) A user with sudo privileges Step 1 – Add […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — wget — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — wget — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6852-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-38428 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Wget incorrectly handled semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI. A remote attacker could possibly trick a user into […]

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Ubuntu 24.04 — node-path-to-regexp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 — node-path-to-regexp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 (noble) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8290-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-45296 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Path-to-Regexp incorrectly handled route patterns containing multiple named parameters separated by non-delimiter characters such as hyphens. An attacker could possibly […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — docker.io — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — docker.io — multiple vulnerabilities (16 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 11 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7474-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-28840 CVE-2023-28841 CVE-2023-28842 CVE-2024-23651 CVE-2024-23652 CVE-2024-36621 CVE-2024-36623 CVE-2024-29018  +8 more Upstream summary: Cory Snider discovered that Docker incorrectly handled networking packet encapsulation. An attacker could use this […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — znc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — znc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6990-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-39844 CVE-2019-12816 Upstream summary: Johannes Kuhn (DasBrain) discovered that znc incorrectly handled user input under certain operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — node-express — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7581-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-29041 CVE-2024-43796 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Express incorrectly handled certain URLs, leading to an open redirect attack. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — wpa — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — wpa — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6945-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2024-5290 https://launchpad.net/bugs/2067613 CVE-2021-27803 CVE-2020-12695 CVE-2021-0326 CVE-2019-16275 CVE-2019-11555 CVE-2016-10743  +12 more Upstream summary: Rory McNamara discovered that wpa_supplicant could be made to load arbitrary shared objects by unprivileged […]

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