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How To Install R on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install R on Ubuntu 22.04

R is a widely used programming language for performing data analysis and statistical computing. It is an increasingly popular and extensible language with an active community. R offers many user-generated packages for specific areas of study, which makes it applicable to many fields.

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS CIFS Mount Fails at Boot

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 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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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – SSH service is active but remote login is refused

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 19 November 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ubuntu 22.04 Ubuntu 22.04.4 📖 ~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 — jupyter-core — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — jupyter-core — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 19 November 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6153-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-39286 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Jupyter Core executed untrusted files in the current working directory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — busybox — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — busybox — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 19 November 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6335-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-28831 CVE-2022-48174 CVE-2011-5325 CVE-2014-9645 CVE-2015-9261 CVE-2016-2147 CVE-2016-2148 CVE-2017-15873  +4 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that BusyBox incorrectly handled certain malformed gzip archives. If a user or […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — golang-golang-x-text — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — golang-golang-x-text — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 19 November 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5873-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-14040 CVE-2020-28851 CVE-2020-28852 CVE-2021-38561 CVE-2022-32149 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Go Text incorrectly handled certain encodings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Java Service Crashes Due to Outdated CA Bundle

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 November 2022 Affected versions: 14.04 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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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – NTP drift causes authentication and cluster timing faults – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 18 November 2022 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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Ubuntu 20.04 — node-minimatch — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — node-minimatch — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 18 November 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6086-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-3517 Upstream summary: It was discovered that minimatch 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 Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Logfiles with Logrotate on Ubuntu 22.04

Logrotate is a system utility that manages the automatic rotation and compression of log files. If log files were not rotated, compressed, and periodically pruned, they would eventually consume all available disk space on a system. In this article, we will explore the default Logrotate configuration, then configure log rotation for a fictional custom application.

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