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Ubuntu 14.04 — gzip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — gzip — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 October 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5378-4 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-1271 Upstream summary: USN-5378-1 fixed a vulnerability in Gzip. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Cleemy Desu […]

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How To Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu 22.04

Configuration management systems are designed to streamline the process of controlling large numbers of servers, for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one central location.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Package Dependency Errors After Partial Upgrade

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 October 2022 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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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – SSH key login fails due to ~/.ssh permissions – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 October 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 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 22.04 — xfce4-settings — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — xfce4-settings — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 13 October 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6141-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-45062 Upstream summary: Robin Peraglie and Johannes Moritz discovered that xfce4-settings incorrectly parsed quoted input when processed through xdg-open. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue […]

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Common Problems 117073

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS – MySQL fails to start because AppArmor blocks data path – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 12 October 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 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 22.04 — snowflake — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 22.04

Ubuntu 22.04 — snowflake — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 12 October 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7966-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-29189 CVE-2022-29222 CVE-2022-29190 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Pion DTLS, vendored in Snowflake, did not impose a limit on the amount of data that was buffered […]

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How To Configure StatsD to Collect Arbitrary Stats for Graphite on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure StatsD to Collect Arbitrary Stats for Graphite on Ubuntu 14.04

StatsD is a statistics collection daemon that can be configured to collect arbitrary statistics from applications. It is extremely flexible and allows you to use Graphite in a much more powerful way. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install and configure StatsD to collect and send metrics to Graphite. We will be doing this on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-image-processing — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — ruby-image-processing — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6675-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-24720 Upstream summary: It was discovered that ImageProcessing incorrectly handled series of operations that are coming from unsanitised inputs. If a user or an automated system were […]

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — ecdsautils — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 October 2022 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6239-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2022-24884 Upstream summary: It was discovered that ECDSA Util did not properly verify certain signature values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass signature verification. […]

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