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Common Problems 117397

Ubuntu 20.04 Stuck on Boot Splash After Updates

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 25 October 2020 📖 ~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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How To Use Port Knocking to Hide your SSH Daemon from Attackers on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Port Knocking to Hide your SSH Daemon from Attackers on Ubuntu

Port knocking is a method of protecting your services behind a firewall until connection attempts are made to a specific sequence of ports in a certain amount of time. The firewall rules are then modified to allow access to the service and the user can connect as normal. In this article, we will discuss how to implement port knocking to add an extra layer of protection to your SSH daemon in order to dissuade attackers.

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How To Install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 14.04

MediaWiki is a PHP wiki package, originally intended for use on Wikipedia, which allows anyone to create their own personal wiki site. This tutorial goes through how to set up MediaWiki on a Ubuntu 14.04 Droplet.

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Ubuntu 14.04 — intel-microcode — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — intel-microcode — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 October 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4985-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-24511 CVE-2020-24512 CVE-2020-24513 CVE-2020-24489 https://launchpad.net/bugs/1903883 CVE-2020-8695 CVE-2020-8696 CVE-2020-8698  +12 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that some Intel processors may not properly invalidate cache entries used by […]

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Common Problems 117417

Ubuntu 20.04 APT Lock File Errors

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 24 October 2020 📖 ~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 18.04 — node-bl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — node-bl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 23 October 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5098-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-8244 Upstream summary: It was discovered that bl didn't properly sanitize the inputs. An attacker could use this to leak sensitive information. Table of contents Symptom & […]

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Common Problems 117542

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS rsyslog Queue Backlog Delays Alerts

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 October 2020 Affected versions: 20.04 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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