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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – SSH key authentication fails due to permission errors – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 15 July 2020 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 18.04 — isc-kea — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — isc-kea — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 July 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7759-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-6473 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Kea DHCP did not correctly handle invalid hostnames. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial […]

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How To Configure Port Knocking Using Only Iptables on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Port Knocking Using Only Iptables on an Ubuntu VPS

Port knocking is a method of hiding services behind a firewall until a specific sequence of network activity occurs. After detecting this, the firewall is dynamically reconfigured to expose the requested service for the client who completed the specific sequence of activity. In this article, we will discuss how to implement a port knocking mechanism on an Ubuntu VPS using only the tools available within the iptables package.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libseccomp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libseccomp — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 15 July 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4001-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-9893 Upstream summary: Jann Horn discovered that libseccomp did not correctly generate 64-bit syscall argument comparisons with arithmetic operators (LT, GT, LE, GE). An attacker could use […]

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Common Problems 119011

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS network interface names changed after kernel update

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 13 July 2020 Affected versions: 14.04 📖 ~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 […]

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How to Use the OpenResty Web Framework for Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use the OpenResty Web Framework for Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

OpenResty is a web server which extends Nginx by bundling it with many useful Nginx modules and Lua libraries. OpenResty excels at scaling web applications and services. For example, one module it includes enables you to write Lua code which will execute directly in an Nginx worker, enabling high-performance applications.

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How to Upgrade OSSEC 2.8.1 to OSSEC 2.8.2 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Upgrade OSSEC 2.8.1 to OSSEC 2.8.2

OSSEC is an open-source, host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) that performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, time-based alerting, and active response. It can be installed to monitor a single server or thousands of servers.

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