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Common Problems 118522

Ubuntu 16.04 LVM Volume Not Found During Startup

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 22 April 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 — kconfig — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — kconfig — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4100-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6232 CVE-2019-14744 Upstream summary: It was discovered that KConfig and KDE libraries have a vulnerability where an attacker could hide malicious code under desktop and configuration files. […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — sympa — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — sympa — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 22 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4442-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000550 CVE-2018-1000671 CVE-2020-10936 Upstream summary: USN-4442-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Sympa. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. […]

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How To Optimize Apache Web Server Performance — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Optimize Apache Web Server Performance

Apache is an amazingly powerful and capable web server. In order to make initial setup as easy as possible, it comes with numerous modules pre-installed. This makes it a great choice for new projects when you need to quickly be productive, but as your site grows you may start to bump into performance problems. This tutorial will cover a few things you should do to optimize performance if you’re running Apache with your Django app.

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Ubuntu 18.04 — cairo — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — cairo — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 21 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8140-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-35492 CVE-2017-9814 CVE-2019-6462 CVE-2019-6461 Upstream summary: Alberto Garcia, Francisco Oca and Suleman Ali discovered that Cairo did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this […]

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Common Problems 118942

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS SSH login fails with Permission denied publickey

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 20 April 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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Ubuntu 14.04 — vcftools — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — vcftools — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 20 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4835-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-11099 CVE-2018-11129 CVE-2018-11130 CVE-2019-1010127 Upstream summary: It was discovered that VCFtools improperly handled certain input. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted input file, VCFtools […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — bash — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — bash — multiple vulnerabilities (12 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 19 April 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5380-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-18276 CVE-2019-9924 CVE-2016-0634 CVE-2016-7543 CVE-2016-9401 CVE-2017-5932 CVE-2014-6277 CVE-2014-6278  +4 more Upstream summary: It was discovered that Bash did not properly drop privileges when the binary had the […]

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