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Multiple vulnerabilities in FreeBSD NFS server code

Posted: 28 Nov 2018 07:36 AM PST

FreeBSD is a free and open source operating system. The NFS (Network File System) is a server and client application that turn FreeBSD into a file sharing server. Users can upload or update files on a remote NFS server. NFS is standard on NAS (network attached storage) devices or sharing data for web servers. A new bug found in NFS server code which could allow a remote attacker to crash the NFS server, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack. Another possibility is to execute arbitrary code on the server.

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Linux Find Out What Process Are Using Swap Space

Posted: 28 Nov 2018 04:35 AM PST


The top and free command display the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the server. How do I determine which process is using swap space under Linux operating systems? How do I find out swap space usage of a particular process such as memcached?

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How to update OpenSUSE Linux software and kernel using CLI

Posted: 28 Nov 2018 04:03 AM PST

I am a new OpenSUSE Linux server user. How do I upgrade and update OpenSUSE Linux software and kernel from the CLI? How do I use the command line tool to upgrade your system to the latest version of openSUSE software and kernel?

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