[OpenIndiana-discuss] [HEADS UP] CVE-2016-6560, CVE-2016-6561 Security issues in illumos

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Hello.

Two illumos security issues, https://www.illumos.org/issues/7488 and 
https://www.illumos.org/issues/7483 got CVE-2016-6560 and CVE-2016-6561.
First one is an issue in kernel bcopy code, second is related to 
in-kernel SMB server. Both can lead to system crash.
Both issues were fixed about ten days ago.
Check that your systems are updated at least to 
osnet-incorporation at 0.5.11,5.11-2016.0.1.15933 .

OpenIndiana Hipster 2016.10 snapshot already ships necessary fixes.

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