[OpenIndiana-discuss] Security alert: important fix for illumos-gate has been integrated

[Gary Mills]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 05:11:29PM +0200, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> 
> illumos-gate had an important fix for a PAM vulnerability (pre-auth
> remote root exploit as described here: CVE-2020-14871
> <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-14871>) yesterday.
> This change has been integrated in our package repository last night.
> Please update your OpenIndiana Hipster installations (pfexec pkg update
> -v ) and reboot in order to close that gap.

This is a positive response, for a change.  I've just updated OI on
two of my test systems, one Intel and the other AMD Ryzen.  Both
updates were successful.  I was able to log in on the console and
remotely for both systems.  Everything appeared quite normal.
Everything seemed to work.  I'm pleased with the updates.

The first was from an update done on 2020-10-05.  The second was from
an older update, done on 2020-07-05.


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