Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle juergen. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Our server only has one active root file system and theres no cdrom attached to it. The solaris 10 1 kernel patch, 14714726 sparc 14714826 x86. How to have a backup boot when applying patches to solaris 10. How to check solaris release and default kernel version the. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Data loss after installing solaris 10 kernel patches. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. Oracle has issued three fixes for a critical solaris vulnerability that could allow kernellevel privilege escalation. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience.
Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10 kernel. Update 5 operating system, and the solaris 10 10 09 patch bundle has been installed subsequently. Installing a solaris 10 update patch bundle to a system will update etcrelease file, but the sunwsolnm package version will not change, ie. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Was trying to locate the info under patch logs yet no luck.
Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. A security vulnerability exists for solaris 10 systems with kernel patches 12001104 or later sparc and 12001204 or later x86 which are configured as nfs servers. Solaris 11 is public available and the ips package management is setting new standards in solaris administration and version management. Apr 25, 20 solaris 10 release table posted on april 25, 20 by zach. Hi all, i am in a process of upgrading the kernel patch of a solaris 10 x64 machine, the present kernel patch is 5. Understanding patches oracle solaris blog oracle blogs. Aug 15, 2019 how to determine kernel patch in a solaris10 branded zone doc id 2297402. Please list command and specific directory that patches should. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular quarter. Note the oracle solaris 10 1 software contains scriptspecial patches which do not deliver bug fixes or new features, but deliver changes that are required as a result of issues with the creation of the update image.
Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Short guide to install oracle 10 on sun solaris 10. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. The solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and runtime issues and bugs. Unless you transition to oracle solaris 10 extended support, you will not be. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Applying a kernel patch or a solaris patch bundle is not the equivalent to installing the specific solaris 10 update 11 image. Apply changes whether operating system upgrade, patches, or other changes to that copy instead of.
There is a warning in oracle support document see below. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. In most cases, you use a patch to upgrade your sun solaris operating system. Eternus multipath driver oracle solaris version installation information eternus multipath driver oracle solaris version installation information. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches.
Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. The boot disk are two mirrored disk with solaris volume manager. How to determine the release and default kernel version in. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Installing a solaris 10 update patch bundle to a system will update etc release file, but the sunwsolnm package version will not change, ie. The remote host is missing sun security patch number 15040064 nessus. It also describes how to use this information to determine the solaris os release installed on a system or contained within a solaris jumpstart software server image. How to determine kernel patch in a solaris10 branded zone.
Many kernel parameters have been replaced by so called resource controls in solaris 10. Solaris 10 kernel patchid sequence oracle solaris blog. How many reboots are required for updating solaris 10 update 8 to update 10. Solaris 10 kernel patchids sequence overview of kernel patches for the.
This plugin has been deprecated and either replaced with individual 150400 patch revision. Check the the current kernel version and confirm whether upgrade is required or not. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure.
As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. These patches are also provide the latest fixes to remove all the bugs and firmware issues. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. The better indicator of kernel level is the uname a output.
Note that these issues are in addition to the ones already identified in sun alert 241426. In the case a system has multiple solaris 10 update patch bundles installed, the etcrelease file will contain only a single patch bundle identification line, and this will. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. Due to the amount of change in each solaris 10 update, kernel patches tends to grow large and suck in non kernel code. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. This solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to the webbased training course ws2700s10.
Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Oracle testing shows scp transfer times of oracle solaris 10 1 are 18 the times of a similarly configured oracle solaris 10 811 system for multimegabyte file transfers. The above link you to both x86 and sparc patches for. Configuring oracle solaris operating systems for oracle grid infrastructure. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular. Description vulnerability in the solaris component of oracle sun systems products suite subcomponent.
The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. All important application running on zone1 servers. Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. Does the warning mean we need to upgrade solaris from solaris 10 update 11 base image instead of thru kernel patch, or something else. Solaris 10 ldom kernel patching using live upgrade. How to check solaris release and default kernel version. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. Currently we cannot boot or backout the patch by booting to cd. Vulnerability in the oracle solaris component of oracle sun systems products suite subcomponent. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware.
May 10, 2008 find answers to what patch do i need to get my solaris 10 server to kernel 5. Currently im installing all patches on solaris 9 905 sparc and 10 811. How to apply os kernel patch on solaris 10 server which. Everyone who develops software for this platform will want to make sure that the application users are using the optimal solaris 11 infrastructure.
If you want to learn how to patch a kernel, i would first practice building a vanilla kernel and try to boot from it once before patching it. Solaris 10 and opensolaris kernel architecture paperback 2nd edition richard mcdougall, jim mauro on. Solaris 10 kernel patches 1474400414744104 and later revisions cause a panic in swapify on systems that have one of the following vxvm configurations. As usual, weve released a patchset of all the patches contained in solaris 10 1 update 11. Twice lately when applying solaris 10 kernel patches to our sparc tech test server, the server would not boot. Grid infrastructure installation and upgrade guide. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. Verifying operating system patches on oracle solaris 10. Hello guysnewbie to solaris here i need to get this patch on my solaris 10 sparc machine. Here is the procedure to upgrade the kernel patches in solaris 10 with zfs filesystem using live upgrade method 1. This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged patches, release, solaris. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where oracle solaris executes to compromise oracle solaris.
Solaris live upgrade has many capabilities, but for a simple situation like upgrading a system to a new solaris release, there are three commands. Oracle refers to solaris updates by their release date, which can get pretty confusing. These release notes also include endofsoftware support statements, documentation issues, and a list of integrated patches. Have not attempted to install 12001114 prior to 12554702 as this smpatch analyze output should be considered patchorder list. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. To break these large kernel patches up into manageable pieces going forward, we rejuvenate the kernel patch after each solaris 10 update. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. But usually if there are kernel patches these are applied in single user mode and that means downtime for the entire time that the patches are being applied. The guide presents the key concepts of the course but it does not contain all the content presented in the course itself. The solarisinternals volumes are simply the best and most comprehensive treatment of the solaris and opensolaris operating environment. Part ii multiple printing regressions in solaris 10. Hi folks, i am trying to check kernel patch version on a solaris 10 zone. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam the sysadmin december 2009.
Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Solaris 10 kernel patch install instructionislamic. I am unable to find this information on uname a but no luck. This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged patches, release, solaris, table, updates. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Solaris 10 kernel patches 11882229 or later for sparc and 11884429 or later for x86 are flawed. After applying solaris 10 811 update 10 solaris os kernel patch 14744004 or superseding patches 14744005 or 14744006 on solaris sparc or 14744104 on solaris 10 x86 on a system with swap device under vxvms control as an encapsulated device, the system can recursively panic with the following stack trace displayed on the console. Solaris 10 kernel patches 12712711 sparc platform or 12712811 x86 platform introduce multiple printing regressions as listed below. Post solaris 10 1 kernel patches have the patchids 148888xx. Sun has released a security patch addressing the following issues. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. A local user can cause kernel memory corruption, application failure, data corruption, or a system panic. See the oracle solaris 10 1 whats new for details about these and other new features and hardware support enhancements. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016.
Solaris 10 system can panic if swap device is encapsulated. Supported versions that are affected are 10 and 11. Architecture for package sunwnxge from directory sunwnxge. May 19, 2009 now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Solaris the solaris operating system, usually known simply as solaris, is a unixbased operating system introduced by sun microsystems. Solaris kernel patches may let local users deny service. This blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11.
I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. How to determine kernel patch in a solaris10 branded zone doc id 2297402. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and. Most linux distributions have already applied a number of patches of their choosing against a vanilla kernel which can cause a patch to fail to apply. A local user can cause denial of service conditions.
Solaris 10 kernel patches may allow privileged remote. It has negative connotations, like a cloth patch used to repair worn out clothing. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases. Product solaris 10 operating system bug id 6602070 date of resolved release dec2007 impact. Oct 19, 2009 this is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. Another leaked nsa tool, ebbisland aka ebbshave, attempts to exploit a kernel rpc vulnerability cve20173623 in solaris 6 to 10. Fujitsu storage eternus multipath driver oracle solaris. Checking the software requirements for oracle solaris. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. What patch do i need to get my solaris 10 server to kernel 5. For example rejuvenated kernel patches associated with solaris 10 update releases such as 11883336 sparc 11885536 x86, 12001114 sparc 12001214 x86, etc.
In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. According to patch 122660 10 readme, it has been obseleted by 12001114. This example explains how to upgrade a solaris 10 305 system to the solaris 10 106 release. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam. Solaris 8 and solaris 9 also include newer kernel update patch rejuvenation. How many reboots are required for updating solaris 10. In solaris 10, you are not required to make changes to the etcsystem file to implement the system v tpc. Yes, you can patch any solaris 10 release with solaris 10 patches. Thats the same location that cwolf recommended for the solaris 8 patches, so i.