Oracle has published the Solaris 11.4 SRU 30 (Support Repository Update) operating system update, which offers a series of regular fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes proposed in the update, just run the 'pkg update' command.
In the new release:
- Added support for the UMIP (User Mode Instruction Prevention) protection mechanism provided by Intel processors. When this mode is enabled at the CPU level in user space, the execution of some instructions, such as SGDT, SLDT, SIDT, SMSW, and STR, which can be used in attacks aimed at privilege escalation in the system, is prohibited.
- The composition includes new language branches Python 3.9 and Perl 5.32.0.
- Support for klog has been added to the vds (virtual disk server) driver.
- HMP (Hardware Management Pack) has been updated to version 2.4.7.1.
- New Python modules included to support libxml2, mod_wsgi and net-snmp.
- Added package with libpng 1.6 library.
- Updated Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.6.2 with support for LDoms audit logging, significant performance improvements for all vsan MASK operations, klog support, and multi-layer PVLAN.
- Separate components of the GNOME desktop (gnome-menus, gsettings-desktop-schemas, yelp) have been updated to releases 3.36 and 3.38.
- Many packages have been updated, including LLVM/Clang 11.0.0, CUPS 2.3.3, OpenSSH 8.2, dconf 0.38.0, gupnp 1.0.6, lftp 4.9.2, libnotify 0.7.9, mod_jk 1.2.48, mod_wsgi 4.7.1. 3.57, nss 13.99.1, pulseaudio 6.22.03, tcsh 2.5.0, xorg-driver-vesa XNUMX.
- Vulnerability fixes updated: Ant 1.10.9, Firefox 78.6.0esr, Node.js 12 12.19.1, OpenSSL 1.1.1i, Samba 4.13.1, Thunderbird 78.6.0, openldap2.4.55, pip 20.2.4, Ghostscript 9.53.3, libpng, libxml, sudo, tcpdump, vnc, xorg-server.
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