The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments 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. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Synopsis pca option operand description pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Oracle acquired sun microsystems in 2010, and since that time oracles hardware and software engineers have worked sidebyside to build fully integrated systems and optimized solutions designed to achieve performance levels that are unmatched in the industry. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. This will provide you with all the most important solaris patches in a single bundle with a simple to use installation script. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os. This version of pca patch check advanced allows to maintain solaris os patches using oracle solaris premier subscriptions and oracle csi account instead of the sunsolve account with sun contract. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. 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. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you.
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. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. The sunpci iii is supported on solaris 10 with patches, but sunpci ii is not. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Note the oracle solaris 10 106 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. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Meltdown and spectre patches now available for oracle systems by nick heath nick heath is a computer science student and was formerly a journalist at techrepublic. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
These patches are located in the varsadmpatch directory on an installed system. Jul 30, 20 in some cases we need to change default java version in solaris 10. Solaris 10 811 update 10 patchset now available oracle. Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. The recommended method of proactively applying patches is to use solaris live upgrade. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a. Meltdown and spectre patches now available for oracle.
For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. In this example i will change the default java version which is version 5 to version 6. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010 how can i uninstall the patch. 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. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you can start os patch bundle download. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. In some cases we need to change default java version in solaris 10. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a. 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.
Early examples include the oracle exadata database machine x28, and the first oracle exalogic elastic cloud, both introduced in late 2010. For this, we run a program called sunpcload to put these drivers into kernel use. Now that the supposed solaris 10 drivers for the sunpci cards are created, we need to implement them into the kernel before we can use them. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. However, since oracle took over, in my view there has been a loss of interest in small to mediumsized. Gerry haskins director security and release management. See patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle solaris 10 platforms for more information about the patches. However, you will end up with a nonglobal zone, even if your original system only had a single zone and if you use solaris but dont know what. Patch check advanced, pca, is a free tool that can be used to patch solaris systems. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Solaris live upgrade consists of a set of tools that enable users to create an alternate boot environment that is a mirror copy of the current boot partition and then patch the. Once again, i immediately reported this to suns patch team. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use.
Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. Oracle does provide a procedure called transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system, enabling you to port your solaris 10 global or nonglobal zone to solaris 11. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris.
Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Oct 05, 2011 hi, the update 10 patchset contains all patches which were available at the time it was created, including all cpu and recommended updates. The cards were not limited to just officially supported operating systems. For an example,if your systems are running with solaris 10 807 update4,then select that and select the right platform. One or more solaris patch fixlets available in the.
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. Oracle and sun microsystems strategic acquisitions oracle. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all our. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10.
Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. However, new recommended patches could have been released since the contents of update 10 were finalized. Unfortunately the old problem ive mentioned multiple times before is showing up again, too. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. The versions of ssh and sendmail that ship with solaris 10 will automatically use tcp wrappers to filter access if a hosts. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. Dec 11, 2010 in fact, oracle has migrated all sun servers hosting solaris patches to its own servers. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside of creating the update release.
Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10.
With rapid7 live dashboards, i have a clear view of all the assets on my network, which ones can be exploited, and what i need to do in order to reduce the risk in my environment in realtime. Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a valid support contract non gratis. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. The first version of the sunpci card was intended to run windows 95 or nt. The cool thing about this tool is that it actually resolves the dependencies between patches. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek.
Here is the steps to change default version of java in solaris 10 sparc. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. 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. Jan 22, 2017 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. Hello guysnewbie to solaris here i need to get this patch on my solaris 10 sparc machine. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Jun1517 this plugin has been deprecated and either replaced with individual 119059 patchrevision plugins, or deemed nonsecurity related. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose.
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