Rng system is used to generate random numbers, which utilizes both hardware. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. The prng tries to ensure that the output does not reveal any information about the seed, and that somebody observing the output cannot predict future outputs without knowing the seed. Prng is not seeded if you get a message prng is not seeded when trying to run ssh, you probably have an issue with the devrandom andor devurandom devices on your system. This flaw is not present on solaris 11 nor on solaris 10 with critical patches installed since january 21, 2012, nor systems running solaris 10 update 11. If you get a message prng is not seeded when trying to run ssh, you probably. Mathrandommtauto autoseeded mersenne twister prngs. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user.
Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Assigning to andrew since he is assigned that patch too. As a result, the following scriptspecial patches are not made available for customers because they are not required outside. But no ssh process running on it and when i search for sshd file, i am not able to see it in either usr or etc. Prng is not seeded hornetbloke technicaluser 15 aug 02 02. These devices are created during system installation, but may. These devices are created during system installation, but may sometimes be missing after an aix upgrade. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. I highly recommend upgrading to a current release, either solaris 10 update 9 or solaris 11 express. Cant ping default router in solaris 10 the system apparently came up, but without network connectivity. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Not listed are a number of more recent tests under redhat linux, os x, freebsd, and others.
Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Simply ln s random devurandom and openssl and thus stunnel will find entropy for you automatically. If you are running solaris, snag the sunwski patch, which will create devrandom for you. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Is ssh not installed on my machine, and if not how can i can download the ssh and install it. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. A brief search also reveals linux patches that replace the default implementation with fortuna. On solaris 8 you could install patch 112438 to get devrandom and devurandom devices. If you are using solaris 8, you can add devurandom and devrandom. A random number generator rng is a device that generates a sequence of numbers or symbols that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by a random chance. 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. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems. How to configure solaris 10 probe based ipmp how to configure solaris 10 link based ipmp solaris ip multipathing provides the high availability and load balancing capability to the networking stack.
This uses an entropy gathering mechanism which creates random numbers which are very difficult to predict. I like sun, but i dont trust them to maintain ssh properly and fix bugs in a timely fashion. All patches and packages are installed but when i try to create the keys below is. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs july 4, 2012 by lingeswaran r leave a comment we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Youll get a pause of a few seconds depending on the size of your seedfile and the speed of your machine and then voila, prngd is up and running. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Periodically reseed your prng as observing a large amount of prng output generated using one seed may allow the attacker to determine the seed and thus predict all future outputs. However, this string is not necessarily or at all updated when applying a recommended patch cluster, and may not be relied upon by any code. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. Aescounterrng is about 10x faster than sha1prng, which iirc is itself two or three. The recommended method of proactively applying patches is to use solaris live upgrade. The compilation seems to go well but when i run named with t nithr u nithr named fails to start and i get daemon. Then yes, youre running an old solaris express development release.
To get this to work automatically you need to add one line to etcrc. By bypassing the internal secure seeding mechanism of the sha1prng, you may compromise the security of your prng output. The problem is that devrandom devices are not there after a reboot. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones.
Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. I have recently conducted a study to learn how i could seed the openssl pseudo random number generator with a longer string of unpredictable data. Patches are packages, packages live in in a directory tree for each package which is here. It is not the same as upgrading to solaris 10 1 available here, as upgrading will additionally install any new packages delivered in the update. Required patches for solaris 10 bmc proactivenet 9.
I am attaching patch files against todays snapshots 20110714 for the 1. The solaris prng patch 112438 as mentioned in the faq is installed. This may or may not be a problem whether or not you can induce enough forks to manage to get the right pid will depend on application. If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services when you add a patch, the patchadd command calls the pkgadd command to install the patch packages from the patch directory to a local systems disk. 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.
This module provides prngs that are based on the mersenne twister. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Added a new algorithm in the sun provider called nativeprng. I have been trying to get ssh installed on a complete and fresh installation of solaris 8. I have multiple machines running this service and they have been working fine for months. 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. For customers that do not wish to avail of extended support and would like to access the last recommended patchsets created prior to the beginning of extended support for solaris 10, the january 2018 critical patch updates cpus for solaris 10 will remain available to those with premier operating system support. This is a big deal on may th, 2008 the debian project announced that luciano bello found an interesting vulnerability in the openssl package they were distributing. The machine is across town, so i cant check the cable just now, outside of that, is there anything else i can check. The bug 7051516 was found in threadlocalrandom that is now fixed in java 7 update 2, which generated same sequence of random numbers as the seed value was not initialized. 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. Prng not seeded for nonroot users bdfry technicaluser aug 02 15.
Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Is ssh not installed on my machine, and if not how can i can download the ssh and install it on my sunos. Overall, there have been hundreds of restarts of the service without problems. Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. 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. The problem you referenced about devrandom is not with the. Moreover, there is a bug 6955840 that is fixed in java 7, which did not set the seed value while using random seed constructor. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. Oracle solaris 11 oracle solaris 10 oracle solaris cluster oracle developer studio perspectives. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. Random pool not yet seeded could not bind socket to varspoolprngdpool.
The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. Prng is not seeded and was able to resolve it by creating a directory in dev called urandom and then creating a link to varspoolprngdpool in it. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. Evaluation im working on a cleanup of the securerandom implementations, and found the previous evaluation to be not very helpful. Random number bug in debian linux schneier on security. This patchset can be applied to any existing solaris 10 system to bring all preexisting packages up to the same software level as solaris 10 1. Openssl frequently asked questions misc miscellaneous questions which is the current version of openssl. The problem is that devrandom devices are not there after a reboot the solution is simple. More discussions in solaris 10 this discussion is archived.
For a customer on an early version of solaris 10, such as solaris 10 0305, solaris 10 106 update 1, or solaris 10 606 update 2, there is a very significant amount of code change delivered, for example, in the current kernel patch compared with the original kernels delivered in these releases. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. The solaris 10 807 kernel patch, 12001110, is approximately 166 mbytes. There are some linux kernel patches allowing one to use more entropy. Earlier versions do not seed the sha1prng securely. Secure shell ssh is a protocol that provides a secure, remote connection to any device with ssh support. Setup the pseudo random number generator daemon mkdir varspoolprngd. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. 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. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. In most cases it is fine to apply the patch cluster in a system running in multiuser mode. Note that this does not apply if you are applying the patch cluster to an alternate boot environment.
Patches are not necessarily applied in chronological order. I have fixed the prng not seeded error with ssl, and i am still experiencing the same repeatable core dumps when using openldap 2. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. Random number generators can be true hardware randomnumber generators hrng, which generate genuinely random numbers, or pseudorandom number generators prng, which generate numbers that look. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. These commands are used as seed in the prng algorithms because they have a good randomness property. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris.
As far as i know patches were never made available for that. I think it did fix problems on solaris, as long as the user is running egd and set up randfile env. Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris. But after applying a simple patch, i am unable to track down the bug any further. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. It makes sure to avoid any single point of failure on network side. In the worst case you can create a file or files with random data for example copy sections of your running kernel to a file and use them to seed the data. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. There are no callers in solaris that provide a non 0 value for. Solaris random number generation oracle solaris blog. 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 newly created boot partition prior to making it live. 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. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
It is helpful to note that a server could not have its own key or could manage multiple keys. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating system or application for. 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.
The sited page lists observed flaws in the freebsd 5. Apr 19, 2017 this flaw is not present on solaris 11 nor on solaris 10 with critical patches installed since january 21, 2012, nor systems running solaris 10 update 11. Ssh is a substitute to berkeley rtools like telnet, rlogin, rsh and rcp which are not secure. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support.
It provides legacy compatibility and technical support and stable patch management. Nov 27, 2018 the mersenne twister is a fast pseudorandom number generator prng that is capable of providing large volumes 106004 of high quality pseudorandom data to applications that may exhaust available truly random data sources or systemprovided prngs such as rand. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. The readme file describes how to submit bug reports and patches to.
As of solaris 10, administrators can remove existing entropy sources or. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. 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. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. Written by michael felt no prng is not seeded message on aix. It unfortunately doesnt provide an api to find out when this happens, or to request failure instead of lowquality random numbers. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. This patch has been reported to be available as part of the following patches, ymmv. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. All patches and packages are installed but when i try to create the keys below is what i see. Find answers to prng is not seeded from the expert community at experts exchange.
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