> On Dec 2, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Andy Fiddaman wrote:
>
> May be worth bumping the PCRE version.
Sure is. I followed this, but wasn't sure how deeply it might affect the user
base. Someone's asking, so I'll take care of it. I'll have to bump it on all
the releases.
Several CVEs have been filed against PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular
Expressions). All supported versions of OmniOS (r151006, r151014, and r151016)
have updates of PCRE to version 8.38.
This is a non-reboot-needed update, but you may need to restart certain
services, especially those not
Whilst playing around with the latest version of ClamAV I notice that it
now prints this warning:
configure: WARNING: The installed pcre version may contain a security bug.
Please upgrade to 8.38 or later: http://www.pcre.org.
There is some information on the security fixes in 8.38 at
You can look at /etc/release. It's on the 1st line.
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-Original Message-
From: Chris Siebenmann
To: omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com
Sent: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:30
Subject: [OmniOS-discuss] What's the best way to detect OmniOS version,
> On Dec 2, 2015, at 2:16 PM, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
>
> We have at least one shell script that needs to know if it's running
> on a host with OmniOS r151014 versus a host with an earlier OmniOS
> version (due to the change in ZFS pool reservations from 1/64th of the
>