Watch out for the update … it caused me some issues with Parallels Desktop. I 
got repeated crashes in dscl - the command line directory services utility. 
Apple must have plugged some thing Parallels was using. VMWare and VirtualBox 
are fine.

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> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:51:32 +0000
> From: Chris Jones <[email protected]>
> To: Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>
> Cc: MacPorts Users <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: High Sierra security advisory: set your root account
>       password
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> Hi,
> 
> A security patch is now available, so the work around is no long needed. See
> 
> https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208315
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> Chris
> 
>> On 29 Nov 2017, at 12:42 am, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> A vulnerability was discovered in macOS High Sierra (10.13, 10.13.1, 10.13.2 
>> beta) today that allows an attacker to gain root access to your system if 
>> your root account is disabled and has no password set (which is the 
>> default). If you are running High Sierra, please mitigate this attack by 
>> enabling your root account and setting a strong password for it.
>> 
>> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012
>> 
>> https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/28/macos-high-sierra-bug-admin-access/
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