GEN-0010 - Operating system end-of-life

This information is provided as part of the Lynis community project. It is related to Lynis control GEN-0010 and should be considered as-is and without guarantees. Any advice and commands should be tested before implementing them in production environments.

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Description

The operating system is end-of-life and does no longer receive updates

How to solve

Lynis detected that the operating system has reached its end-of-life. The vendor of the operating system does no longer provide updates. This means that newly discovered vulnerabilities or security issues can't be patched using a normal software update. The suggested action is to upgrade the system or deploy a new system and migrate the software and data.

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Lynis is a technical security auditing tool for Unix flavors like Linux, macOS, AIX, Solaris, and *BSD. It is open source software and free to use. Typical usage include system hardening, compliance testing, and vulnerability scanning. The project has an active community, including development via GitHub.

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