Security fixes for privilege escalation, DoS, TLS spoofing and more
Juniper's code reviewers have been hard at work, and have shipped a bunch of security bug-fixes. First up: the company has turned up a bunch of Junos OS privilege escalation vulnerabilities that need patching. As the advisory states, CVE-2016-1271 covers a set of CLI commands that can be exploited to get root access to the affected system. As well as patching vulnerable systems, Juniper reminds sysadmins that CLI access should always be restricted to trusted hosts (as well as highly trusted sysa...