PKGS-7394 - Ubuntu upgrade packages

This information is provided as part of the Lynis community project. It is related to Lynis control PKGS-7394 and should be considered as-is and without guarantees. Any advice and commands should be tested before implementing them in production environments.

Control details
CategorySoftware
Application

Description

This control tests for available upgrades on Ubuntu. Depending on your software upgrade policy, determine if this control is too strict.

How to solve

Software upgrades and patches increase the stability and solve known bugs. In some cases they include security related issues, like software vulnerabilities. Companies need a "software patch management" process to properly assess these upgrades and updates, to ensure staying up-to-date and lowering operational risk.

Need more details?

Consider the upgrade to Lynis Enterprise to receive additional details and guidance. The Enterprise version helps to you with daily health checks of your environment, learn in-depth system hardening, and resources to protect your systems better.

See demo

About

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.

Lynis Enterprise

Do you need to collect data from multiple systems or compliance reporting? Lynis Enterprise uses Lynis to collect the data and make your work easier.

Benefits: automate security audits, detailed reporting, compliance testing.

  • Centralized management
  • Improvement plan with priorities
  • Reporting
  • Dashboards
  • Predefined policies
  • Integration (API)
  • Improvement snippets for tools like Ansible, Chef, Cfengine, Puppet, and SaltStack
Take the Tour