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  <img alt="[OpenBSD]" height=30 width=141 SRC="images/smalltitle.gif">
  <h2><font color=#0000e0>
- This is the OpenBSD 2.5 release errata &amp; patch list:
+ This is the OpenBSD 2.6 release errata &amp; patch list:
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  <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
  <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
  <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
+ <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
  <hr>
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz>
+ <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6.tar.gz>
  You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
  This file is updated once a day.
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  <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
  <ul>
  <a name=cron></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
+ <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 8, 1999</strong></font><br>
- In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
+ A race condition in newsyslog(8) can cause errors in log file rotation.
- run sendmail as the user, not as root.
+ <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/012_newsyslog.patch>
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch>
  A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
  <p>
- <a name=miscfs></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
- The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
- of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
- enabled by default).
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=profil></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
- Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=ipsec_in_use></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
- Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
- as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
- <a
- href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=rc></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
- In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
- to use -execdir.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=chflags></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
- Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
- block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=nroff></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
- Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
- to avoid various groff features which may be security issues.  On the
- whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
- BUGTRAQ as if it is.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=fts></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
- Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
- with a very large number of entries.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=tcpsack></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
- Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
- failure to retransmit correctly.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=ipsec1></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
- Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
- IPSEC ESP tunnel.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=bmap></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
- A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
- from an ext2fs partition.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
- <p>
- <a name=pfkey></a>
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
- PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
- system running an IPsec keymanagement daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
- will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
- of time.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
  </ul>
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  <a name=i386></a>
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  <a name=mac68k></a>
  <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
  <ul>
- <a name=macutils></a>
+ <li>No problems identified yet.
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
- The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
- the FTP install directories.  These tools have now been added to the
- FTP install directories.  See
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils>
- ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
- <p>
  </ul>
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  <a name=powerpc></a>
  <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
  <ul>
- <a name=powerpc_trap></a>
+ <li>No problems identified yet.
- <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
- Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
- unreliability.
- <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch>
- A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
- <p>
  </ul>
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  <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
  <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
  <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
+ <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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