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 <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>  <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
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   <li><font color=#009000><strong>014: SECURITY FIX: Dec 22, 2000</strong></font><br>
   Improve xlock(1)'s authentication by authenticating via a pipe in an early forked process. No known vulnerability exists, this is just a precautionary patch.<br>
   <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/014_xlock.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem.</a>
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   In addition to a source code patch, new xlock binaries have been created for each architecture listed below. Place these binaries at <i>/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock</i>
    and <i>chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock</i>.
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   <ul>
   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/i386/xlock">Xlock - i386</a>
   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/sparc/xlock">Xlock - sparc</a>
   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/mac68k/xlock">Xlock - mac68k</a>
   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/powerpc/xlock">Xlock - powerpc</a>
   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/amiga/xlock">Xlock - amiga</a>
   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/hp300/xlock">Xlock - hp300</a>
   <li><a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/mvme68k/xlock">Xlock - mvme68k</a>
   </ul>
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 <li><font color=#009000><strong>013: SECURITY FIX: Dec 18, 2000</strong></font><br>  <li><font color=#009000><strong>013: SECURITY FIX: Dec 18, 2000</strong></font><br>
 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_procfs&sektion=8">Procfs</a> contained numerous overflows, which could lead an intruder to root permissions. Procfs is NOT enabled by default in OpenBSD. <br>  <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mount_procfs&sektion=8">Procfs</a> contained numerous overflows, which could lead an intruder to root permissions. Procfs is NOT enabled by default in OpenBSD. <br>
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 <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>  <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
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   <li><font color=#009000><strong>015: STABILITY FIX: Dec 22, 2000</strong></font><br>
   Some machines locked up while trying to use the mouse in console mode. This patch solves that problem.<br>
   <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/i386/015_pms.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
   <p>
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 <li><font color=#009000><strong>006: STABILITY FIX: Dec 4, 2000</strong></font><br>  <li><font color=#009000><strong>006: STABILITY FIX: Dec 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
 On some machines, a PCIBIOS device driver interrupt allocation bug can cause a  On some machines, a PCIBIOS device driver interrupt allocation bug can cause a
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