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1.93 deraadt 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.3 release errata & patch list:
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1.94 deraadt 21: <hr>
22: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
23: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
24: <hr>
25:
1.25 deraadt 26: <ul>
1.43 deraadt 27: <a name=all></a>
1.67 deraadt 28: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 29: <ul>
1.116 deraadt 30: <a name=kill></a>
31: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
32: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
33: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
34: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
35: problems of various kinds.
36: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch>
1.117 ! deraadt 37: The second revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
! 38: available.</a>
1.116 deraadt 39: <p>
1.108 deraadt 40: <a name=immutable></a>
41: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.109 deraadt 42: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
43: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
44: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
45: writeable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
46: when writes happen to the file.
1.108 deraadt 47: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch>
48: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
49: <p>
1.102 deraadt 50: <a name=ipsec></a>
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
52: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
1.103 deraadt 53: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
54: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.102 deraadt 55: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch>
56: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.106 deraadt 57: <p>
1.99 matthieu 58: <a name=xterm-xaw></a>
59: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
60: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
1.103 deraadt 61: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
62: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
63: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
64: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
65: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
66: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
67: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
68: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
69: these problems.
1.99 matthieu 70: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch>
1.101 deraadt 71: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
1.107 deraadt 72: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
73: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
74: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
75: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
76: The files are...
1.105 deraadt 77: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz>i386</a>,
78: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz>alpha</a>,
79: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz>mac68k</a>,
80: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz>
81: mvme68k</a>,
82: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz>hp300</a>,
83: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz>sparc</a>,
84: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz>pmax</a>,
85: and
86: <a href=href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz>arc</a>.
1.86 millert 87: <p>
1.25 deraadt 88: </ul>
1.42 deraadt 89: <a name=i386></a>
1.67 deraadt 90: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 91: <ul>
1.104 niklas 92: <li><font color=#009000><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
93: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
94: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.107 deraadt 95: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz>
1.104 niklas 96: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
97: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
98: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
99: <ul>
100: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
101: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
102: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
103: </ul>
1.39 deraadt 104: <p>
105: </ul>
1.47 deraadt 106: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 107: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
1.39 deraadt 108: <ul>
1.93 deraadt 109: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.70 gene 110: <p>
1.25 deraadt 111: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 112: <a name=sparc></a>
1.67 deraadt 113: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 114: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
116: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
1.98 deraadt 117: (ie. Sparc Classic).
118: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch>
119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.115 deraadt 120: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
121: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd>bsd</a> and
122: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3>bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.63 marc 123: <p>
1.39 deraadt 124: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 125: <a name=amiga></a>
1.67 deraadt 126: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 127: <ul>
128: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.39 deraadt 129: <p>
1.25 deraadt 130: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 131: <a name=pmax></a>
1.67 deraadt 132: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 133: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 134: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
135: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 136: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
137: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
138: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.39 deraadt 139: <p>
1.112 deraadt 140: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.111 deraadt 141: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the X
1.113 deraadt 142: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
143: <p>
1.110 millert 144: <ul>
145: cd /usr/lib/
146: <br>
147: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
148: </ul>
149: <p>
1.112 deraadt 150: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.110 millert 151: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
152: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
153: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
1.113 deraadt 154: <p>
1.110 millert 155: <ul>
1.114 millert 156: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
1.110 millert 157: <br>
1.114 millert 158: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
1.110 millert 159: </ul>
160: <p>
1.25 deraadt 161: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 162: <a name=arc></a>
1.67 deraadt 163: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
1.59 deraadt 164: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
166: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 167: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
168: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
169: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.69 deraadt 170: <p>
1.112 deraadt 171: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.111 deraadt 172: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the X
1.113 deraadt 173: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
174: <p>
1.111 deraadt 175: <ul>
176: cd /usr/lib/
177: <br>
178: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
179: </ul>
180: <p>
1.59 deraadt 181: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 182: <a name=alpha></a>
1.67 deraadt 183: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
1.56 deraadt 184: <ul>
1.110 millert 185: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
186: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
187: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 188: <p>
189: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 190: <a name=hp300></a>
1.67 deraadt 191: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
1.110 millert 192: <ul>
193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
194: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
195: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 196: <p>
1.110 millert 197: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
198: Unlabelled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
199: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
1.56 deraadt 200: <p>
201: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 202: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 203: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 204: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 205: <li>No problems identified yet.
206: <p>
1.25 deraadt 207: </ul>
1.95 deraadt 208: <a name=powerpc></a>
209: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
210: <ul>
211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
212: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
213: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
214: <a href=errata22.html#rmjob>rmjob</a> and
215: <a href=errata22.html#uucpd>uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
216: the system if those subsystems are used.
217: <p>
218: </ul>
1.25 deraadt 219: </ul>
220: <br>
1.75 deraadt 221:
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1.93 deraadt 223: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
224: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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