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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>
1.120 ! matthieu 30: <a name=xlib></a>
! 31: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
! 32: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
! 33: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
! 34: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
! 35: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
! 36: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
! 37: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
! 38: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
! 39: problems.
! 40: These problems are fixed in
! 41: <a href="http://www.xfree86.org/">XFree86</a> patch 2. A
! 42: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
! 43: source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
! 44: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree is available now.
! 45: <p>
1.116 deraadt 46: <a name=kill></a>
47: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
48: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
49: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
50: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
51: problems of various kinds.
52: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch>
1.117 deraadt 53: The second revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
54: available.</a>
1.116 deraadt 55: <p>
1.108 deraadt 56: <a name=immutable></a>
57: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.109 deraadt 58: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
59: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
60: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
61: writeable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
62: when writes happen to the file.
1.108 deraadt 63: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch>
64: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
65: <p>
1.102 deraadt 66: <a name=ipsec></a>
67: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
68: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
1.103 deraadt 69: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
70: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.102 deraadt 71: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch>
72: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.106 deraadt 73: <p>
1.99 matthieu 74: <a name=xterm-xaw></a>
75: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
76: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
1.103 deraadt 77: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
78: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
79: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
80: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
81: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
82: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
83: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
84: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
85: these problems.
1.99 matthieu 86: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch>
1.101 deraadt 87: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
1.107 deraadt 88: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
89: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
90: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
91: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
92: The files are...
1.118 deraadt 93: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz>i386</a>,
94: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz>alpha</a>,
95: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz>mac68k</a>,
96: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz>
1.105 deraadt 97: mvme68k</a>,
1.118 deraadt 98: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz>hp300</a>,
99: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz>sparc</a>,
100: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz>pmax</a>,
1.105 deraadt 101: and
1.118 deraadt 102: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz>arc</a>.
1.86 millert 103: <p>
1.25 deraadt 104: </ul>
1.42 deraadt 105: <a name=i386></a>
1.67 deraadt 106: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 107: <ul>
1.104 niklas 108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
109: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
110: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.107 deraadt 111: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz>
1.104 niklas 112: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
113: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
114: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
115: <ul>
116: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
117: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
118: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
119: </ul>
1.39 deraadt 120: <p>
121: </ul>
1.47 deraadt 122: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 123: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
1.39 deraadt 124: <ul>
1.93 deraadt 125: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.70 gene 126: <p>
1.25 deraadt 127: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 128: <a name=sparc></a>
1.67 deraadt 129: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 130: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
132: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
1.98 deraadt 133: (ie. Sparc Classic).
134: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch>
135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.115 deraadt 136: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
137: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd>bsd</a> and
138: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3>bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.63 marc 139: <p>
1.39 deraadt 140: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 141: <a name=amiga></a>
1.67 deraadt 142: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 143: <ul>
144: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.39 deraadt 145: <p>
1.25 deraadt 146: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 147: <a name=pmax></a>
1.67 deraadt 148: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 149: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 150: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
151: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 152: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
153: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
154: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.39 deraadt 155: <p>
1.112 deraadt 156: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.119 ryker 157: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
1.113 deraadt 158: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
159: <p>
1.110 millert 160: <ul>
161: cd /usr/lib/
162: <br>
163: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
164: </ul>
165: <p>
1.112 deraadt 166: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.110 millert 167: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
168: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
169: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
1.113 deraadt 170: <p>
1.110 millert 171: <ul>
1.114 millert 172: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
1.110 millert 173: <br>
1.114 millert 174: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
1.110 millert 175: </ul>
176: <p>
1.25 deraadt 177: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 178: <a name=arc></a>
1.67 deraadt 179: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
1.59 deraadt 180: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 181: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
182: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 183: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
184: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
185: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.69 deraadt 186: <p>
1.112 deraadt 187: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.119 ryker 188: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
1.113 deraadt 189: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
190: <p>
1.111 deraadt 191: <ul>
192: cd /usr/lib/
193: <br>
194: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
195: </ul>
196: <p>
1.59 deraadt 197: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 198: <a name=alpha></a>
1.67 deraadt 199: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
1.56 deraadt 200: <ul>
1.110 millert 201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
202: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
203: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 204: <p>
205: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 206: <a name=hp300></a>
1.67 deraadt 207: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
1.110 millert 208: <ul>
209: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
210: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
211: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 212: <p>
1.110 millert 213: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
214: Unlabelled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
215: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
1.56 deraadt 216: <p>
217: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 218: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 219: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 220: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 221: <li>No problems identified yet.
222: <p>
1.25 deraadt 223: </ul>
1.95 deraadt 224: <a name=powerpc></a>
225: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
226: <ul>
227: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
228: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
229: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
230: <a href=errata22.html#rmjob>rmjob</a> and
231: <a href=errata22.html#uucpd>uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
232: the system if those subsystems are used.
233: <p>
234: </ul>
1.25 deraadt 235: </ul>
236: <br>
1.75 deraadt 237:
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1.93 deraadt 239: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
240: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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