Annotation of www/errata.html, Revision 1.132
1.1 deraadt 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
2: <html>
3: <head>
1.64 deraadt 4: <title>OpenBSD release errata</title>
1.1 deraadt 5: <link rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>
6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
7: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD CD errata page">
8: <meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,cd,errata">
9: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.107 deraadt 10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1997-1998 by OpenBSD.">
1.1 deraadt 11: </head>
12:
13: <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#23238E">
14:
1.127 pauls 15: <img alt="[OpenBSD]" height=30 width=141 SRC="images/smalltitle.gif">
1.68 deraadt 16: <h2><font color=#0000e0>
1.93 deraadt 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.3 release errata & patch list:
1.94 deraadt 18:
1.96 deraadt 19: </font></h2>
20:
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>
1.131 deraadt 30: <a name=fdalloc></a>
31: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
32: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
33: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
34: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
35: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
36: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.132 ! deraadt 37: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch>
1.131 deraadt 38: available here.</a>
39: <p>
1.120 matthieu 40: <a name=xlib></a>
41: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
42: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
43: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
44: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
45: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
46: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
47: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
48: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
49: problems.
1.121 deraadt 50: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
51: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch>
52: A source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
53: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
1.120 matthieu 54: <p>
1.116 deraadt 55: <a name=kill></a>
56: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
57: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
58: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
59: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
60: problems of various kinds.
61: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch>
1.125 deraadt 62: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
1.117 deraadt 63: available.</a>
1.116 deraadt 64: <p>
1.108 deraadt 65: <a name=immutable></a>
66: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.109 deraadt 67: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
68: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
69: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
70: writeable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
71: when writes happen to the file.
1.108 deraadt 72: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch>
73: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
74: <p>
1.102 deraadt 75: <a name=ipsec></a>
76: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
77: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
1.103 deraadt 78: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
79: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.102 deraadt 80: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch>
81: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.106 deraadt 82: <p>
1.99 matthieu 83: <a name=xterm-xaw></a>
84: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
85: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
1.103 deraadt 86: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
87: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
88: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
89: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
90: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
91: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
92: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
93: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
94: these problems.
1.99 matthieu 95: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch>
1.101 deraadt 96: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
1.107 deraadt 97: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
98: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
99: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
100: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
101: The files are...
1.118 deraadt 102: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz>i386</a>,
103: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz>alpha</a>,
104: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz>mac68k</a>,
105: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz>
1.105 deraadt 106: mvme68k</a>,
1.118 deraadt 107: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz>hp300</a>,
108: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz>sparc</a>,
109: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz>pmax</a>,
1.105 deraadt 110: and
1.118 deraadt 111: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz>arc</a>.
1.86 millert 112: <p>
1.25 deraadt 113: </ul>
1.42 deraadt 114: <a name=i386></a>
1.67 deraadt 115: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 116: <ul>
1.124 deraadt 117: <a name=pctr></a>
118: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
119: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
120: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
121: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
122: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
123: <p>
1.104 niklas 124: <li><font color=#009000><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
125: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
126: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.107 deraadt 127: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz>
1.104 niklas 128: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
129: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
130: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
131: <ul>
132: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
133: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
134: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
135: </ul>
1.39 deraadt 136: <p>
1.130 millert 137: <a name=pcvt></a>
138: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
139: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
140: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
141: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
142: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
143: and plugging it back in.
144: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch>
145: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
146: <p>
1.39 deraadt 147: </ul>
1.47 deraadt 148: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 149: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
1.39 deraadt 150: <ul>
1.93 deraadt 151: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.70 gene 152: <p>
1.25 deraadt 153: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 154: <a name=sparc></a>
1.67 deraadt 155: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 156: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 157: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
158: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
1.98 deraadt 159: (ie. Sparc Classic).
160: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch>
161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.115 deraadt 162: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
163: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd>bsd</a> and
164: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3>bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.123 deraadt 165: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
166: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc>also available</a>.
1.63 marc 167: <p>
1.39 deraadt 168: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 169: <a name=amiga></a>
1.67 deraadt 170: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 171: <ul>
172: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.39 deraadt 173: <p>
1.25 deraadt 174: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 175: <a name=pmax></a>
1.67 deraadt 176: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 177: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
179: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 180: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
181: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
182: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.39 deraadt 183: <p>
1.112 deraadt 184: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.119 ryker 185: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
1.113 deraadt 186: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
187: <p>
1.110 millert 188: <ul>
189: cd /usr/lib/
190: <br>
191: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
192: </ul>
193: <p>
1.129 jason 194: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
195: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
196: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
197: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
198: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
199: <p>
200: <ul>
201: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
202: </ul>
203: <p>
1.112 deraadt 204: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.110 millert 205: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
206: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
207: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
1.113 deraadt 208: <p>
1.110 millert 209: <ul>
1.114 millert 210: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
1.110 millert 211: <br>
1.114 millert 212: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
1.110 millert 213: </ul>
214: <p>
1.25 deraadt 215: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 216: <a name=arc></a>
1.67 deraadt 217: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
1.59 deraadt 218: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 219: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
220: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 221: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
222: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
223: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.69 deraadt 224: <p>
1.112 deraadt 225: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.119 ryker 226: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
1.113 deraadt 227: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
228: <p>
1.111 deraadt 229: <ul>
230: cd /usr/lib/
231: <br>
232: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
233: </ul>
234: <p>
1.59 deraadt 235: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 236: <a name=alpha></a>
1.67 deraadt 237: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
1.56 deraadt 238: <ul>
1.110 millert 239: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
240: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
241: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 242: <p>
243: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 244: <a name=hp300></a>
1.67 deraadt 245: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
1.110 millert 246: <ul>
247: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
248: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
249: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 250: <p>
1.110 millert 251: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
252: Unlabelled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
253: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
1.56 deraadt 254: <p>
255: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 256: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 257: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 258: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 259: <li>No problems identified yet.
260: <p>
1.25 deraadt 261: </ul>
1.95 deraadt 262: <a name=powerpc></a>
263: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
264: <ul>
265: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
266: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
267: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
268: <a href=errata22.html#rmjob>rmjob</a> and
269: <a href=errata22.html#uucpd>uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
270: the system if those subsystems are used.
271: <p>
272: </ul>
1.25 deraadt 273: </ul>
274: <br>
1.75 deraadt 275:
1.25 deraadt 276: <hr>
1.93 deraadt 277: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
278: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.2 deraadt 279: <hr>
1.127 pauls 280: <a href=orders.html><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.2 deraadt 281: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
1.132 ! deraadt 282: <br><small>$OpenBSD: errata.html,v 1.131 1998/07/02 09:03:05 deraadt Exp $</small>
1.2 deraadt 283:
284: </body>
285: </html>
![[BACK]](/icons/back.gif){kind=icon}
Return to errata.html CVS log ![[TXT]](/icons/text.gif){kind=icon}
![[DIR]](/icons/dir.gif){kind=icon}
Up to [local] / www