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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>
1.141 ! deraadt 30: <a name=atapi></a>
! 31: <li><font color=#009000><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
! 32: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
! 33: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
! 34: A patch is
! 35: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch>
! 36: available here.</a>
! 37: <p>
1.140 millert 38: <a name=chpass></a>
39: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
40: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
41: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
42: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch>
43: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
44: <p>
1.138 deraadt 45: <a name=resid></a>
46: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
47: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
1.139 millert 48: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.138 deraadt 49: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch>
50: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
51: <p>
52: <a name=inetd></a>
1.135 deraadt 53: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
54: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
55: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch>
56: available here.</a>
57: <p>
1.133 deraadt 58: <a name=unionfs></a>
59: <li><font color=#009000><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
60: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
61: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch>
62: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
63: <p>
1.131 deraadt 64: <a name=fdalloc></a>
65: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
66: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
67: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
68: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
69: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
70: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.132 deraadt 71: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch>
1.131 deraadt 72: available here.</a>
73: <p>
1.120 matthieu 74: <a name=xlib></a>
75: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
76: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
77: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
78: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
79: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
80: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
81: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
82: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
83: problems.
1.121 deraadt 84: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
85: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch>
86: A source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
87: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
1.120 matthieu 88: <p>
1.116 deraadt 89: <a name=kill></a>
90: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
91: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
92: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
93: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
94: problems of various kinds.
95: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch>
1.125 deraadt 96: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
1.117 deraadt 97: available.</a>
1.116 deraadt 98: <p>
1.108 deraadt 99: <a name=immutable></a>
100: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.109 deraadt 101: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
102: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
103: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
104: writeable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
105: when writes happen to the file.
1.108 deraadt 106: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch>
107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
1.102 deraadt 109: <a name=ipsec></a>
110: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
111: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
1.103 deraadt 112: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
113: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.102 deraadt 114: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch>
115: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.106 deraadt 116: <p>
1.99 matthieu 117: <a name=xterm-xaw></a>
118: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
119: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
1.103 deraadt 120: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
121: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
122: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
123: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
124: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
125: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
126: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
127: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
128: these problems.
1.99 matthieu 129: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch>
1.101 deraadt 130: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
1.107 deraadt 131: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
132: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
133: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
134: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
135: The files are...
1.118 deraadt 136: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz>i386</a>,
137: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz>alpha</a>,
138: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz>mac68k</a>,
139: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz>
1.105 deraadt 140: mvme68k</a>,
1.118 deraadt 141: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz>hp300</a>,
142: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz>sparc</a>,
143: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz>pmax</a>,
1.105 deraadt 144: and
1.118 deraadt 145: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz>arc</a>.
1.86 millert 146: <p>
1.25 deraadt 147: </ul>
1.42 deraadt 148: <a name=i386></a>
1.67 deraadt 149: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 150: <ul>
1.124 deraadt 151: <a name=pctr></a>
152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
153: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
154: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
155: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
156: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
157: <p>
1.104 niklas 158: <li><font color=#009000><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
159: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
160: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.107 deraadt 161: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz>
1.104 niklas 162: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
163: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
164: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
165: <ul>
166: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
167: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
168: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
169: </ul>
1.39 deraadt 170: <p>
1.130 millert 171: <a name=pcvt></a>
172: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
173: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
174: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
175: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
176: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
177: and plugging it back in.
178: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch>
179: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
180: <p>
1.39 deraadt 181: </ul>
1.47 deraadt 182: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 183: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
1.39 deraadt 184: <ul>
1.93 deraadt 185: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.70 gene 186: <p>
1.25 deraadt 187: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 188: <a name=sparc></a>
1.67 deraadt 189: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 190: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
192: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
1.98 deraadt 193: (ie. Sparc Classic).
194: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch>
195: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.115 deraadt 196: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
197: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd>bsd</a> and
198: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3>bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.123 deraadt 199: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
200: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc>also available</a>.
1.63 marc 201: <p>
1.39 deraadt 202: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 203: <a name=amiga></a>
1.67 deraadt 204: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 205: <ul>
1.134 espie 206: <li><font color=#009000><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
207: The AmigaOS patch
208: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
209: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
210: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
211: problem, be sure to execute
212: <pre>
213: PoolMem remove
214: </pre>
215: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
216: PoolMem-aware.
1.39 deraadt 217: <p>
1.25 deraadt 218: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 219: <a name=pmax></a>
1.67 deraadt 220: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 221: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
223: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 224: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
225: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
226: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.39 deraadt 227: <p>
1.112 deraadt 228: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.119 ryker 229: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
1.113 deraadt 230: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
231: <p>
1.110 millert 232: <ul>
233: cd /usr/lib/
234: <br>
235: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
236: </ul>
237: <p>
1.129 jason 238: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
239: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
240: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
241: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
242: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
243: <p>
244: <ul>
245: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
246: </ul>
247: <p>
1.112 deraadt 248: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.110 millert 249: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
250: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
251: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
1.113 deraadt 252: <p>
1.110 millert 253: <ul>
1.114 millert 254: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
1.110 millert 255: <br>
1.114 millert 256: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
1.110 millert 257: </ul>
258: <p>
1.25 deraadt 259: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 260: <a name=arc></a>
1.67 deraadt 261: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
1.59 deraadt 262: <ul>
1.100 deraadt 263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
264: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
1.97 deraadt 265: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
266: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
267: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
1.69 deraadt 268: <p>
1.112 deraadt 269: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.119 ryker 270: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
1.113 deraadt 271: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
272: <p>
1.111 deraadt 273: <ul>
274: cd /usr/lib/
275: <br>
276: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
277: </ul>
278: <p>
1.59 deraadt 279: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 280: <a name=alpha></a>
1.67 deraadt 281: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
1.56 deraadt 282: <ul>
1.110 millert 283: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
284: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
285: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 286: <p>
287: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 288: <a name=hp300></a>
1.67 deraadt 289: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
1.110 millert 290: <ul>
291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
292: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
293: there really is no such option.
1.56 deraadt 294: <p>
1.110 millert 295: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
296: Unlabelled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
297: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
1.56 deraadt 298: <p>
299: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 300: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 301: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 302: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 303: <li>No problems identified yet.
304: <p>
1.25 deraadt 305: </ul>
1.95 deraadt 306: <a name=powerpc></a>
307: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
308: <ul>
309: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
310: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
311: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
312: <a href=errata22.html#rmjob>rmjob</a> and
313: <a href=errata22.html#uucpd>uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
314: the system if those subsystems are used.
315: <p>
316: </ul>
1.25 deraadt 317: </ul>
318: <br>
1.75 deraadt 319:
1.25 deraadt 320: <hr>
1.93 deraadt 321: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
322: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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