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1.146 espie 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.4 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>
1.144 deraadt 24: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.94 deraadt 25: <hr>
26:
1.144 deraadt 27: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz>
1.142 deraadt 28: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
29: This file is updated once a day.
30:
31: <hr>
32:
1.25 deraadt 33: <ul>
1.43 deraadt 34: <a name=all></a>
1.67 deraadt 35: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 36: <ul>
1.168 ! deraadt 37: <a name=ping></a>
! 38: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
! 39: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
! 40: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch>
! 41: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
! 42: <p>
1.167 deraadt 43: <a name=ipqrace></a>
44: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
45: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
46: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch>
47: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
48: It must be installed after <a href=errata.html#maxqueue>the maxqueue patch</a>.
49: <p>
1.166 deraadt 50: <a name=accept></a>
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
52: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
53: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
54: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch>
55: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
56: <p>
1.165 deraadt 57: <a name=maxqueue></a>
58: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
59: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
60: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch>
61: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
62: <p>
1.163 millert 63: <a name=uio></a>
64: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
65: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
66: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
67: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch>
68: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
69: <p>
70: <a name=rst></a>
1.162 deraadt 71: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
72: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
73: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch>
74: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
75: <p>
1.154 millert 76: <a name=kvm_mkdb></a>
77: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
78: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
79: memory".
80: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch>
81: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
82: <p>
1.157 millert 83: <a name=nfs3_solaris7></a>
84: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
85: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
86: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in a error such as
87: "Inappropriate file type or format".
88: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch>
89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
1.153 millert 91: <a name=nfs3></a>
92: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
93: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
94: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
95: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
96: partition sizes.
97: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch>
98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
99: <p>
1.159 millert 100: <a name=termcap></a>
1.158 millert 101: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
102: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
103: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
104: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch>
105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
106: <br>
107: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
108: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz>i386</a>
109: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
110: <p>
111: <a name=terminfo></a>
1.150 millert 112: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.152 deraadt 113: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
114: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.150 millert 115: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch>
116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <br>
118: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
119: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
120: alpha and mips, use the
121: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz>
122: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
123: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz>
124: big endian</a> version.
125: <p>
1.148 deraadt 126: <a name=userdir></a>
127: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
128: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
129: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch>
130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
131: <p>
1.147 deraadt 132: <a name=bootpd></a>
133: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
134: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
135: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
136: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch>
1.151 millert 137: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
138: second version of the patch.
1.147 deraadt 139: <p>
1.145 deraadt 140: <a name=tcpfix></a>
141: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
142: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
143: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch>
144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.25 deraadt 146: </ul>
1.42 deraadt 147: <a name=i386></a>
1.67 deraadt 148: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 149: <ul>
1.164 deraadt 150: <a name=trctrap></a>
151: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
152: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
153: crash.
154: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch>
155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
156: <p>
1.155 deraadt 157: <a name=installboot></a>
158: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
159: i386 installboot had a sign extention bug which prevented proper bootblock
160: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.156 deraadt 161: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch>
1.155 deraadt 162: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
163: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
164: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
165: <p>
1.39 deraadt 166: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 167: <p>
1.47 deraadt 168: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 169: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
1.39 deraadt 170: <ul>
1.155 deraadt 171: <p>
1.93 deraadt 172: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 173: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 174: <p>
1.65 deraadt 175: <a name=sparc></a>
1.67 deraadt 176: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 177: <ul>
1.149 deraadt 178: <a name=hme></a>
179: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
180: The sparc hme(4) driver works poorly on some types of of SS-20 machines.
181: This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
182: bursting. No sun4m machines supprort that.
183: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch>
184: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
185: <p>
1.161 deraadt 186: <a name=le></a>
1.149 deraadt 187: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
188: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
189: sbus le(4) card.
190: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch>
191: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
192: <p>
1.39 deraadt 193: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 194: <a name=amiga></a>
1.67 deraadt 195: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 196: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 197: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 198: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 199: <p>
1.65 deraadt 200: <a name=pmax></a>
1.67 deraadt 201: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 202: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 203: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 204: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 205: <p>
1.65 deraadt 206: <a name=arc></a>
1.67 deraadt 207: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
1.59 deraadt 208: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 209: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.59 deraadt 210: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 211: <p>
1.93 deraadt 212: <a name=alpha></a>
1.67 deraadt 213: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
1.56 deraadt 214: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 215: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.56 deraadt 216: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 217: <p>
1.93 deraadt 218: <a name=hp300></a>
1.67 deraadt 219: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
1.110 millert 220: <ul>
1.161 deraadt 221: <a name=hp300X></a>
1.160 todd 222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
223: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
224: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
225: <p>
1.56 deraadt 226: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 227: <p>
1.93 deraadt 228: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 229: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 230: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 231: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 232: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 233: <p>
1.95 deraadt 234: <a name=powerpc></a>
235: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
236: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 237: <li>No problems identified yet.
238: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 239: <p>
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1.95 deraadt 242: <p>
243: </ul>
1.25 deraadt 244: <br>
1.75 deraadt 245:
1.25 deraadt 246: <hr>
1.93 deraadt 247: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
248: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.144 deraadt 249: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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