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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>
1.174 deraadt 37: <a name=poll></a>
1.175 ! deraadt 38: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.174 deraadt 39: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
40: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch>
41: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
42: <p>
1.169 deraadt 43: <a name=nlink></a>
44: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
45: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
46: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch>
1.170 millert 47: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
48: is version four of the patch.</a>
1.169 deraadt 49: <p>
1.168 deraadt 50: <a name=ping></a>
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
52: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
53: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch>
54: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
55: <p>
1.167 deraadt 56: <a name=ipqrace></a>
57: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
58: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
59: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch>
60: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
61: It must be installed after <a href=errata.html#maxqueue>the maxqueue patch</a>.
1.172 deraadt 62: and <a href=errata.html#tcpfix>the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.167 deraadt 63: <p>
1.166 deraadt 64: <a name=accept></a>
65: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
66: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
67: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
68: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch>
69: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
70: <p>
1.165 deraadt 71: <a name=maxqueue></a>
72: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
73: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
74: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch>
75: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
76: <p>
1.163 millert 77: <a name=uio></a>
78: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
79: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
80: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
81: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch>
82: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
83: <p>
84: <a name=rst></a>
1.162 deraadt 85: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
86: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
87: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch>
88: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
89: <p>
1.154 millert 90: <a name=kvm_mkdb></a>
91: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
92: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
93: memory".
94: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch>
95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.157 millert 97: <a name=nfs3_solaris7></a>
98: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
99: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
100: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in a error such as
101: "Inappropriate file type or format".
102: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch>
103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
1.153 millert 105: <a name=nfs3></a>
106: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
107: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
108: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
109: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
110: partition sizes.
111: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch>
112: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
113: <p>
1.159 millert 114: <a name=termcap></a>
1.158 millert 115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
116: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
117: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
118: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch>
119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <br>
121: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
122: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz>i386</a>
123: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
124: <p>
125: <a name=terminfo></a>
1.150 millert 126: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.152 deraadt 127: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
128: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.150 millert 129: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch>
130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
131: <br>
132: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
133: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
134: alpha and mips, use the
135: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz>
136: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
137: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz>
138: big endian</a> version.
139: <p>
1.148 deraadt 140: <a name=userdir></a>
141: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
142: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
143: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch>
144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.147 deraadt 146: <a name=bootpd></a>
147: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
148: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
149: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
150: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch>
1.151 millert 151: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
152: second version of the patch.
1.147 deraadt 153: <p>
1.145 deraadt 154: <a name=tcpfix></a>
155: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
156: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
157: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch>
158: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
159: <p>
1.25 deraadt 160: </ul>
1.42 deraadt 161: <a name=i386></a>
1.67 deraadt 162: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 163: <ul>
1.174 deraadt 164: <a name=tss></a>
1.175 ! deraadt 165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.174 deraadt 166: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
167: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
168: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch>
169: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
170: <p>
1.171 deraadt 171: <a name=bootargv></a>
172: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
173: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
174: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
175: </strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
176: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
177: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
178: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
179: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
180: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch>
181: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
182: <p>
1.164 deraadt 183: <a name=trctrap></a>
184: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
185: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
186: crash.
187: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch>
188: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
189: <p>
1.155 deraadt 190: <a name=installboot></a>
191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
192: i386 installboot had a sign extention bug which prevented proper bootblock
193: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.156 deraadt 194: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch>
1.155 deraadt 195: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
196: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
197: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
198: <p>
1.39 deraadt 199: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 200: <p>
1.47 deraadt 201: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 202: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
1.39 deraadt 203: <ul>
1.155 deraadt 204: <p>
1.93 deraadt 205: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 206: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 207: <p>
1.65 deraadt 208: <a name=sparc></a>
1.67 deraadt 209: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 210: <ul>
1.149 deraadt 211: <a name=hme></a>
212: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.173 jason 213: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of of SS-20
214: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
215: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.149 deraadt 216: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch>
217: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
218: <p>
1.161 deraadt 219: <a name=le></a>
1.149 deraadt 220: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
221: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
222: sbus le(4) card.
223: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch>
224: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
225: <p>
1.39 deraadt 226: </ul>
1.93 deraadt 227: <a name=amiga></a>
1.67 deraadt 228: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 229: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 230: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 231: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 232: <p>
1.65 deraadt 233: <a name=pmax></a>
1.67 deraadt 234: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 235: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 236: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 237: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 238: <p>
1.65 deraadt 239: <a name=arc></a>
1.67 deraadt 240: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
1.59 deraadt 241: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 242: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.59 deraadt 243: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 244: <p>
1.93 deraadt 245: <a name=alpha></a>
1.67 deraadt 246: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
1.56 deraadt 247: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 248: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.56 deraadt 249: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 250: <p>
1.93 deraadt 251: <a name=hp300></a>
1.67 deraadt 252: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
1.110 millert 253: <ul>
1.161 deraadt 254: <a name=hp300X></a>
1.160 todd 255: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
256: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
257: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
258: <p>
1.56 deraadt 259: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 260: <p>
1.93 deraadt 261: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.67 deraadt 262: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
1.25 deraadt 263: <ul>
1.39 deraadt 264: <li>No problems identified yet.
1.25 deraadt 265: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 266: <p>
1.95 deraadt 267: <a name=powerpc></a>
268: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
269: <ul>
1.144 deraadt 270: <li>No problems identified yet.
271: </ul>
1.155 deraadt 272: <p>
1.144 deraadt 273:
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1.95 deraadt 275: <p>
276: </ul>
1.25 deraadt 277: <br>
1.75 deraadt 278:
1.25 deraadt 279: <hr>
1.93 deraadt 280: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
281: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.144 deraadt 282: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.2 deraadt 283: <hr>
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