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1.4 espie 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.3 release errata & patch list:
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1.13 jason 22: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.1 deraadt 23: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
24: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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34:
35: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz>
36: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
37: This file is updated once a day.
38:
1.14 ericj 39: <p>
40: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
41: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
42:
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44:
1.10 deraadt 45: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 46: <a name=all></a>
47: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
48: <ul>
1.5 deraadt 49: <a name=bootpd></a>
50: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
51: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
52: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.6 deraadt 53: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch>
1.7 millert 54: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
55: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 56: <p>
1.2 deraadt 57: <a name=tcpfix></a>
58: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
59: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.6 deraadt 60: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch>
1.2 deraadt 61: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
62: <p>
1.1 deraadt 63: <a name=atapi></a>
64: <li><font color=#009000><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
65: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
66: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
67: A patch is
68: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch>
69: available here.</a>
70: <p>
71: <a name=chpass></a>
72: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
73: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
74: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
75: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch>
76: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
77: <p>
78: <a name=resid></a>
79: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
80: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
81: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
82: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch>
83: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
84: <p>
85: <a name=inetd></a>
86: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
87: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
88: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch>
89: available here.</a>
90: <p>
91: <a name=unionfs></a>
92: <li><font color=#009000><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
93: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
94: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch>
95: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
96: <p>
97: <a name=fdalloc></a>
98: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
99: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
100: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
101: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
102: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
103: 0, 1, and 2 is
104: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch>
105: available here.</a>
106: <p>
1.20 mpech 107: <a name=resolver></a>
1.1 deraadt 108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 109: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
110: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
111: to fix this is
112: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch>
113: available here.</a>
114: <p>
115: <a name=xlib></a>
116: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 117: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
118: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
119: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
120: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
121: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
122: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
123: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
124: problems.
125: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
126: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch>
127: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
128: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
129: <p>
130: <a name=kill></a>
131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
132: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
133: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
134: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
135: problems of various kinds.
136: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch>
137: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
138: available.</a>
139: <p>
140: <a name=immutable></a>
141: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
142: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
143: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
144: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 145: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 146: when writes happen to the file.
147: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch>
148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: <p>
150: <a name=ipsec></a>
151: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
152: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
153: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
154: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
155: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch>
156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
157: <p>
158: <a name=xterm-xaw></a>
159: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
160: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
161: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
162: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
163: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
164: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
165: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
166: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
167: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
168: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
169: these problems.
170: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch>
171: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
172: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
173: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
174: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
175: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
176: The files are...
177: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz>i386</a>,
178: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz>alpha</a>,
179: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz>mac68k</a>,
180: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz>
181: mvme68k</a>,
182: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz>hp300</a>,
183: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz>sparc</a>,
184: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz>pmax</a>,
185: and
186: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz>arc</a>.
187: <p>
188: </ul>
189: <a name=i386></a>
190: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
191: <ul>
192: <a name=pctr></a>
193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
194: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
195: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
196: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
197: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
198: <p>
199: <li><font color=#009000><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
200: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
201: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
202: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz>
203: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
204: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
205: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
206: <ul>
207: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
208: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
209: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
210: </ul>
211: <p>
212: <a name=pcvt></a>
213: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
214: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
215: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
216: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
217: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
218: and plugging it back in.
219: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch>
220: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
221: <p>
222: </ul>
223: <a name=mac68k></a>
224: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
225: <ul>
226: <li>No problems identified yet.
227: <p>
228: </ul>
229: <a name=sparc></a>
230: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
231: <ul>
232: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
233: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
234: (ie. Sparc Classic).
235: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch>
236: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
237: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
238: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd>bsd</a> and
239: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3>bsd.scsi3</a>.
240: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
241: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc>also available</a>.
242: <p>
243: </ul>
244: <a name=amiga></a>
245: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
246: <ul>
247: <li><font color=#009000><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
248: The AmigaOS patch
249: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
250: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
251: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
252: problem, be sure to execute
253: <pre>
254: PoolMem remove
255: </pre>
256: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
257: PoolMem-aware.
258: <p>
259: </ul>
260: <a name=pmax></a>
261: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
262: <ul>
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
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.
268: <p>
269: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
270: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
271: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
272: <p>
273: <ul>
274: cd /usr/lib/
275: <br>
276: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
277: </ul>
278: <p>
279: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
280: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
281: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
282: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
283: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
284: <p>
285: <ul>
286: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
287: </ul>
288: <p>
289: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
290: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
291: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
292: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
293: <p>
294: <ul>
295: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
296: <br>
297: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
298: </ul>
299: <p>
300: </ul>
301: <a name=arc></a>
302: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
303: <ul>
304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
305: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
306: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
307: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
308: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
309: <p>
310: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
311: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
312: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
313: <p>
314: <ul>
315: cd /usr/lib/
316: <br>
317: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
318: </ul>
319: <p>
320: </ul>
321: <a name=alpha></a>
322: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
323: <ul>
324: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
325: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
326: there really is no such option.
327: <p>
328: </ul>
329: <a name=hp300></a>
330: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
331: <ul>
332: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
333: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
334: there really is no such option.
335: <p>
336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 337: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 338: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
339: <p>
340: </ul>
341: <a name=mvme68k></a>
342: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
343: <ul>
344: <li>No problems identified yet.
345: <p>
346: </ul>
347: <a name=powerpc></a>
348: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
349: <ul>
350: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
351: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
352: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
353: <a href=errata22.html#rmjob>rmjob</a> and
354: <a href=errata22.html#uucpd>uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
355: the system if those subsystems are used.
356: <p>
357: </ul>
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365: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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