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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>
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24: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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35:
36: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz>
37: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
38: This file is updated once a day.
39:
1.14 ericj 40: <p>
41: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
42: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
43:
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45:
1.10 deraadt 46: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 47: <a name=all></a>
48: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
49: <ul>
1.5 deraadt 50: <a name=bootpd></a>
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
52: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
53: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.6 deraadt 54: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch>
1.7 millert 55: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
56: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 57: <p>
1.2 deraadt 58: <a name=tcpfix></a>
59: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
60: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.6 deraadt 61: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch>
1.2 deraadt 62: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
63: <p>
1.1 deraadt 64: <a name=atapi></a>
65: <li><font color=#009000><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
66: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
67: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
68: A patch is
69: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch>
70: available here.</a>
71: <p>
72: <a name=chpass></a>
73: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
74: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
75: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
76: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch>
77: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
78: <p>
79: <a name=resid></a>
80: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
81: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
82: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
83: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch>
84: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
85: <p>
86: <a name=inetd></a>
87: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
88: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
89: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch>
90: available here.</a>
91: <p>
92: <a name=unionfs></a>
93: <li><font color=#009000><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
94: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
95: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch>
96: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
97: <p>
98: <a name=fdalloc></a>
99: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
100: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
101: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
102: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
103: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
104: 0, 1, and 2 is
105: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch>
106: available here.</a>
107: <p>
1.20 mpech 108: <a name=resolver></a>
1.1 deraadt 109: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 110: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
111: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
112: to fix this is
113: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch>
114: available here.</a>
115: <p>
116: <a name=xlib></a>
117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 118: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
119: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
120: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
121: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
122: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
123: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
124: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
125: problems.
126: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
127: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch>
128: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
129: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
130: <p>
131: <a name=kill></a>
132: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
133: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
134: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
135: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
136: problems of various kinds.
137: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch>
138: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
139: available.</a>
140: <p>
141: <a name=immutable></a>
142: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
143: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
144: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
145: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 146: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 147: when writes happen to the file.
148: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch>
149: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
150: <p>
151: <a name=ipsec></a>
152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
153: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
154: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
155: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
156: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch>
157: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
158: <p>
159: <a name=xterm-xaw></a>
160: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
161: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
162: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
163: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
164: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
165: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
166: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
167: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
168: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
169: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
170: these problems.
171: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch>
172: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
173: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
174: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
175: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
176: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
177: The files are...
178: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz>i386</a>,
179: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz>alpha</a>,
180: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz>mac68k</a>,
181: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz>
182: mvme68k</a>,
183: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz>hp300</a>,
184: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz>sparc</a>,
185: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz>pmax</a>,
186: and
187: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz>arc</a>.
188: <p>
189: </ul>
190: <a name=i386></a>
191: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
192: <ul>
193: <a name=pctr></a>
194: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
195: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
196: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
197: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
198: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
199: <p>
200: <li><font color=#009000><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
201: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
202: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
203: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz>
204: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
205: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
206: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
207: <ul>
208: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
209: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
210: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
211: </ul>
212: <p>
213: <a name=pcvt></a>
214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
215: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
216: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
217: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
218: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
219: and plugging it back in.
220: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch>
221: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
222: <p>
223: </ul>
224: <a name=mac68k></a>
225: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
226: <ul>
227: <li>No problems identified yet.
228: <p>
229: </ul>
230: <a name=sparc></a>
231: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
232: <ul>
233: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
234: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
235: (ie. Sparc Classic).
236: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch>
237: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
238: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
239: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd>bsd</a> and
240: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3>bsd.scsi3</a>.
241: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
242: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc>also available</a>.
243: <p>
244: </ul>
245: <a name=amiga></a>
246: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
247: <ul>
248: <li><font color=#009000><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
249: The AmigaOS patch
250: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
251: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
252: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
253: problem, be sure to execute
254: <pre>
255: PoolMem remove
256: </pre>
257: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
258: PoolMem-aware.
259: <p>
260: </ul>
261: <a name=pmax></a>
262: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
263: <ul>
264: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
265: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
266: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
267: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
268: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
269: <p>
270: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
271: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
272: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
273: <p>
274: <ul>
275: cd /usr/lib/
276: <br>
277: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
278: </ul>
279: <p>
280: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
281: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
282: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
283: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
284: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
285: <p>
286: <ul>
287: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
288: </ul>
289: <p>
290: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
291: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
292: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
293: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
294: <p>
295: <ul>
296: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
297: <br>
298: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
299: </ul>
300: <p>
301: </ul>
302: <a name=arc></a>
303: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
304: <ul>
305: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
306: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
307: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
308: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
309: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
310: <p>
311: <li><font color=#009000><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
312: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
313: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
314: <p>
315: <ul>
316: cd /usr/lib/
317: <br>
318: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
319: </ul>
320: <p>
321: </ul>
322: <a name=alpha></a>
323: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
324: <ul>
325: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
326: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
327: there really is no such option.
328: <p>
329: </ul>
330: <a name=hp300></a>
331: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
332: <ul>
333: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
334: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
335: there really is no such option.
336: <p>
337: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 338: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 339: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
340: <p>
341: </ul>
342: <a name=mvme68k></a>
343: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
344: <ul>
345: <li>No problems identified yet.
346: <p>
347: </ul>
348: <a name=powerpc></a>
349: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
350: <ul>
351: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
352: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
353: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
354: <a href=errata22.html#rmjob>rmjob</a> and
355: <a href=errata22.html#uucpd>uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
356: the system if those subsystems are used.
357: <p>
358: </ul>
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366: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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