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1.4 espie 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.3 release errata & patch list:
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22: <hr>
1.13 jason 23: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.25 deraadt 24: <br>
1.26 deraadt 25: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.25 deraadt 26: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
27: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
28: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
29: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
30: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
31: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
32: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
33: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
34: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
35: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 36: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 37: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 ! miod 39: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
! 40: <a href="errata.html">3.6</a>.
1.25 deraadt 41: <br>
1.1 deraadt 42: <hr>
43:
1.28 naddy 44: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 45: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
46: This file is updated once a day.
47:
1.14 ericj 48: <p>
1.27 deraadt 49: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.14 ericj 50: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
51:
1.1 deraadt 52: <hr>
53:
1.31 henning 54: <a name="all"></a>
55: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 56: <ul>
1.31 henning 57: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
58: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.5 deraadt 59: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
60: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.28 naddy 61: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.7 millert 62: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
63: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 64: <p>
1.31 henning 65: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
66: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 67: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.28 naddy 68: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 69: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
70: <p>
1.31 henning 71: <li><a name="atapi"></a>
72: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 73: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
74: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
75: A patch is
1.28 naddy 76: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 77: available here.</a>
78: <p>
1.31 henning 79: <li><a name="chpass"></a>
80: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 81: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
82: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.28 naddy 83: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 84: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
85: <p>
1.31 henning 86: <li><a name="resid"></a>
87: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 88: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
89: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.28 naddy 90: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 91: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
92: <p>
1.31 henning 93: <li><a name="inetd"></a>
94: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 95: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.28 naddy 96: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 97: available here.</a>
98: <p>
1.31 henning 99: <li><a name="unionfs"></a>
100: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 101: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.28 naddy 102: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 103: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
104: <p>
1.31 henning 105: <li><a name="fdalloc"></a>
106: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
108: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
109: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
110: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
111: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.28 naddy 112: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 113: available here.</a>
114: <p>
1.31 henning 115: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
116: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 117: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
118: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
119: to fix this is
1.28 naddy 120: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 121: available here.</a>
122: <p>
1.31 henning 123: <li><a name="xlib"></a>
124: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 125: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
126: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
127: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
128: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
129: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
130: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
131: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
132: problems.
133: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.28 naddy 134: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
136: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
137: <p>
1.31 henning 138: <li><a name="kill"></a>
139: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 140: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
141: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
142: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
143: problems of various kinds.
1.28 naddy 144: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 145: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
146: available.</a>
147: <p>
1.31 henning 148: <li><a name="immutable"></a>
149: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 150: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
151: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
152: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 153: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 154: when writes happen to the file.
1.28 naddy 155: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
157: <p>
1.31 henning 158: <li><a name="ipsec"></a>
159: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 160: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
161: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
162: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.28 naddy 163: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 164: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
165: <p>
1.31 henning 166: <a name="xterm-xaw"></a>
1.28 naddy 167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 168: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
169: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
170: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
171: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
172: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
173: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
174: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
175: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
176: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
177: these problems.
1.28 naddy 178: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 179: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
180: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
181: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
182: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
183: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
184: The files are...
1.28 naddy 185: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
186: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
187: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
188: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 189: mvme68k</a>,
1.28 naddy 190: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
191: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
192: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 193: and
1.28 naddy 194: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 195: <p>
196: </ul>
1.31 henning 197: <a name="i386"></a>
198: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 199: <ul>
1.31 henning 200: <li><a name="pctr"></a>
201: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 202: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
203: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
204: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
205: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
206: <p>
1.28 naddy 207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 208: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
209: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.28 naddy 210: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 211: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
212: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
213: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
214: <ul>
215: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
216: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
217: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
218: </ul>
219: <p>
1.31 henning 220: <a name="pcvt"></a>
1.28 naddy 221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 222: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
223: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
224: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
225: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
226: and plugging it back in.
1.28 naddy 227: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 228: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
229: <p>
230: </ul>
1.31 henning 231: <a name="mac68k"></a>
232: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 233: <ul>
234: <li>No problems identified yet.
235: <p>
236: </ul>
1.31 henning 237: <a name="sparc"></a>
238: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 239: <ul>
1.28 naddy 240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 241: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
242: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.28 naddy 243: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 244: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
245: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.28 naddy 246: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
247: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 248: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.28 naddy 249: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 250: <p>
251: </ul>
1.31 henning 252: <a name="amiga"></a>
253: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 254: <ul>
1.28 naddy 255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 256: The AmigaOS patch
257: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
258: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
259: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
260: problem, be sure to execute
261: <pre>
262: PoolMem remove
263: </pre>
264: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
265: PoolMem-aware.
266: <p>
267: </ul>
1.31 henning 268: <a name="pmax"></a>
269: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 270: <ul>
1.28 naddy 271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 272: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
273: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
274: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
275: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
276: <p>
1.28 naddy 277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 278: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
279: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
280: <p>
1.31 henning 281: <pre>
282: cd /usr/lib/
283: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
284: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 285: <p>
1.28 naddy 286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 287: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
288: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
289: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
290: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
291: <p>
1.31 henning 292: <pre>
293: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
294: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 295: <p>
1.28 naddy 296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 297: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
298: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
299: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
300: <p>
1.31 henning 301: <pre>
302: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
303: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
304: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 305: <p>
306: </ul>
1.31 henning 307: <a name="arc"></a>
308: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 309: <ul>
1.28 naddy 310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 311: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
312: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
313: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
314: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
315: <p>
1.28 naddy 316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 317: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
318: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
319: <p>
1.31 henning 320: <pre>
321: cd /usr/lib/
322: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
323: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 324: <p>
325: </ul>
1.31 henning 326: <a name="alpha"></a>
327: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 328: <ul>
1.28 naddy 329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 330: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
331: there really is no such option.
332: <p>
333: </ul>
1.31 henning 334: <a name="hp300"></a>
335: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 336: <ul>
1.28 naddy 337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 338: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
339: there really is no such option.
340: <p>
1.28 naddy 341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 342: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 343: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
344: <p>
345: </ul>
1.31 henning 346: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
347: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 348: <ul>
349: <li>No problems identified yet.
350: <p>
351: </ul>
1.31 henning 352: <a name="powerpc"></a>
353: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 354: <ul>
1.28 naddy 355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 356: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
357: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.28 naddy 358: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
359: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 360: the system if those subsystems are used.
361: <p>
362: </ul>
1.10 deraadt 363:
1.1 deraadt 364: <br>
365:
366: <hr>
1.13 jason 367: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.25 deraadt 368: <br>
1.26 deraadt 369: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.25 deraadt 370: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
371: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
372: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
373: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
374: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
375: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
376: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
377: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
378: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
379: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 380: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 381: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 382: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 ! miod 383: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
! 384: <a href="errata.html">3.6</a>.
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