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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>,
1.36 deraadt 40: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 ! deraadt 41: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
! 42: <a href="errata.html">3.8</a>.
1.25 deraadt 43: <br>
1.1 deraadt 44: <hr>
45:
1.28 naddy 46: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 47: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
48: This file is updated once a day.
49:
1.14 ericj 50: <p>
1.27 deraadt 51: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.14 ericj 52: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
53:
1.1 deraadt 54: <hr>
55:
1.31 henning 56: <a name="all"></a>
57: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 58: <ul>
1.31 henning 59: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
60: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.5 deraadt 61: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
62: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.28 naddy 63: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.7 millert 64: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
65: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 66: <p>
1.31 henning 67: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
68: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 69: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.28 naddy 70: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 71: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
72: <p>
1.31 henning 73: <li><a name="atapi"></a>
74: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 75: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
76: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
77: A patch is
1.28 naddy 78: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 79: available here.</a>
80: <p>
1.31 henning 81: <li><a name="chpass"></a>
82: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 83: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
84: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.28 naddy 85: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 86: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
87: <p>
1.31 henning 88: <li><a name="resid"></a>
89: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 90: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
91: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.28 naddy 92: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 93: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
94: <p>
1.31 henning 95: <li><a name="inetd"></a>
96: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.28 naddy 98: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 99: available here.</a>
100: <p>
1.31 henning 101: <li><a name="unionfs"></a>
102: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 103: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.28 naddy 104: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 105: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
106: <p>
1.31 henning 107: <li><a name="fdalloc"></a>
108: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 109: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
110: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
111: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
112: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
113: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.28 naddy 114: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 115: available here.</a>
116: <p>
1.31 henning 117: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
118: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 119: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
120: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
121: to fix this is
1.28 naddy 122: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 123: available here.</a>
124: <p>
1.31 henning 125: <li><a name="xlib"></a>
126: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
128: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
129: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
130: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
131: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
132: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
133: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
134: problems.
135: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.28 naddy 136: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 137: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
138: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
139: <p>
1.31 henning 140: <li><a name="kill"></a>
141: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 142: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
143: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
144: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
145: problems of various kinds.
1.28 naddy 146: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 147: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
148: available.</a>
149: <p>
1.31 henning 150: <li><a name="immutable"></a>
151: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 152: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
153: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
154: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 155: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 156: when writes happen to the file.
1.28 naddy 157: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 158: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
159: <p>
1.31 henning 160: <li><a name="ipsec"></a>
161: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 162: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
163: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
164: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.28 naddy 165: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 166: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
167: <p>
1.31 henning 168: <a name="xterm-xaw"></a>
1.28 naddy 169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 170: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
171: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
172: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
173: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
174: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
175: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
176: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
177: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
178: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
179: these problems.
1.28 naddy 180: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 181: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
182: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
183: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
184: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
185: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
186: The files are...
1.28 naddy 187: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
188: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
189: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
190: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 191: mvme68k</a>,
1.28 naddy 192: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
193: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
194: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 195: and
1.28 naddy 196: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 197: <p>
198: </ul>
1.31 henning 199: <a name="i386"></a>
200: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 201: <ul>
1.31 henning 202: <li><a name="pctr"></a>
203: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 204: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
205: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
206: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
207: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
208: <p>
1.28 naddy 209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 210: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
211: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.28 naddy 212: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 213: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
214: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
215: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
216: <ul>
217: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
218: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
219: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
220: </ul>
221: <p>
1.31 henning 222: <a name="pcvt"></a>
1.28 naddy 223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 224: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
225: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
226: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
227: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
228: and plugging it back in.
1.28 naddy 229: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 230: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
231: <p>
232: </ul>
1.31 henning 233: <a name="mac68k"></a>
234: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 235: <ul>
236: <li>No problems identified yet.
237: <p>
238: </ul>
1.31 henning 239: <a name="sparc"></a>
240: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 241: <ul>
1.28 naddy 242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 243: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
244: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.28 naddy 245: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 246: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
247: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.28 naddy 248: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
249: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 250: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.28 naddy 251: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 252: <p>
253: </ul>
1.31 henning 254: <a name="amiga"></a>
255: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 256: <ul>
1.28 naddy 257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 258: The AmigaOS patch
259: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
260: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
261: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
262: problem, be sure to execute
263: <pre>
264: PoolMem remove
265: </pre>
266: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
267: PoolMem-aware.
268: <p>
269: </ul>
1.31 henning 270: <a name="pmax"></a>
271: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 272: <ul>
1.28 naddy 273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 274: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
275: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
276: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
277: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
278: <p>
1.28 naddy 279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 280: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
281: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
282: <p>
1.31 henning 283: <pre>
284: cd /usr/lib/
285: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
286: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 287: <p>
1.28 naddy 288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 289: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
290: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
291: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
292: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
293: <p>
1.31 henning 294: <pre>
295: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
296: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 297: <p>
1.28 naddy 298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 299: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
300: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
301: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
302: <p>
1.31 henning 303: <pre>
304: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
305: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
306: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 307: <p>
308: </ul>
1.31 henning 309: <a name="arc"></a>
310: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 311: <ul>
1.28 naddy 312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 313: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
314: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
315: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
316: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
317: <p>
1.28 naddy 318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 319: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
320: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
321: <p>
1.31 henning 322: <pre>
323: cd /usr/lib/
324: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
325: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 326: <p>
327: </ul>
1.31 henning 328: <a name="alpha"></a>
329: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 330: <ul>
1.28 naddy 331: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 332: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
333: there really is no such option.
334: <p>
335: </ul>
1.31 henning 336: <a name="hp300"></a>
337: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 338: <ul>
1.28 naddy 339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 340: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
341: there really is no such option.
342: <p>
1.28 naddy 343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 344: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 345: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
346: <p>
347: </ul>
1.31 henning 348: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
349: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 350: <ul>
351: <li>No problems identified yet.
352: <p>
353: </ul>
1.31 henning 354: <a name="powerpc"></a>
355: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 356: <ul>
1.28 naddy 357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 358: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
359: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.28 naddy 360: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
361: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 362: the system if those subsystems are used.
363: <p>
364: </ul>
1.10 deraadt 365:
1.1 deraadt 366: <br>
367:
368: <hr>
1.13 jason 369: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.25 deraadt 370: <br>
1.26 deraadt 371: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.25 deraadt 372: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
373: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
374: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
375: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
376: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
377: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
378: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
379: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
380: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
381: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 382: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 383: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 384: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 miod 385: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.36 deraadt 386: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 ! deraadt 387: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
! 388: <a href="errata.html">3.8</a>.
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