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1.4 espie 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.3 release errata & patch list:
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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>,
1.38 ! deraadt 42: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
! 43: <a href="errata.html">3.9</a>.
1.25 deraadt 44: <br>
1.1 deraadt 45: <hr>
46:
1.28 naddy 47: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 48: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
49: This file is updated once a day.
50:
1.14 ericj 51: <p>
1.27 deraadt 52: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.14 ericj 53: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
54:
1.1 deraadt 55: <hr>
56:
1.31 henning 57: <a name="all"></a>
58: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 59: <ul>
1.31 henning 60: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
61: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.5 deraadt 62: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
63: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.28 naddy 64: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.7 millert 65: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
66: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 67: <p>
1.31 henning 68: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
69: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 70: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.28 naddy 71: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 72: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
73: <p>
1.31 henning 74: <li><a name="atapi"></a>
75: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 76: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
77: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
78: A patch is
1.28 naddy 79: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 80: available here.</a>
81: <p>
1.31 henning 82: <li><a name="chpass"></a>
83: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 84: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
85: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.28 naddy 86: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 87: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
88: <p>
1.31 henning 89: <li><a name="resid"></a>
90: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 91: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
92: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.28 naddy 93: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
1.31 henning 96: <li><a name="inetd"></a>
97: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 98: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.28 naddy 99: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 100: available here.</a>
101: <p>
1.31 henning 102: <li><a name="unionfs"></a>
103: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.28 naddy 105: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 106: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
107: <p>
1.31 henning 108: <li><a name="fdalloc"></a>
109: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 110: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
111: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
112: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
113: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
114: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.28 naddy 115: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: available here.</a>
117: <p>
1.31 henning 118: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
119: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 120: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
121: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
122: to fix this is
1.28 naddy 123: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 124: available here.</a>
125: <p>
1.31 henning 126: <li><a name="xlib"></a>
127: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 128: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
129: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
130: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
131: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
132: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
133: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
134: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
135: problems.
136: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.28 naddy 137: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 138: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
139: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
140: <p>
1.31 henning 141: <li><a name="kill"></a>
142: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
144: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
145: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
146: problems of various kinds.
1.28 naddy 147: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 148: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
149: available.</a>
150: <p>
1.31 henning 151: <li><a name="immutable"></a>
152: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 153: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
154: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
155: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 156: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 157: when writes happen to the file.
1.28 naddy 158: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 159: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
160: <p>
1.31 henning 161: <li><a name="ipsec"></a>
162: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 163: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
164: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
165: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.28 naddy 166: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
168: <p>
1.31 henning 169: <a name="xterm-xaw"></a>
1.28 naddy 170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 171: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
172: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
173: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
174: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
175: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
176: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
177: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
178: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
179: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
180: these problems.
1.28 naddy 181: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 182: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
183: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
184: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
185: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
186: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
187: The files are...
1.28 naddy 188: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
189: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
190: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
191: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 192: mvme68k</a>,
1.28 naddy 193: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
194: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
195: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 196: and
1.28 naddy 197: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 198: <p>
199: </ul>
1.31 henning 200: <a name="i386"></a>
201: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 202: <ul>
1.31 henning 203: <li><a name="pctr"></a>
204: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 205: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
206: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
207: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
208: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
209: <p>
1.28 naddy 210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 211: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
212: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.28 naddy 213: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 214: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
215: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
216: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
217: <ul>
218: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
219: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
220: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
221: </ul>
222: <p>
1.31 henning 223: <a name="pcvt"></a>
1.28 naddy 224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 225: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
226: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
227: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
228: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
229: and plugging it back in.
1.28 naddy 230: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 231: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
232: <p>
233: </ul>
1.31 henning 234: <a name="mac68k"></a>
235: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 236: <ul>
237: <li>No problems identified yet.
238: <p>
239: </ul>
1.31 henning 240: <a name="sparc"></a>
241: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 242: <ul>
1.28 naddy 243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 244: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
245: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.28 naddy 246: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 247: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
248: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.28 naddy 249: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
250: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 251: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.28 naddy 252: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 253: <p>
254: </ul>
1.31 henning 255: <a name="amiga"></a>
256: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 257: <ul>
1.28 naddy 258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 259: The AmigaOS patch
260: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
261: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
262: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
263: problem, be sure to execute
264: <pre>
265: PoolMem remove
266: </pre>
267: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
268: PoolMem-aware.
269: <p>
270: </ul>
1.31 henning 271: <a name="pmax"></a>
272: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 273: <ul>
1.28 naddy 274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 275: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
276: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
277: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
278: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
279: <p>
1.28 naddy 280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 281: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
282: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
283: <p>
1.31 henning 284: <pre>
285: cd /usr/lib/
286: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
287: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 288: <p>
1.28 naddy 289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 290: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
291: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
292: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
293: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
294: <p>
1.31 henning 295: <pre>
296: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
297: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 298: <p>
1.28 naddy 299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 300: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
301: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
302: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
303: <p>
1.31 henning 304: <pre>
305: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
306: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
307: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 308: <p>
309: </ul>
1.31 henning 310: <a name="arc"></a>
311: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 312: <ul>
1.28 naddy 313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 314: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
315: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
316: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
317: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
318: <p>
1.28 naddy 319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 320: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
321: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
322: <p>
1.31 henning 323: <pre>
324: cd /usr/lib/
325: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
326: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 327: <p>
328: </ul>
1.31 henning 329: <a name="alpha"></a>
330: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 331: <ul>
1.28 naddy 332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 333: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
334: there really is no such option.
335: <p>
336: </ul>
1.31 henning 337: <a name="hp300"></a>
338: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 339: <ul>
1.28 naddy 340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 341: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
342: there really is no such option.
343: <p>
1.28 naddy 344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 345: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 346: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
347: <p>
348: </ul>
1.31 henning 349: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
350: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 351: <ul>
352: <li>No problems identified yet.
353: <p>
354: </ul>
1.31 henning 355: <a name="powerpc"></a>
356: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 357: <ul>
1.28 naddy 358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 359: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
360: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.28 naddy 361: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
362: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 363: the system if those subsystems are used.
364: <p>
365: </ul>
1.10 deraadt 366:
1.1 deraadt 367: <br>
368:
369: <hr>
1.13 jason 370: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.25 deraadt 371: <br>
1.26 deraadt 372: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.25 deraadt 373: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
374: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
375: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
376: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
377: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
378: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
379: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
380: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
381: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
382: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 383: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 384: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 385: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 miod 386: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.36 deraadt 387: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 deraadt 388: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.38 ! deraadt 389: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
! 390: <a href="errata.html">3.9</a>.
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