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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>,
1.38 deraadt 42: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.39 deraadt 43: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.40 ! deraadt 44: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
! 45: <a href="errata.html">4.1</a>.
1.25 deraadt 46: <br>
1.1 deraadt 47: <hr>
48:
1.28 naddy 49: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 50: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
51: This file is updated once a day.
52:
1.14 ericj 53: <p>
1.27 deraadt 54: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.14 ericj 55: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
56:
1.1 deraadt 57: <hr>
58:
1.31 henning 59: <a name="all"></a>
60: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 61: <ul>
1.31 henning 62: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
63: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.5 deraadt 64: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
65: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.28 naddy 66: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.7 millert 67: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
68: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 69: <p>
1.31 henning 70: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
71: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 72: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.28 naddy 73: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 74: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
75: <p>
1.31 henning 76: <li><a name="atapi"></a>
77: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 78: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
79: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
80: A patch is
1.28 naddy 81: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 82: available here.</a>
83: <p>
1.31 henning 84: <li><a name="chpass"></a>
85: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 86: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
87: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.28 naddy 88: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
1.31 henning 91: <li><a name="resid"></a>
92: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
94: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.28 naddy 95: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 96: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
97: <p>
1.31 henning 98: <li><a name="inetd"></a>
99: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 100: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.28 naddy 101: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 102: available here.</a>
103: <p>
1.31 henning 104: <li><a name="unionfs"></a>
105: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.28 naddy 107: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 108: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
109: <p>
1.31 henning 110: <li><a name="fdalloc"></a>
111: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
113: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
114: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
115: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
116: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.28 naddy 117: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: available here.</a>
119: <p>
1.31 henning 120: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
121: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 122: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
123: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
124: to fix this is
1.28 naddy 125: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 126: available here.</a>
127: <p>
1.31 henning 128: <li><a name="xlib"></a>
129: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 130: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
131: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
132: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
133: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
134: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
135: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
136: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
137: problems.
138: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.28 naddy 139: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 140: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
141: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
142: <p>
1.31 henning 143: <li><a name="kill"></a>
144: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 145: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
146: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
147: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
148: problems of various kinds.
1.28 naddy 149: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 150: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
151: available.</a>
152: <p>
1.31 henning 153: <li><a name="immutable"></a>
154: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 155: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
156: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
157: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 158: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 159: when writes happen to the file.
1.28 naddy 160: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <p>
1.31 henning 163: <li><a name="ipsec"></a>
164: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 165: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
166: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
167: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.28 naddy 168: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 169: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
170: <p>
1.31 henning 171: <a name="xterm-xaw"></a>
1.28 naddy 172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 173: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
174: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
175: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
176: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
177: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
178: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
179: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
180: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
181: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
182: these problems.
1.28 naddy 183: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 184: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
185: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
186: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
187: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
188: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
189: The files are...
1.28 naddy 190: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
191: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
192: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
193: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 194: mvme68k</a>,
1.28 naddy 195: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
196: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
197: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 198: and
1.28 naddy 199: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 200: <p>
201: </ul>
1.31 henning 202: <a name="i386"></a>
203: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 204: <ul>
1.31 henning 205: <li><a name="pctr"></a>
206: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 207: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
208: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
209: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
210: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
211: <p>
1.28 naddy 212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 213: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
214: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.28 naddy 215: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 216: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
217: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
218: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
219: <ul>
220: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
221: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
222: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
223: </ul>
224: <p>
1.31 henning 225: <a name="pcvt"></a>
1.28 naddy 226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 227: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
228: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
229: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
230: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
231: and plugging it back in.
1.28 naddy 232: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 233: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
234: <p>
235: </ul>
1.31 henning 236: <a name="mac68k"></a>
237: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 238: <ul>
239: <li>No problems identified yet.
240: <p>
241: </ul>
1.31 henning 242: <a name="sparc"></a>
243: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 244: <ul>
1.28 naddy 245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 246: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
247: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.28 naddy 248: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 249: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
250: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.28 naddy 251: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
252: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 253: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.28 naddy 254: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 255: <p>
256: </ul>
1.31 henning 257: <a name="amiga"></a>
258: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 259: <ul>
1.28 naddy 260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 261: The AmigaOS patch
262: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
263: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
264: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
265: problem, be sure to execute
266: <pre>
267: PoolMem remove
268: </pre>
269: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
270: PoolMem-aware.
271: <p>
272: </ul>
1.31 henning 273: <a name="pmax"></a>
274: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 275: <ul>
1.28 naddy 276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 277: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
278: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
279: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
280: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
281: <p>
1.28 naddy 282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 283: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
284: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
285: <p>
1.31 henning 286: <pre>
287: cd /usr/lib/
288: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
289: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 290: <p>
1.28 naddy 291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 292: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
293: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
294: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
295: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
296: <p>
1.31 henning 297: <pre>
298: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
299: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 300: <p>
1.28 naddy 301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 302: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
303: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
304: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
305: <p>
1.31 henning 306: <pre>
307: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
308: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
309: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 310: <p>
311: </ul>
1.31 henning 312: <a name="arc"></a>
313: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 314: <ul>
1.28 naddy 315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 316: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
317: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
318: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
319: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
320: <p>
1.28 naddy 321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 322: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
323: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
324: <p>
1.31 henning 325: <pre>
326: cd /usr/lib/
327: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
328: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 329: <p>
330: </ul>
1.31 henning 331: <a name="alpha"></a>
332: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 333: <ul>
1.28 naddy 334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 335: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
336: there really is no such option.
337: <p>
338: </ul>
1.31 henning 339: <a name="hp300"></a>
340: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 341: <ul>
1.28 naddy 342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 343: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
344: there really is no such option.
345: <p>
1.28 naddy 346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 347: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 348: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
349: <p>
350: </ul>
1.31 henning 351: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
352: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 353: <ul>
354: <li>No problems identified yet.
355: <p>
356: </ul>
1.31 henning 357: <a name="powerpc"></a>
358: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 359: <ul>
1.28 naddy 360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 361: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
362: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.28 naddy 363: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
364: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 365: the system if those subsystems are used.
366: <p>
367: </ul>
1.10 deraadt 368:
1.1 deraadt 369: <br>
370:
371: <hr>
1.13 jason 372: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.25 deraadt 373: <br>
1.26 deraadt 374: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.25 deraadt 375: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
376: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
377: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
378: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
379: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
380: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
381: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
382: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
383: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
384: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 385: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 386: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 387: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 miod 388: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.36 deraadt 389: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 deraadt 390: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.38 deraadt 391: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.39 deraadt 392: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.40 ! deraadt 393: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
! 394: <a href="errata.html">4.1</a>.
1.25 deraadt 395: <br>
1.12 deraadt 396:
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