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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>,
1.45 deraadt 41: <br>
1.37 deraadt 42: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.38 deraadt 43: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.39 deraadt 44: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.40 deraadt 45: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.42 merdely 46: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.44 deraadt 47: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.45 deraadt 48: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.47 deraadt 49: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.48 deraadt 50: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.49 deraadt 51: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.51 deraadt 52: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.52 miod 53: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.53 nick 54: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.54 sthen 55: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.55 deraadt 56: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.56 ! deraadt 57: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
! 58: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>.
1.25 deraadt 59: <br>
1.1 deraadt 60: <hr>
61:
1.50 sthen 62: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 63: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
64: This file is updated once a day.
65:
1.14 ericj 66: <p>
1.27 deraadt 67: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.14 ericj 68: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
69:
1.1 deraadt 70: <hr>
71:
1.31 henning 72: <a name="all"></a>
73: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 74: <ul>
1.31 henning 75: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
76: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.5 deraadt 77: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
78: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.50 sthen 79: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.7 millert 80: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
81: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 82: <p>
1.31 henning 83: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
84: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 85: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.50 sthen 86: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 87: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
88: <p>
1.31 henning 89: <li><a name="atapi"></a>
90: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 91: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
92: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
93: A patch is
1.50 sthen 94: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: available here.</a>
96: <p>
1.31 henning 97: <li><a name="chpass"></a>
98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
100: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.50 sthen 101: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: <p>
1.31 henning 104: <li><a name="resid"></a>
105: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.43 tobias 106: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
1.1 deraadt 107: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.50 sthen 108: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 109: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
110: <p>
1.31 henning 111: <li><a name="inetd"></a>
112: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.50 sthen 114: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 115: available here.</a>
116: <p>
1.31 henning 117: <li><a name="unionfs"></a>
118: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 119: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.50 sthen 120: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
122: <p>
1.31 henning 123: <li><a name="fdalloc"></a>
124: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 125: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
126: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
127: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
128: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
129: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.50 sthen 130: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: available here.</a>
132: <p>
1.31 henning 133: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
134: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 135: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
136: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
137: to fix this is
1.50 sthen 138: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 139: available here.</a>
140: <p>
1.31 henning 141: <li><a name="xlib"></a>
142: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
144: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
145: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
146: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
147: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
148: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
149: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
150: problems.
151: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.50 sthen 152: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
154: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
155: <p>
1.31 henning 156: <li><a name="kill"></a>
157: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
159: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
160: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
161: problems of various kinds.
1.50 sthen 162: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 163: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
164: available.</a>
165: <p>
1.31 henning 166: <li><a name="immutable"></a>
167: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 168: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
169: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
170: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 171: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 172: when writes happen to the file.
1.50 sthen 173: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 174: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
175: <p>
1.31 henning 176: <li><a name="ipsec"></a>
177: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 178: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
179: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
180: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.50 sthen 181: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 182: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
183: <p>
1.31 henning 184: <a name="xterm-xaw"></a>
1.28 naddy 185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 186: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
187: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
188: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
189: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
190: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
191: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
192: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
193: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
194: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
195: these problems.
1.50 sthen 196: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 197: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
198: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
199: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
200: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
201: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
202: The files are...
1.50 sthen 203: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
204: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
205: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
206: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 207: mvme68k</a>,
1.50 sthen 208: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
209: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
210: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 211: and
1.50 sthen 212: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 213: <p>
214: </ul>
1.31 henning 215: <a name="i386"></a>
216: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 217: <ul>
1.31 henning 218: <li><a name="pctr"></a>
219: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 220: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
221: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
222: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
223: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
224: <p>
1.28 naddy 225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 226: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
227: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.50 sthen 228: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
229: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
1.1 deraadt 230: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
231: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
232: <ul>
233: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
234: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
235: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
236: </ul>
237: <p>
1.31 henning 238: <a name="pcvt"></a>
1.28 naddy 239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 240: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
241: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
242: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
243: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
244: and plugging it back in.
1.50 sthen 245: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 246: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
247: <p>
248: </ul>
1.31 henning 249: <a name="mac68k"></a>
250: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 251: <ul>
252: <li>No problems identified yet.
253: <p>
254: </ul>
1.31 henning 255: <a name="sparc"></a>
256: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 257: <ul>
1.28 naddy 258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 259: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
260: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.50 sthen 261: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 262: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
263: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.50 sthen 264: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
265: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 266: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.50 sthen 267: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 268: <p>
269: </ul>
1.31 henning 270: <a name="amiga"></a>
271: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 272: <ul>
1.28 naddy 273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 274: The AmigaOS patch
275: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
276: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
277: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
278: problem, be sure to execute
279: <pre>
280: PoolMem remove
281: </pre>
282: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
283: PoolMem-aware.
284: <p>
285: </ul>
1.31 henning 286: <a name="pmax"></a>
287: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 288: <ul>
1.28 naddy 289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 290: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
291: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
292: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
293: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
294: <p>
1.28 naddy 295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 296: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
297: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
298: <p>
1.31 henning 299: <pre>
300: cd /usr/lib/
301: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
302: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 303: <p>
1.28 naddy 304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 305: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
306: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
307: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
308: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
309: <p>
1.31 henning 310: <pre>
311: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
312: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 313: <p>
1.28 naddy 314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 315: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
316: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
317: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
318: <p>
1.31 henning 319: <pre>
320: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
321: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
322: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 323: <p>
324: </ul>
1.31 henning 325: <a name="arc"></a>
326: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 327: <ul>
1.28 naddy 328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 329: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
330: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
331: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
332: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
333: <p>
1.28 naddy 334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 335: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
336: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
337: <p>
1.31 henning 338: <pre>
339: cd /usr/lib/
340: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
341: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 342: <p>
343: </ul>
1.31 henning 344: <a name="alpha"></a>
345: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 346: <ul>
1.28 naddy 347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 348: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
349: there really is no such option.
350: <p>
351: </ul>
1.31 henning 352: <a name="hp300"></a>
353: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 354: <ul>
1.28 naddy 355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 356: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
357: there really is no such option.
358: <p>
1.28 naddy 359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 360: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 361: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
362: <p>
363: </ul>
1.31 henning 364: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
365: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 366: <ul>
367: <li>No problems identified yet.
368: <p>
369: </ul>
1.31 henning 370: <a name="powerpc"></a>
371: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 372: <ul>
1.28 naddy 373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 374: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
375: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.28 naddy 376: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
377: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 378: the system if those subsystems are used.
379: <p>
380: </ul>
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