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1.4 espie 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.3 release errata & patch list:
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1.13 jason 22: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.25 deraadt 23: <br>
1.26 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.25 deraadt 25: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
26: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
27: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
28: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
29: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
30: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
31: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
32: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
33: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
34: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 35: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 36: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 37: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 miod 38: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.36 deraadt 39: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.45 deraadt 40: <br>
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>,
1.42 merdely 45: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.44 deraadt 46: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.45 deraadt 47: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.47 deraadt 48: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.48 deraadt 49: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.49 deraadt 50: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.51 deraadt 51: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.52 miod 52: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.53 nick 53: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.54 sthen 54: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.55 deraadt 55: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.56 deraadt 56: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.57 deraadt 57: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
1.58 deraadt 58: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
59: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>.
1.25 deraadt 60: <br>
1.1 deraadt 61: <hr>
62:
1.50 sthen 63: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 64: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
65: This file is updated once a day.
66:
1.14 ericj 67: <p>
1.27 deraadt 68: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.14 ericj 69: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
70:
1.1 deraadt 71: <hr>
72:
1.31 henning 73: <a name="all"></a>
74: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 75: <ul>
1.31 henning 76: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
77: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.5 deraadt 78: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
79: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.50 sthen 80: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.58 deraadt 81: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
1.7 millert 82: second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 83: <p>
1.31 henning 84: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
85: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 86: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.50 sthen 87: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 88: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
89: <p>
1.31 henning 90: <li><a name="atapi"></a>
91: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 92: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
93: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
94: A patch is
1.50 sthen 95: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 96: available here.</a>
97: <p>
1.31 henning 98: <li><a name="chpass"></a>
99: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 100: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
101: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.50 sthen 102: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
1.31 henning 105: <li><a name="resid"></a>
106: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.43 tobias 107: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
1.1 deraadt 108: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.50 sthen 109: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
1.31 henning 112: <li><a name="inetd"></a>
113: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.50 sthen 115: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: available here.</a>
117: <p>
1.31 henning 118: <li><a name="unionfs"></a>
119: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.50 sthen 121: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 122: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
123: <p>
1.31 henning 124: <li><a name="fdalloc"></a>
125: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 126: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
127: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
128: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
129: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
1.58 deraadt 130: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.50 sthen 131: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 132: available here.</a>
133: <p>
1.31 henning 134: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
135: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 136: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
137: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
138: to fix this is
1.50 sthen 139: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 140: available here.</a>
141: <p>
1.31 henning 142: <li><a name="xlib"></a>
143: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 144: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
145: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
146: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
147: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
148: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
149: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
150: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
151: problems.
152: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.50 sthen 153: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 154: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
155: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
156: <p>
1.31 henning 157: <li><a name="kill"></a>
158: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 159: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
160: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
161: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
162: problems of various kinds.
1.50 sthen 163: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 164: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
165: available.</a>
166: <p>
1.31 henning 167: <li><a name="immutable"></a>
168: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 169: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
170: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
171: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 172: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 173: when writes happen to the file.
1.50 sthen 174: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 175: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
176: <p>
1.31 henning 177: <li><a name="ipsec"></a>
178: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 179: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
180: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
181: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.50 sthen 182: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 183: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
184: <p>
1.31 henning 185: <a name="xterm-xaw"></a>
1.28 naddy 186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 187: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
188: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
189: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
190: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
191: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
192: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
193: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
194: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
195: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
196: these problems.
1.50 sthen 197: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 198: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
199: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
200: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
201: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
202: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
203: The files are...
1.50 sthen 204: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
205: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
206: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
207: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 208: mvme68k</a>,
1.50 sthen 209: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
210: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
211: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 212: and
1.50 sthen 213: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 214: <p>
215: </ul>
1.31 henning 216: <a name="i386"></a>
217: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 218: <ul>
1.31 henning 219: <li><a name="pctr"></a>
220: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 221: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
222: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
223: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
224: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
225: <p>
1.28 naddy 226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 227: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
228: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.50 sthen 229: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
230: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
1.1 deraadt 231: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
232: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
233: <ul>
234: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
235: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
236: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
237: </ul>
238: <p>
1.31 henning 239: <a name="pcvt"></a>
1.28 naddy 240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 241: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
242: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
243: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
244: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
245: and plugging it back in.
1.50 sthen 246: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 247: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
248: <p>
249: </ul>
1.31 henning 250: <a name="mac68k"></a>
251: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 252: <ul>
253: <li>No problems identified yet.
254: <p>
255: </ul>
1.31 henning 256: <a name="sparc"></a>
257: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 258: <ul>
1.28 naddy 259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 260: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
261: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.50 sthen 262: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 263: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
264: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.50 sthen 265: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
266: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 267: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.50 sthen 268: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 269: <p>
270: </ul>
1.31 henning 271: <a name="amiga"></a>
272: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 273: <ul>
1.28 naddy 274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.58 deraadt 275: The AmigaOS patch
1.1 deraadt 276: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
277: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
278: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
279: problem, be sure to execute
280: <pre>
281: PoolMem remove
282: </pre>
283: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
284: PoolMem-aware.
285: <p>
286: </ul>
1.31 henning 287: <a name="pmax"></a>
288: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 289: <ul>
1.28 naddy 290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 291: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
292: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
293: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
294: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
295: <p>
1.28 naddy 296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 297: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
298: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
299: <p>
1.31 henning 300: <pre>
301: cd /usr/lib/
302: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
303: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 304: <p>
1.28 naddy 305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 306: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
307: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
308: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
309: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
310: <p>
1.31 henning 311: <pre>
312: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
313: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 314: <p>
1.28 naddy 315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 316: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
317: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
318: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
319: <p>
1.31 henning 320: <pre>
321: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
322: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
323: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 324: <p>
325: </ul>
1.31 henning 326: <a name="arc"></a>
327: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</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: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
331: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
332: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
333: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
334: <p>
1.28 naddy 335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 336: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
337: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
338: <p>
1.31 henning 339: <pre>
340: cd /usr/lib/
341: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
342: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 343: <p>
344: </ul>
1.31 henning 345: <a name="alpha"></a>
346: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 347: <ul>
1.28 naddy 348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 349: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
350: there really is no such option.
351: <p>
352: </ul>
1.31 henning 353: <a name="hp300"></a>
354: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 355: <ul>
1.28 naddy 356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 357: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
358: there really is no such option.
359: <p>
1.28 naddy 360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 361: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 362: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
363: <p>
364: </ul>
1.31 henning 365: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
366: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 367: <ul>
368: <li>No problems identified yet.
369: <p>
370: </ul>
1.31 henning 371: <a name="powerpc"></a>
372: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 373: <ul>
1.28 naddy 374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 375: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
376: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.58 deraadt 377: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
1.28 naddy 378: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 379: the system if those subsystems are used.
380: <p>
1.59 ! deraadt 381:
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383:
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