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1.4 espie 16: This is the OpenBSD 2.3 release errata & patch list:
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1.13 jason 21: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.25 deraadt 22: <br>
1.26 deraadt 23: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.25 deraadt 24: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
25: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
26: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
27: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
28: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
29: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
30: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
31: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
32: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
33: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.29 deraadt 34: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.30 david 35: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 36: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.35 miod 37: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.36 deraadt 38: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.60 deraadt 39: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.45 deraadt 40: <br>
1.38 deraadt 41: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.39 deraadt 42: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.40 deraadt 43: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.42 merdely 44: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.44 deraadt 45: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.45 deraadt 46: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.47 deraadt 47: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.48 deraadt 48: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.49 deraadt 49: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.51 deraadt 50: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.52 miod 51: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.53 nick 52: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.54 sthen 53: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.55 deraadt 54: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.56 deraadt 55: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.57 deraadt 56: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
1.60 deraadt 57: <br>
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.
1.61 deraadt 66: <p>
1.1 deraadt 67:
1.61 deraadt 68: The patches below are available in CVS via the
69: <code>OPENBSD_2_3</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.14 ericj 70: <p>
1.61 deraadt 71:
1.27 deraadt 72: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.61 deraadt 73: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
74: <p>
1.14 ericj 75:
1.1 deraadt 76: <hr>
77:
78: <ul>
1.31 henning 79: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
1.62 deraadt 80: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.5 deraadt 81: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
82: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.50 sthen 83: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.61 deraadt 84: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
85: This is the second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 86: <p>
1.31 henning 87: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
1.62 deraadt 88: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 89: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.50 sthen 90: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 91: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
92: <p>
1.31 henning 93: <li><a name="atapi"></a>
1.62 deraadt 94: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 95: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
96: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
97: A patch is
1.50 sthen 98: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 99: available here.</a>
100: <p>
1.31 henning 101: <li><a name="chpass"></a>
1.62 deraadt 102: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 103: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
104: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.50 sthen 105: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 106: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
107: <p>
1.31 henning 108: <li><a name="resid"></a>
1.62 deraadt 109: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.43 tobias 110: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
1.1 deraadt 111: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.50 sthen 112: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 113: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
114: <p>
1.31 henning 115: <li><a name="inetd"></a>
1.62 deraadt 116: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 117: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.50 sthen 118: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 119: available here.</a>
120: <p>
1.31 henning 121: <li><a name="unionfs"></a>
1.62 deraadt 122: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.50 sthen 124: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
126: <p>
1.31 henning 127: <li><a name="fdalloc"></a>
1.62 deraadt 128: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
130: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
131: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
132: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
1.58 deraadt 133: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.50 sthen 134: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: available here.</a>
136: <p>
1.31 henning 137: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
1.62 deraadt 138: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 deraadt 139: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
140: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
141: to fix this is
1.50 sthen 142: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 143: available here.</a>
144: <p>
1.31 henning 145: <li><a name="xlib"></a>
1.62 deraadt 146: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 147: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
148: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
149: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
150: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
151: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
152: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
153: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
154: problems.
155: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.50 sthen 156: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 157: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
158: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
159: <p>
1.31 henning 160: <li><a name="kill"></a>
1.62 deraadt 161: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 162: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
163: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
164: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
165: problems of various kinds.
1.50 sthen 166: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 167: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
168: available.</a>
169: <p>
1.31 henning 170: <li><a name="immutable"></a>
1.62 deraadt 171: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 172: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
173: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
174: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 175: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 176: when writes happen to the file.
1.50 sthen 177: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 178: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
179: <p>
1.31 henning 180: <li><a name="ipsec"></a>
1.62 deraadt 181: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 182: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
183: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
184: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.50 sthen 185: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 186: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
187: <p>
1.31 henning 188: <a name="xterm-xaw"></a>
1.62 deraadt 189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 190: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
191: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
192: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
193: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
194: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
195: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
196: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
197: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
198: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
199: these problems.
1.50 sthen 200: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 201: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
202: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
203: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
204: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
205: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
206: The files are...
1.50 sthen 207: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
208: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
209: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
210: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 211: mvme68k</a>,
1.50 sthen 212: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
213: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
214: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 215: and
1.50 sthen 216: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 217: <p>
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>
1.28 naddy 248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 249: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
250: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.50 sthen 251: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 252: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
253: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.50 sthen 254: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
255: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 256: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.50 sthen 257: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 258: <p>
1.28 naddy 259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.58 deraadt 260: The AmigaOS patch
1.1 deraadt 261: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
262: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
263: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
264: problem, be sure to execute
265: <pre>
266: PoolMem remove
267: </pre>
268: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
269: PoolMem-aware.
270: <p>
1.28 naddy 271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 272: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
273: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
274: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
275: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
276: <p>
1.28 naddy 277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 278: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
279: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
280: <p>
1.31 henning 281: <pre>
282: cd /usr/lib/
283: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
284: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 285: <p>
1.28 naddy 286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 287: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
288: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
289: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
290: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
291: <p>
1.31 henning 292: <pre>
293: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
294: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 295: <p>
1.28 naddy 296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 297: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
298: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
299: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
300: <p>
1.31 henning 301: <pre>
302: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
303: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
304: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 305: <p>
1.28 naddy 306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 307: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
308: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
309: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
310: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
311: <p>
1.28 naddy 312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 313: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
314: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
315: <p>
1.31 henning 316: <pre>
317: cd /usr/lib/
318: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
319: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 320: <p>
1.28 naddy 321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 322: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
323: there really is no such option.
324: <p>
1.28 naddy 325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 326: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
327: there really is no such option.
328: <p>
1.28 naddy 329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 330: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 331: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
332: <p>
1.28 naddy 333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 334: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
335: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.58 deraadt 336: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
1.28 naddy 337: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 338: the system if those subsystems are used.
339: <p>
1.59 deraadt 340:
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