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1.1 deraadt 25:
1.13 jason 26: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
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32: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
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1.30 david 40: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.34 david 41: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
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1.36 deraadt 43: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
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1.65 jsg 64: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
1.69 deraadt 65: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
1.72 deraadt 66: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
1.73 deraadt 67: <a href="errata58.html">5.8</a>,
1.76 deraadt 68: <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>,
69: <a href="errata60.html">6.0</a>.
1.25 deraadt 70: <br>
1.1 deraadt 71: <hr>
72:
1.78 ! tb 73: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 74: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
75: This file is updated once a day.
1.61 deraadt 76: <p>
1.1 deraadt 77:
1.61 deraadt 78: The patches below are available in CVS via the
79: <code>OPENBSD_2_3</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.14 ericj 80: <p>
1.61 deraadt 81:
1.27 deraadt 82: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.61 deraadt 83: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
84: <p>
1.14 ericj 85:
1.1 deraadt 86: <hr>
87:
88: <ul>
1.67 bentley 89: <li id="bootpd">
1.64 deraadt 90: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
91: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.5 deraadt 92: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
93: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.78 ! tb 94: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.61 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: This is the second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 97: <p>
1.67 bentley 98: <li id="tcpfix">
1.64 deraadt 99: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
100: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 101: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.78 ! tb 102: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
1.67 bentley 105: <li id="atapi">
1.64 deraadt 106: <font color="#009000"><strong>HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong></font>
107: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 108: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
109: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
110: A patch is
1.78 ! tb 111: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 112: available here.</a>
113: <p>
1.67 bentley 114: <li id="chpass">
1.64 deraadt 115: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
116: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 117: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
118: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.78 ! tb 119: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 120: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
121: <p>
1.67 bentley 122: <li id="resid">
1.64 deraadt 123: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
124: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.43 tobias 125: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
1.1 deraadt 126: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.78 ! tb 127: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 128: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
129: <p>
1.67 bentley 130: <li id="inetd">
1.64 deraadt 131: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
132: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 133: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.78 ! tb 134: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: available here.</a>
136: <p>
1.67 bentley 137: <li id="unionfs">
1.64 deraadt 138: <font color="#009000"><strong>BUG FIX</strong></font>
139: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 140: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.78 ! tb 141: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 142: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
143: <p>
1.67 bentley 144: <li id="fdalloc">
1.64 deraadt 145: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
146: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 147: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
148: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
149: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
150: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
1.58 deraadt 151: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.78 ! tb 152: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: available here.</a>
154: <p>
1.67 bentley 155: <li id="resolver">
1.64 deraadt 156: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
157: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 deraadt 158: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
159: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
160: to fix this is
1.78 ! tb 161: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 162: available here.</a>
163: <p>
1.67 bentley 164: <li id="xlib">
1.64 deraadt 165: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
166: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 167: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
168: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
169: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
170: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
171: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
172: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
173: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
174: problems.
175: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.78 ! tb 176: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 177: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
178: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
179: <p>
1.67 bentley 180: <li id="kill">
1.64 deraadt 181: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
182: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 183: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
184: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
185: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
186: problems of various kinds.
1.78 ! tb 187: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 188: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
189: available.</a>
190: <p>
1.67 bentley 191: <li id="immutable">
1.64 deraadt 192: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
193: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 194: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
195: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
196: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 197: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 198: when writes happen to the file.
1.78 ! tb 199: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 200: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
201: <p>
1.67 bentley 202: <li id="ipsec">
1.64 deraadt 203: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
204: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 205: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
206: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
207: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.78 ! tb 208: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 209: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
210: <p>
1.67 bentley 211: <li id="xterm-xaw">
212: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
1.64 deraadt 213: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 214: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
215: overrun problems in <strong>xterm</strong> related to the input-Method,
216: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
217: the <strong>Xaw</strong> library related to the inputMethod and
218: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
219: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
220: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
221: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
222: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
223: these problems.
1.78 ! tb 224: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 225: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
226: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
227: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
228: <strong>/usr/X11R6</strong> using the command
229: <strong>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</strong>.
230: The files are...
1.78 ! tb 231: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
! 232: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
! 233: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
! 234: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 235: mvme68k</a>,
1.78 ! tb 236: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
! 237: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
! 238: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 239: and
1.78 ! tb 240: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 241: <p>
1.67 bentley 242: <li id="pctr">
1.31 henning 243: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 244: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
245: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
246: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
247: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
248: <p>
1.28 naddy 249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>CORRUPTED FILE</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 250: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
251: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.78 ! tb 252: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
! 253: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
1.1 deraadt 254: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
255: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
256: <ul>
257: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
258: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
259: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
260: </ul>
261: <p>
1.67 bentley 262: <li id="pcvt">
263: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 264: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
265: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
266: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
267: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
268: and plugging it back in.
1.78 ! tb 269: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 270: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
271: <p>
1.28 naddy 272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 273: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
274: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.78 ! tb 275: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 276: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
277: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.78 ! tb 278: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
! 279: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 280: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.78 ! tb 281: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 282: <p>
1.28 naddy 283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong></font><br>
1.58 deraadt 284: The AmigaOS patch
1.1 deraadt 285: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
286: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
287: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
288: problem, be sure to execute
289: <pre>
290: PoolMem remove
291: </pre>
292: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
293: PoolMem-aware.
294: <p>
1.28 naddy 295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 296: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
297: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
298: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
299: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
300: <p>
1.28 naddy 301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 302: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
303: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
304: <p>
1.31 henning 305: <pre>
306: cd /usr/lib/
307: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
308: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 309: <p>
1.28 naddy 310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 311: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
312: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
313: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
314: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
315: <p>
1.31 henning 316: <pre>
317: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
318: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 319: <p>
1.28 naddy 320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 321: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
322: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
323: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
324: <p>
1.31 henning 325: <pre>
326: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
327: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
328: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 329: <p>
1.28 naddy 330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 331: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
332: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
333: changes, mostly in <strong>xdm(1)</strong> configuration, were made
334: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
335: <p>
1.28 naddy 336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 337: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
338: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
339: <p>
1.31 henning 340: <pre>
341: cd /usr/lib/
342: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
343: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 344: <p>
1.28 naddy 345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 346: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
347: there really is no such option.
348: <p>
1.28 naddy 349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 350: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
351: there really is no such option.
352: <p>
1.28 naddy 353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELEASE WARNING</strong></font><br>
1.17 pvalchev 354: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 355: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
356: <p>
1.28 naddy 357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 358: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
359: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.58 deraadt 360: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
1.28 naddy 361: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 362: the system if those subsystems are used.
363: <p>
1.59 deraadt 364:
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366:
1.68 tedu 367: <hr>
368:
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