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