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77:
1.14 ericj 78: <p>
1.79 tj 79: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
80: Each patch contains usage instructions.
81: All the following patches are also available in one
82: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
83: for convenience.
1.61 deraadt 84:
85: <p>
1.79 tj 86: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.80 tj 87: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.14 ericj 88:
1.1 deraadt 89: <hr>
90:
91: <ul>
1.86 deraadt 92:
1.67 bentley 93: <li id="bootpd">
1.86 deraadt 94: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 95: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.5 deraadt 96: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
97: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.78 tb 98: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.61 deraadt 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: This is the second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 101: <p>
1.86 deraadt 102:
1.67 bentley 103: <li id="tcpfix">
1.86 deraadt 104: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 105: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 106: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.78 tb 107: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 108: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109: <p>
1.86 deraadt 110:
1.67 bentley 111: <li id="atapi">
1.86 deraadt 112: <strong>003: HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong>
1.64 deraadt 113: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
115: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
116: A patch is
1.78 tb 117: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: available here.</a>
119: <p>
1.86 deraadt 120:
1.67 bentley 121: <li id="chpass">
1.86 deraadt 122: <strong>004: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 123: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 124: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
125: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.78 tb 126: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 127: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.88 schwarze 128: For more details, see the
129: <a href="advisories/nai_28_chpass.txt">Network Associates advisory</a>.
1.1 deraadt 130: <p>
1.86 deraadt 131:
1.67 bentley 132: <li id="resid">
1.86 deraadt 133: <strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 134: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.43 tobias 135: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
1.1 deraadt 136: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.78 tb 137: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 138: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
139: <p>
1.86 deraadt 140:
1.67 bentley 141: <li id="inetd">
1.86 deraadt 142: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 143: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 144: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.78 tb 145: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 146: available here.</a>
147: <p>
1.86 deraadt 148:
1.67 bentley 149: <li id="unionfs">
1.86 deraadt 150: <strong>007: BUG FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 151: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 152: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.78 tb 153: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 154: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
155: <p>
1.86 deraadt 156:
1.67 bentley 157: <li id="fdalloc">
1.86 deraadt 158: <strong>008: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 159: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 160: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
161: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
162: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
163: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
1.58 deraadt 164: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.78 tb 165: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 166: available here.</a>
167: <p>
1.86 deraadt 168:
1.67 bentley 169: <li id="resolver">
1.86 deraadt 170: <strong>009: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 171: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 deraadt 172: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
173: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
174: to fix this is
1.78 tb 175: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 176: available here.</a>
177: <p>
1.86 deraadt 178:
1.67 bentley 179: <li id="xlib">
1.86 deraadt 180: <strong>010: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 181: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 182: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
183: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
184: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
185: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
186: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
187: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
188: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
189: problems.
190: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.78 tb 191: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 192: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
193: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
194: <p>
1.86 deraadt 195:
1.67 bentley 196: <li id="kill">
1.86 deraadt 197: <strong>011: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 198: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 199: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
200: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
201: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
202: problems of various kinds.
1.78 tb 203: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 204: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
205: available.</a>
206: <p>
1.86 deraadt 207:
1.67 bentley 208: <li id="immutable">
1.86 deraadt 209: <strong>012: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 210: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 211: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
212: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
213: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 214: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 215: when writes happen to the file.
1.78 tb 216: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 217: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
218: <p>
1.86 deraadt 219:
1.67 bentley 220: <li id="ipsec">
1.86 deraadt 221: <strong>013: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 222: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 223: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
224: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
225: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.78 tb 226: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 227: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
228: <p>
1.86 deraadt 229:
1.67 bentley 230: <li id="xterm-xaw">
1.86 deraadt 231: <strong>014: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 232: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 233: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
1.85 bentley 234: overrun problems in <b>xterm</b> related to the input-Method,
1.1 deraadt 235: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
1.85 bentley 236: the <b>Xaw</b> library related to the inputMethod and
1.1 deraadt 237: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
238: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
239: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
240: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
241: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
242: these problems.
1.78 tb 243: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 244: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
245: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
246: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
1.85 bentley 247: <b>/usr/X11R6</b> using the command
248: <b>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</b>.
1.1 deraadt 249: The files are...
1.78 tb 250: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
251: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
252: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
253: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 254: mvme68k</a>,
1.78 tb 255: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
256: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
257: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 258: and
1.78 tb 259: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 260: <p>
1.86 deraadt 261:
1.67 bentley 262: <li id="pctr">
1.86 deraadt 263: <strong>015: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 264: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
265: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
266: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
267: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
268: <p>
1.86 deraadt 269: <li><strong>016: CORRUPTED FILE</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 270: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
271: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.78 tb 272: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
273: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
1.1 deraadt 274: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
275: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
276: <ul>
277: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
278: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
279: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
280: </ul>
281: <p>
1.86 deraadt 282:
1.67 bentley 283: <li id="pcvt">
1.86 deraadt 284: <strong>017: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 285: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
286: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
287: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
288: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
289: and plugging it back in.
1.78 tb 290: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 291: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
292: <p>
1.86 deraadt 293: <li><strong>018: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 294: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
295: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.78 tb 296: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 297: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
298: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.78 tb 299: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
300: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 301: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.78 tb 302: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 303: <p>
1.86 deraadt 304: <li><strong>019: MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong><br>
1.58 deraadt 305: The AmigaOS patch
1.1 deraadt 306: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
307: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
308: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
309: problem, be sure to execute
310: <pre>
311: PoolMem remove
312: </pre>
313: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
314: PoolMem-aware.
315: <p>
1.86 deraadt 316: <li><strong>020: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 317: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
318: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
1.85 bentley 319: changes, mostly in <b>xdm(1)</b> configuration, were made
1.1 deraadt 320: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
321: <p>
1.86 deraadt 322: <li><strong>021: X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 323: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
324: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
325: <p>
1.31 henning 326: <pre>
327: cd /usr/lib/
328: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
329: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 330: <p>
1.86 deraadt 331: <li><strong>022: X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 332: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
333: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
334: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
335: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
336: <p>
1.31 henning 337: <pre>
338: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
339: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 340: <p>
1.86 deraadt 341: <li><strong>023: INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 342: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
343: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
344: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
345: <p>
1.31 henning 346: <pre>
347: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
348: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
349: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 350: <p>
1.86 deraadt 351: <li><strong>024: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 352: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
353: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
1.85 bentley 354: changes, mostly in <b>xdm(1)</b> configuration, were made
1.1 deraadt 355: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
356: <p>
1.86 deraadt 357: <li><strong>025: X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 358: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
359: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
360: <p>
1.31 henning 361: <pre>
362: cd /usr/lib/
363: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
364: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 365: <p>
1.86 deraadt 366: <li><strong>026: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 367: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
368: there really is no such option.
369: <p>
1.86 deraadt 370: <li><strong>027: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 371: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
372: there really is no such option.
373: <p>
1.86 deraadt 374: <li><strong>028: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.17 pvalchev 375: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 376: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
377: <p>
1.86 deraadt 378: <li><strong>029: SECURITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 379: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
380: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.58 deraadt 381: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
1.28 naddy 382: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 383: the system if those subsystems are used.
384: <p>
1.59 deraadt 385:
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387:
1.68 tedu 388: <hr>
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