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80:
1.14 ericj 81: <p>
1.79 tj 82: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
83: Each patch contains usage instructions.
84: All the following patches are also available in one
85: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
86: for convenience.
1.61 deraadt 87:
88: <p>
1.79 tj 89: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.80 tj 90: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.14 ericj 91:
1.1 deraadt 92: <hr>
93:
94: <ul>
1.86 deraadt 95:
1.67 bentley 96: <li id="bootpd">
1.86 deraadt 97: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 98: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.5 deraadt 99: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
100: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.78 tb 101: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/bootpd.patch">
1.61 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: This is the second version of the patch.
1.5 deraadt 104: <p>
1.86 deraadt 105:
1.67 bentley 106: <li id="tcpfix">
1.86 deraadt 107: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 108: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 109: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.78 tb 110: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.2 deraadt 111: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
112: <p>
1.86 deraadt 113:
1.67 bentley 114: <li id="atapi">
1.86 deraadt 115: <strong>003: HARDWARE SUPPORT</strong>
1.64 deraadt 116: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 117: Some ATAPI cdroms which do not support the full mandatory command set,
118: (e.g. ATAPI_READ_CD_CAPACITY) do not work with the acd(4) driver.
119: A patch is
1.78 tb 120: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/acd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: available here.</a>
122: <p>
1.86 deraadt 123:
1.67 bentley 124: <li id="chpass">
1.86 deraadt 125: <strong>004: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 126: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: Chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
128: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.
1.78 tb 129: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/chpass.patch">
1.1 deraadt 130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.88 schwarze 131: For more details, see the
132: <a href="advisories/nai_28_chpass.txt">Network Associates advisory</a>.
1.1 deraadt 133: <p>
1.86 deraadt 134:
1.67 bentley 135: <li id="resid">
1.86 deraadt 136: <strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 137: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.43 tobias 138: Calling readv(2) with iov_len < 0 or > INT_MAX would result in a
1.1 deraadt 139: kernel panic. This is the third revision of this patch.
1.78 tb 140: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resid.patch">
1.1 deraadt 141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
142: <p>
1.86 deraadt 143:
1.67 bentley 144: <li id="inetd">
1.86 deraadt 145: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 146: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 147: Inetd had a file descriptor leak. A patch is
1.78 tb 148: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/inetd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 149: available here.</a>
150: <p>
1.86 deraadt 151:
1.67 bentley 152: <li id="unionfs">
1.86 deraadt 153: <strong>007: BUG FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 154: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 155: As shipped, unionfs had some serious problems.
1.78 tb 156: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/unionfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 157: A patch is available to solve this</a>.
158: <p>
1.86 deraadt 159:
1.67 bentley 160: <li id="fdalloc">
1.86 deraadt 161: <strong>008: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 162: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 163: Some non-allocated file descriptors have implied uses according to
164: system libraries, and hence setuid and setgid processes should not
165: be executed with these descriptors unallocated. A patch which forces
166: setuid and setgid processes to have some descriptors in fd slots
1.58 deraadt 167: 0, 1, and 2 is
1.78 tb 168: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/fdalloc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 169: available here.</a>
170: <p>
1.86 deraadt 171:
1.67 bentley 172: <li id="resolver">
1.86 deraadt 173: <strong>009: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 174: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 deraadt 175: A benign looking buffer overflow in the resolver routines was re-introduced
176: accidentally. The previously fixed behaviour is more correct. A patch
177: to fix this is
1.78 tb 178: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/resolver.patch">
1.3 deraadt 179: available here.</a>
180: <p>
1.86 deraadt 181:
1.67 bentley 182: <li id="xlib">
1.86 deraadt 183: <strong>010: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 184: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 185: Vulnerabilities have been found in the X11, Xt, Xaw and Xmu
186: libraries. These affect xterm and all other setuid-root programs that
187: use these libraries. The problems are associated with buffer overflows
188: in code that processes user-supplied data. The Xt library problems
189: include those fixed in TOG's recent public patch 3 for X11R6.3. All
190: releases of XFree86 up to and including 3.3.2 patch 1 and the version
191: distributed with OpenBSD are vulnerable to some or all of these
192: problems.
193: These problems are fixed in XFree86 patch 2.
1.78 tb 194: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/XFree86-3.3.2.2.patch">
1.1 deraadt 195: The 2nd source patch</a> for these problems, specifically adapted to the
196: OpenBSD 2.3 X11 tree, is available now.
197: <p>
1.86 deraadt 198:
1.67 bentley 199: <li id="kill">
1.86 deraadt 200: <strong>011: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 201: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 202: The kill(2) system call previously would permit a large set of signals to
203: be delivered to setuid or setgid processes. If such processes were using
204: those signals in dubious ways, this could have resulted in security
205: problems of various kinds.
1.78 tb 206: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/kill.patch">
1.1 deraadt 207: The fourth revision of a source code patch which solves the problem is
208: available.</a>
209: <p>
1.86 deraadt 210:
1.67 bentley 211: <li id="immutable">
1.86 deraadt 212: <strong>012: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 213: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 214: A possible new security problem exists if you rely on securelevels and
215: immutable or append-only files or character devices. The fix does not
216: permit mmap'ing of immutable or append-only files which are otherwise
1.17 pvalchev 217: writable, as the VM system will bypass the meaning of the file flags
1.1 deraadt 218: when writes happen to the file.
1.78 tb 219: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/immutable.patch">
1.1 deraadt 220: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
221: <p>
1.86 deraadt 222:
1.67 bentley 223: <li id="ipsec">
1.86 deraadt 224: <strong>013: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 225: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 226: If IPSEC communication is attempted by starting photurisd(8) (which is
227: disabled by default), a system crash may be evoked from remote if
228: an attacker uses some classes of invalid packets.
1.78 tb 229: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/ipsec.patch">
1.1 deraadt 230: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
231: <p>
1.86 deraadt 232:
1.67 bentley 233: <li id="xterm-xaw">
1.86 deraadt 234: <strong>014: SECURITY FIX</strong>
1.64 deraadt 235: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 236: As stated in CERT advisory VB-98.04, there are buffer
1.85 bentley 237: overrun problems in <b>xterm</b> related to the input-Method,
1.1 deraadt 238: preeditType, and *Keymap resources. Additional buffer overruns exist in
1.85 bentley 239: the <b>Xaw</b> library related to the inputMethod and
1.1 deraadt 240: preeditType resources. The xterm(1) problem represents a security
241: vulnerability for any platform where xterm is installed setuid-root
242: (as is the case for all OpenBSD platforms). The Xaw problem represents
243: a security vulnerability for any setuid-root program that uses the Xaw
244: library (including xterm). Patch1 from XFree86 3.3.2 corrects
245: these problems.
1.78 tb 246: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/common/xterm-xaw.patch">
1.1 deraadt 247: We provide a version of this patch file specifically for the OpenBSD 2.3 tree</a>.
248: We also provide tar files which replace the xterm(1) binary and the libXaw
249: libraries on your system. These are expected to be extracted in
1.85 bentley 250: <b>/usr/X11R6</b> using the command
251: <b>"tar xvfpz Xawfix.tgz"</b>.
1.1 deraadt 252: The files are...
1.78 tb 253: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/Xawfix.tgz">i386</a>,
254: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/alpha/Xawfix.tgz">alpha</a>,
255: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mac68k/Xawfix.tgz">mac68k</a>,
256: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/mvme68k/Xawfix.tgz">
1.1 deraadt 257: mvme68k</a>,
1.78 tb 258: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/hp300/Xawfix.tgz">hp300</a>,
259: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/Xawfix.tgz">sparc</a>,
260: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/pmax/Xawfix.tgz">pmax</a>,
1.1 deraadt 261: and
1.78 tb 262: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/arc/Xawfix.tgz">arc</a>.
1.1 deraadt 263: <p>
1.86 deraadt 264:
1.67 bentley 265: <li id="pctr">
1.86 deraadt 266: <strong>015: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 267: The pctr(4) driver has bugs that permit any user to crash the machine,
268: if the CPU is not an Intel CPU. This problem has been properly fixed
269: since, but fixes are hard to apply to the 2.2 or 2.3 releases. To avoid
270: the problem, recompile your kernel without the pctr(4) device driver.
271: <p>
1.86 deraadt 272: <li><strong>016: CORRUPTED FILE</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 273: The CD version of the precompiled ghostscript package is corrupted and
274: not installable. The correct file can be retrieved by FTP from:
1.78 tb 275: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz">
276: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/ghostscript-5.10.tgz</a>.
1.1 deraadt 277: Its checksums (obtained with <i>cksum(1)</i>, <i>md5(1)</i> and
278: <i>sha1(1)</i> respectively) are:
279: <ul>
280: <li>725752890 3639338 ghostscript-5.10.tgz
281: <li>MD5 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = 3144ca814ad1965d671be2b7be3d3050
282: <li>SHA1 (ghostscript-5.10.tgz) = bd9374fa547ac0078d5207463d3b0a19d80d213c
283: </ul>
284: <p>
1.86 deraadt 285:
1.67 bentley 286: <li id="pcvt">
1.86 deraadt 287: <strong>017: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 288: The pcvt(4) console driver has a bug that can cause some keyboard
289: controllers to lock up when a key is pressed that toggles the status
290: of a keyboard LED (scroll lock, caps lock, etc). The problem is
291: generally intermittent and the keyboard can be "unlocked" by unplugging
292: and plugging it back in.
1.78 tb 293: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/i386/pcvt.patch">
1.1 deraadt 294: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
295: <p>
1.86 deraadt 296: <li><strong>018: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 297: The 2.3 release does not run reliably on the sun4m LX/LC machines
298: (ie. Sparc Classic).
1.78 tb 299: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/iommureg.patch">
1.1 deraadt 300: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
301: Two kernels which replace the ones in the release are also provided:
1.78 tb 302: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd">bsd</a> and
303: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc/bsd.scsi3">bsd.scsi3</a>.
1.1 deraadt 304: Other replacements for the 2.3 install tools are
1.78 tb 305: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.3/sparc">also available</a>.
1.1 deraadt 306: <p>
1.86 deraadt 307: <li><strong>019: MINOR INCOMPATIBILITY</strong><br>
1.58 deraadt 308: The AmigaOS patch
1.1 deraadt 309: <a href="http://us.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/sys/PoolMem.lha">PoolMem</a>
310: improves AmigaOS memory handling tremendously, but confuses loadbsd, which
311: grabs less memory from the system than is available. To work around the
312: problem, be sure to execute
313: <pre>
314: PoolMem remove
315: </pre>
316: right before running loadbsd. The next release of loadbsd will probably be
317: PoolMem-aware.
318: <p>
1.86 deraadt 319: <li><strong>020: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 320: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
321: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
1.85 bentley 322: changes, mostly in <b>xdm(1)</b> configuration, were made
1.1 deraadt 323: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
324: <p>
1.86 deraadt 325: <li><strong>021: X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 326: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
327: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
328: <p>
1.31 henning 329: <pre>
330: cd /usr/lib/
331: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
332: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 333: <p>
1.86 deraadt 334: <li><strong>022: X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 335: The X11R5 server used in this port does not understand the default
336: authorization types used by the X11R6 clients, which results in no
337: clients being able to connect to the server. To fix this
338: problem add the line below to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config.
339: <p>
1.31 henning 340: <pre>
341: DisplayManager._0.authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
342: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 343: <p>
1.86 deraadt 344: <li><strong>023: INSTALLATION PROCESS FLAW</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 345: The pmax install does not correctly install the boot block.
346: To work around the problem, after the install program has finished, do
347: the following (assuming scsi id 0):
348: <p>
1.31 henning 349: <pre>
350: disklabel rz0 > /tmp/label
351: disklabel -R -B rz0 /tmp/label
352: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 353: <p>
1.86 deraadt 354: <li><strong>024: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 355: The XFree86 binary set shipped on the CD and FTP site are not the
356: exact final set that we shipped for the other releases. A few minor
1.85 bentley 357: changes, mostly in <b>xdm(1)</b> configuration, were made
1.1 deraadt 358: after those binaries were made. Patches for this might come out later.
359: <p>
1.86 deraadt 360: <li><strong>025: X11 RELEASE ERROR</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 361: The XFree86 binary set was linked with an older version of the C
362: library. To work around the problem, do the following as root.
363: <p>
1.31 henning 364: <pre>
365: cd /usr/lib/
366: ln -s libc.so.18.0 libc.so.17
367: </pre>
1.1 deraadt 368: <p>
1.86 deraadt 369: <li><strong>026: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 370: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
371: there really is no such option.
372: <p>
1.86 deraadt 373: <li><strong>027: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 374: When you start the install an upgrade option is advertised but
375: there really is no such option.
376: <p>
1.86 deraadt 377: <li><strong>028: RELEASE WARNING</strong><br>
1.17 pvalchev 378: Unlabeled disks with weird geometries can panic the kernel.
1.1 deraadt 379: A fix will be made available when 2.3 is out.
380: <p>
1.86 deraadt 381: <li><strong>029: SECURITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 382: The powerpc release shipped on the OpenBSD 2.3 CD does not contain
383: two late fixes applied late in the release cycle. The
1.58 deraadt 384: <a href="errata22.html#rmjob">rmjob</a> and
1.28 naddy 385: <a href="errata22.html#uucpd">uucpd</a> patches should be applied to
1.1 deraadt 386: the system if those subsystems are used.
387: <p>
1.59 deraadt 388:
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390:
1.68 tedu 391: <hr>
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