FUNCTIONALITY FIX
A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in a error such as
"Inappropriate file type or format".
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
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FUNCTIONALITY FIX
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FUNCTIONALITY FIX
A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
partition sizes.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
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SECURITY FIX
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SECURITY FIX
A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
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platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
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FUNCTIONALITY FIX
A workaround for an xterm problem that causes vi to not
restore the correct cursor position on exit.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
installed as /usr/share/misc/terminfo.db. For i386,
alpha and mips, use the
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little endian version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
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big endian version.
SECURITY FIX
A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
by default, but some people may actually be using it.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem, this is the
second version of the patch.
FUNCTIONALITY FIX
The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
vector passed from the /boot loader. This prevented
/boot from placing the boot arguments vector at any
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stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
FUNCTIONALITY FIX
i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
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No problems identified yet.
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DRIVER FIX
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DRIVER FIX
The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
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