=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/errata24.html,v retrieving revision 1.75 retrieving revision 1.76 diff -u -r1.75 -r1.76 --- www/errata24.html 2016/08/15 02:22:06 1.75 +++ www/errata24.html 2016/10/16 19:11:29 1.76 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
- + You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches. This file is updated once a day.

@@ -91,28 +91,28 @@   All architectures
A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg from an ext2fs partition. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • RELIABILITY FIX   All architectures
    A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • SECURITY FIX   All architectures
    A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2). - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • SECURITY FIX   All architectures
    A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. It must be installed after the maxqueue patch. and the tcp decoding patch. @@ -137,14 +137,14 @@   All architectures
    A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • SECURITY FIX   All architectures
    IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • @@ -152,14 +152,14 @@   All architectures
    The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a struct iovec with an iov_len of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • SECURITY FIX   All architectures
    TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@   All architectures
    During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate memory". - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7 hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as "Inappropriate file type or format". - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ 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. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • @@ -194,11 +194,11 @@   All architectures
    A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
    Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the -i386 +i386 platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.

  • @@ -206,22 +206,22 @@   All architectures
    A workaround for an xterm problem that causes vi to not restore the correct cursor position on exit. - + 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 - + little endian version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the - + big endian version.

  • FUNCTIONALITY FIX   All architectures
    userdir support was accidentally left out of httpd(8). - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@   All architectures
    A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled by default, but some people may actually be using it. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This is the second version of the patch.

    @@ -237,14 +237,14 @@ SECURITY FIX   All architectures
    A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • SECURITY FIX
    This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the crashme program. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • @@ -256,21 +256,21 @@ 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. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • SECURITY FIX
    i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system crash. - + 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. - + 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. @@ -280,14 +280,14 @@ 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. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  • DRIVER FIX
    The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of sbus le(4) card. - + A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.