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17: This is the OpenBSD 2.4 release errata & patch list:
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1.8 jason 22: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.1 deraadt 23: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
24: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
25: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.6 deraadt 26: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.7 deraadt 27: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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1.12 ! deraadt 29: <a href=errata28.html>For 2.8 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
! 30: <a href=errata.html>For 2.9 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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32:
33: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz>
34: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
35: This file is updated once a day.
36:
1.9 ericj 37: <p>
38: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
39: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
40:
1.1 deraadt 41: <hr>
1.11 jufi 42: <ul>
1.5 deraadt 43: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 44: <a name=all></a>
45: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
46: <ul>
1.3 millert 47: <a name=bmap></a>
48: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
49: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
50: from an ext2fs partition.
51: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch>
52: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
53: <p>
1.2 deraadt 54: <a name=lnpanic></a>
55: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
56: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
57: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch>
58: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
59: <p>
1.1 deraadt 60: <a name=poll></a>
61: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
62: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
63: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch>
64: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
65: <p>
66: <a name=nlink></a>
67: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
68: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
69: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch>
70: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
71: is version four of the patch.</a>
72: <p>
73: <a name=ping></a>
74: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
75: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
76: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch>
77: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
78: <p>
79: <a name=ipqrace></a>
80: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
81: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
82: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch>
83: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
84: It must be installed after <a href=errata24.html#maxqueue>the maxqueue patch</a>.
85: and <a href=errata24.html#tcpfix>the tcp decoding patch</a>.
86: <p>
87: <a name=accept></a>
88: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
89: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
90: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
91: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch>
92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
93: <p>
94: <a name=maxqueue></a>
95: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
96: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
97: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch>
98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
99: <p>
100: <a name=uio></a>
101: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
102: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
103: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
104: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch>
105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
106: <p>
107: <a name=rst></a>
108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
109: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
110: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch>
111: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
112: <p>
113: <a name=kvm_mkdb></a>
114: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
115: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
116: memory".
117: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch>
118: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119: <p>
120: <a name=nfs3_solaris7></a>
121: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
122: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
123: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in a error such as
124: "Inappropriate file type or format".
125: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch>
126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
128: <a name=nfs3></a>
129: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
130: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
131: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
132: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
133: partition sizes.
134: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch>
135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
137: <a name=termcap></a>
138: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
139: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
140: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
141: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch>
142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
143: <br>
144: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
145: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz>i386</a>
146: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
147: <p>
148: <a name=terminfo></a>
149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
150: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
151: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
152: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch>
153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <br>
155: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
156: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
157: alpha and mips, use the
158: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz>
159: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
160: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz>
161: big endian</a> version.
162: <p>
163: <a name=userdir></a>
164: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
165: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
166: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch>
167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
168: <p>
169: <a name=bootpd></a>
170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
171: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
172: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
173: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch>
174: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
175: second version of the patch.
176: <p>
177: <a name=tcpfix></a>
178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
179: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
180: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch>
181: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
182: <p>
183: </ul>
184: <a name=i386></a>
185: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
186: <ul>
187: <a name=tss></a>
188: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
189: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
190: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
191: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch>
192: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
193: <p>
194: <a name=bootargv></a>
195: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
196: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
197: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 198: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 199: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
200: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
201: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
202: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
203: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch>
204: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
205: <p>
206: <a name=trctrap></a>
207: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
208: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
209: crash.
210: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch>
211: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
212: <p>
213: <a name=installboot></a>
214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
215: i386 installboot had a sign extention bug which prevented proper bootblock
216: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
217: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch>
218: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
219: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
220: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
221: <p>
222: </ul>
223: <p>
224: <a name=mac68k></a>
225: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
226: <ul>
227: <p>
228: <li>No problems identified yet.
229: </ul>
230: <p>
231: <a name=sparc></a>
232: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
233: <ul>
234: <a name=hme></a>
235: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
236: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of of SS-20
237: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
238: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
239: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch>
240: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
241: <p>
242: <a name=le></a>
243: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
244: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
245: sbus le(4) card.
246: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch>
247: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
248: <p>
249: </ul>
250: <a name=amiga></a>
251: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
252: <ul>
253: <li>No problems identified yet.
254: </ul>
255: <p>
256: <a name=pmax></a>
257: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
258: <ul>
259: <li>No problems identified yet.
260: </ul>
261: <p>
262: <a name=arc></a>
263: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
264: <ul>
265: <li>No problems identified yet.
266: </ul>
267: <p>
268: <a name=alpha></a>
269: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
270: <ul>
271: <li>No problems identified yet.
272: </ul>
273: <p>
274: <a name=hp300></a>
275: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
276: <ul>
277: <a name=hp300X></a>
278: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
279: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
280: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
281: <p>
282: </ul>
283: <p>
284: <a name=mvme68k></a>
285: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
286: <ul>
287: <li>No problems identified yet.
288: </ul>
289: <p>
290: <a name=powerpc></a>
291: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
292: <ul>
293: <li>No problems identified yet.
294: </ul>
295: <p>
296:
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1.8 jason 304: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.1 deraadt 305: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
306: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
307: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.6 deraadt 308: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.7 deraadt 309: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 deraadt 310: <a href=errata27.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.12 ! deraadt 311: <a href=errata28.html>For 2.8 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
! 312: <a href=errata.html>For 2.9 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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