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17: This is the OpenBSD 2.4 release errata & patch list:
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22: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
23: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
24: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
25: <a href=errata.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
26: <hr>
27:
28: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz>
29: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
30: This file is updated once a day.
31:
32: <hr>
33:
34: <ul>
35: <a name=all></a>
36: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
37: <ul>
1.2 ! deraadt 38: <a name=lnpanic></a>
! 39: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
! 40: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
! 41: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch>
! 42: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
! 43: <p>
1.1 deraadt 44: <a name=poll></a>
45: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
46: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
47: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch>
48: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
49: <p>
50: <a name=nlink></a>
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
52: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
53: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch>
54: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
55: is version four of the patch.</a>
56: <p>
57: <a name=ping></a>
58: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
59: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
60: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch>
61: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
62: <p>
63: <a name=ipqrace></a>
64: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
65: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
66: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch>
67: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
68: It must be installed after <a href=errata24.html#maxqueue>the maxqueue patch</a>.
69: and <a href=errata24.html#tcpfix>the tcp decoding patch</a>.
70: <p>
71: <a name=accept></a>
72: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
73: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
74: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
75: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch>
76: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
77: <p>
78: <a name=maxqueue></a>
79: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
80: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
81: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch>
82: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
83: <p>
84: <a name=uio></a>
85: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
86: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
87: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
88: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch>
89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
91: <a name=rst></a>
92: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
93: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
94: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch>
95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
97: <a name=kvm_mkdb></a>
98: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
99: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
100: memory".
101: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch>
102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: <p>
104: <a name=nfs3_solaris7></a>
105: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
106: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
107: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in a error such as
108: "Inappropriate file type or format".
109: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch>
110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
112: <a name=nfs3></a>
113: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
114: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
115: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
116: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
117: partition sizes.
118: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch>
119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <p>
121: <a name=termcap></a>
122: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
123: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
124: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
125: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch>
126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <br>
128: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
129: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz>i386</a>
130: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
131: <p>
132: <a name=terminfo></a>
133: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
134: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
135: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
136: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch>
137: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
138: <br>
139: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
140: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
141: alpha and mips, use the
142: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz>
143: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
144: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz>
145: big endian</a> version.
146: <p>
147: <a name=userdir></a>
148: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
149: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
150: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch>
151: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
152: <p>
153: <a name=bootpd></a>
154: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
155: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
156: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
157: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch>
158: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
159: second version of the patch.
160: <p>
161: <a name=tcpfix></a>
162: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
163: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
164: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch>
165: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
166: <p>
167: </ul>
168: <a name=i386></a>
169: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
170: <ul>
171: <a name=tss></a>
172: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
173: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
174: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
175: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch>
176: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
177: <p>
178: <a name=bootargv></a>
179: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
180: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
181: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
182: </strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
183: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
184: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
185: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
186: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
187: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch>
188: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
189: <p>
190: <a name=trctrap></a>
191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
192: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
193: crash.
194: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch>
195: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
196: <p>
197: <a name=installboot></a>
198: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
199: i386 installboot had a sign extention bug which prevented proper bootblock
200: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
201: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch>
202: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
203: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
204: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
205: <p>
206: </ul>
207: <p>
208: <a name=mac68k></a>
209: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
210: <ul>
211: <p>
212: <li>No problems identified yet.
213: </ul>
214: <p>
215: <a name=sparc></a>
216: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
217: <ul>
218: <a name=hme></a>
219: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
220: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of of SS-20
221: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
222: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
223: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch>
224: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
225: <p>
226: <a name=le></a>
227: <li><font color=#009000><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
228: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
229: sbus le(4) card.
230: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch>
231: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
232: <p>
233: </ul>
234: <a name=amiga></a>
235: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
236: <ul>
237: <li>No problems identified yet.
238: </ul>
239: <p>
240: <a name=pmax></a>
241: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
242: <ul>
243: <li>No problems identified yet.
244: </ul>
245: <p>
246: <a name=arc></a>
247: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
248: <ul>
249: <li>No problems identified yet.
250: </ul>
251: <p>
252: <a name=alpha></a>
253: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
254: <ul>
255: <li>No problems identified yet.
256: </ul>
257: <p>
258: <a name=hp300></a>
259: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
260: <ul>
261: <a name=hp300X></a>
262: <li><font color=#009000><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
263: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
264: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
265: <p>
266: </ul>
267: <p>
268: <a name=mvme68k></a>
269: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
270: <ul>
271: <li>No problems identified yet.
272: </ul>
273: <p>
274: <a name=powerpc></a>
275: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
276: <ul>
277: <li>No problems identified yet.
278: </ul>
279: <p>
280:
281:
282: <p>
283: </ul>
284: <br>
285:
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287: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
288: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
289: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
290: <a href=errata.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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