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1.1 deraadt 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.4 release errata & patch list:
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1.8 jason 23: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 24: <br>
1.21 deraadt 25: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 26: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
27: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
28: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
29: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
30: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
31: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
32: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
33: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
34: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
35: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 36: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.26 david 37: <a href="errata32.html">3.3</a>,
1.29 ! deraadt 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>.
! 39: <a href="errata.html">3.5</a>.
1.20 deraadt 40: <br>
1.1 deraadt 41: <hr>
42:
1.24 naddy 43: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 44: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
45: This file is updated once a day.
46:
1.9 ericj 47: <p>
1.22 deraadt 48: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.9 ericj 49: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
50:
1.1 deraadt 51: <hr>
1.27 henning 52: <a name="all"></a>
53: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.11 jufi 54: <ul>
1.27 henning 55: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
56: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 millert 57: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
58: from an ext2fs partition.
1.24 naddy 59: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 60: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
61: <p>
1.27 henning 62: <li><a name="lnpanic"></a>
63: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 64: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.24 naddy 65: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 66: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
67: <p>
1.27 henning 68: <li><a name="poll"></a>
69: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 70: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.24 naddy 71: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 72: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
73: <p>
1.27 henning 74: <li><a name="nlink"></a>
75: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 76: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.24 naddy 77: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.1 deraadt 78: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
79: is version four of the patch.</a>
80: <p>
1.27 henning 81: <li><a name="ping"></a>
82: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 83: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.24 naddy 84: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 85: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
86: <p>
1.27 henning 87: <li><a name="ipqrace"></a>
88: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 89: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.24 naddy 90: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 91: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 92: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
93: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 94: <p>
1.27 henning 95: <li><a name="accept"></a>
96: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
98: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.24 naddy 99: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 100: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
101: <p>
1.27 henning 102: <li><a name="maxqueue"></a>
103: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.24 naddy 105: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 106: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
107: <p>
1.27 henning 108: <li><a name="uio"></a>
109: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 110: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
111: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.24 naddy 112: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 113: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
114: <p>
1.27 henning 115: <li><a name="rst"></a>
116: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 117: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.24 naddy 118: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <p>
1.27 henning 121: <li><a name="kvm_mkdb"></a>
122: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
124: memory".
1.24 naddy 125: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
1.27 henning 128: <li><a name="nfs3_solaris7"></a>
129: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 130: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
131: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in a error such as
132: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.24 naddy 133: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 134: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
135: <p>
1.27 henning 136: <li><a name="nfs3"></a>
137: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 138: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
139: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
140: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
141: partition sizes.
1.24 naddy 142: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 143: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
144: <p>
1.27 henning 145: <li><a name="termcap"></a>
146: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 147: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
148: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.24 naddy 149: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 150: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
151: <br>
152: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.24 naddy 153: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 154: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
155: <p>
1.27 henning 156: <li><a name="terminfo"></a>
157: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
159: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.24 naddy 160: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <br>
163: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
164: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
165: alpha and mips, use the
1.24 naddy 166: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 167: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.24 naddy 168: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 169: big endian</a> version.
170: <p>
1.27 henning 171: <li><a name="userdir"></a>
172: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 173: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.24 naddy 174: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 175: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
176: <p>
1.27 henning 177: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
178: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 179: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
180: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.24 naddy 181: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 182: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
183: second version of the patch.
184: <p>
1.27 henning 185: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
186: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 187: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.24 naddy 188: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 189: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
190: <p>
191: </ul>
1.27 henning 192: <a name="i386"></a>
193: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 194: <ul>
1.27 henning 195: <li><a name="tss"></a>
196: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 197: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
198: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.24 naddy 199: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.1 deraadt 200: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
201: <p>
1.27 henning 202: <li><a name="bootargv"></a>
203: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 204: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
205: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 206: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 207: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
208: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
209: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
210: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.24 naddy 211: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.1 deraadt 212: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
213: <p>
1.27 henning 214: <li><a name="trctrap"></a>
215: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 216: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
217: crash.
1.24 naddy 218: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 219: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
220: <p>
1.27 henning 221: <li><a name="installboot"></a>
222: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 223: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 224: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.24 naddy 225: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.1 deraadt 226: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
227: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
228: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
229: <p>
230: </ul>
231: <p>
1.27 henning 232: <a name="mac68k"></a>
233: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 234: <ul>
235: <li>No problems identified yet.
236: </ul>
237: <p>
1.27 henning 238: <a name="sparc"></a>
239: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 240: <ul>
1.27 henning 241: <li><a name="hme"></a>
242: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 243: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 244: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
245: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.24 naddy 246: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 247: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
248: <p>
1.27 henning 249: <li><a name="le"></a>
250: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 251: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
252: sbus le(4) card.
1.24 naddy 253: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 254: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
255: <p>
256: </ul>
1.27 henning 257: <a name="amiga"></a>
258: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 259: <ul>
260: <li>No problems identified yet.
261: </ul>
262: <p>
1.27 henning 263: <a name="pmax"></a>
264: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 265: <ul>
266: <li>No problems identified yet.
267: </ul>
268: <p>
1.27 henning 269: <a name="arc"></a>
270: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 271: <ul>
272: <li>No problems identified yet.
273: </ul>
274: <p>
1.27 henning 275: <a name="alpha"></a>
276: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 277: <ul>
278: <li>No problems identified yet.
279: </ul>
280: <p>
1.27 henning 281: <a name="hp300"></a>
282: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 283: <ul>
1.27 henning 284: <li><a name="hp300X"></a>
285: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 286: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
287: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
288: <p>
289: </ul>
290: <p>
1.27 henning 291: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
292: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 293: <ul>
294: <li>No problems identified yet.
295: </ul>
296: <p>
1.27 henning 297: <a name="powerpc"></a>
298: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 299: <ul>
300: <li>No problems identified yet.
301: </ul>
302: <p>
303:
304:
305: <p>
306: <br>
307:
308: <hr>
1.8 jason 309: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 310: <br>
1.21 deraadt 311: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 312: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
313: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
314: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
315: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
316: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
317: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
318: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
319: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
320: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
321: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 322: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.26 david 323: <a href="errata32.html">3.3</a>,
1.29 ! deraadt 324: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>.
! 325: <a href="errata.html">3.5</a>.
1.20 deraadt 326: <br>
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