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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>,
1.30 david 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 39: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 40: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.34 deraadt 41: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.35 deraadt 42: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 ! deraadt 43: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
! 44: <a href="errata.html">4.0</a>.
1.20 deraadt 45: <br>
1.1 deraadt 46: <hr>
47:
1.24 naddy 48: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 49: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
50: This file is updated once a day.
51:
1.9 ericj 52: <p>
1.22 deraadt 53: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.9 ericj 54: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
55:
1.1 deraadt 56: <hr>
1.27 henning 57: <a name="all"></a>
58: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.11 jufi 59: <ul>
1.27 henning 60: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
61: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 millert 62: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
63: from an ext2fs partition.
1.24 naddy 64: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 65: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
66: <p>
1.27 henning 67: <li><a name="lnpanic"></a>
68: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 69: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.24 naddy 70: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 71: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
72: <p>
1.27 henning 73: <li><a name="poll"></a>
74: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 75: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.24 naddy 76: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 77: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
78: <p>
1.27 henning 79: <li><a name="nlink"></a>
80: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 81: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.24 naddy 82: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.1 deraadt 83: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
84: is version four of the patch.</a>
85: <p>
1.27 henning 86: <li><a name="ping"></a>
87: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 88: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.24 naddy 89: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 90: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
91: <p>
1.27 henning 92: <li><a name="ipqrace"></a>
93: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 94: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.24 naddy 95: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 96: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 97: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
98: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 99: <p>
1.27 henning 100: <li><a name="accept"></a>
101: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 102: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
103: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.24 naddy 104: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
106: <p>
1.27 henning 107: <li><a name="maxqueue"></a>
108: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 109: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.24 naddy 110: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 111: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
112: <p>
1.27 henning 113: <li><a name="uio"></a>
114: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 115: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
116: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.24 naddy 117: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119: <p>
1.27 henning 120: <li><a name="rst"></a>
121: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 122: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.24 naddy 123: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
1.27 henning 126: <li><a name="kvm_mkdb"></a>
127: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 128: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
129: memory".
1.24 naddy 130: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
1.27 henning 133: <li><a name="nfs3_solaris7"></a>
134: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 135: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 136: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 137: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.24 naddy 138: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 139: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
140: <p>
1.27 henning 141: <li><a name="nfs3"></a>
142: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
144: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
145: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
146: partition sizes.
1.24 naddy 147: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: <p>
1.27 henning 150: <li><a name="termcap"></a>
151: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 152: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
153: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.24 naddy 154: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
156: <br>
157: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.24 naddy 158: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 159: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
160: <p>
1.27 henning 161: <li><a name="terminfo"></a>
162: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 163: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
164: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.24 naddy 165: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 166: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
167: <br>
168: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
169: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
170: alpha and mips, use the
1.24 naddy 171: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 172: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.24 naddy 173: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 174: big endian</a> version.
175: <p>
1.27 henning 176: <li><a name="userdir"></a>
177: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 178: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.24 naddy 179: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 180: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
181: <p>
1.27 henning 182: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
183: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 184: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
185: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.24 naddy 186: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 187: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
188: second version of the patch.
189: <p>
1.27 henning 190: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
191: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 192: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.24 naddy 193: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 194: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
195: <p>
196: </ul>
1.27 henning 197: <a name="i386"></a>
198: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 199: <ul>
1.27 henning 200: <li><a name="tss"></a>
201: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 202: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
203: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.24 naddy 204: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.1 deraadt 205: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
206: <p>
1.27 henning 207: <li><a name="bootargv"></a>
208: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 209: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
210: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 211: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 212: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
213: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
214: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
215: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.24 naddy 216: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.1 deraadt 217: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
218: <p>
1.27 henning 219: <li><a name="trctrap"></a>
220: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 221: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
222: crash.
1.24 naddy 223: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 224: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
225: <p>
1.27 henning 226: <li><a name="installboot"></a>
227: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 228: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 229: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.24 naddy 230: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.1 deraadt 231: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
232: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
233: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
234: <p>
235: </ul>
236: <p>
1.27 henning 237: <a name="mac68k"></a>
238: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 239: <ul>
240: <li>No problems identified yet.
241: </ul>
242: <p>
1.27 henning 243: <a name="sparc"></a>
244: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 245: <ul>
1.27 henning 246: <li><a name="hme"></a>
247: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 248: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 249: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
250: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.24 naddy 251: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 252: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
253: <p>
1.27 henning 254: <li><a name="le"></a>
255: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 256: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
257: sbus le(4) card.
1.24 naddy 258: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 259: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
260: <p>
261: </ul>
1.27 henning 262: <a name="amiga"></a>
263: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 264: <ul>
265: <li>No problems identified yet.
266: </ul>
267: <p>
1.27 henning 268: <a name="pmax"></a>
269: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 270: <ul>
271: <li>No problems identified yet.
272: </ul>
273: <p>
1.27 henning 274: <a name="arc"></a>
275: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 276: <ul>
277: <li>No problems identified yet.
278: </ul>
279: <p>
1.27 henning 280: <a name="alpha"></a>
281: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 282: <ul>
283: <li>No problems identified yet.
284: </ul>
285: <p>
1.27 henning 286: <a name="hp300"></a>
287: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 288: <ul>
1.27 henning 289: <li><a name="hp300X"></a>
290: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 291: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
292: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
293: <p>
294: </ul>
295: <p>
1.27 henning 296: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
297: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 298: <ul>
299: <li>No problems identified yet.
300: </ul>
301: <p>
1.27 henning 302: <a name="powerpc"></a>
303: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 304: <ul>
305: <li>No problems identified yet.
306: </ul>
307: <p>
308:
309:
310: <p>
311: <br>
312:
313: <hr>
1.8 jason 314: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 315: <br>
1.21 deraadt 316: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 317: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
318: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
319: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
320: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
321: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
322: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
323: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
324: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
325: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
326: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 327: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.26 david 328: <a href="errata32.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 329: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 330: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 331: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.34 deraadt 332: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.35 deraadt 333: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 ! deraadt 334: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
! 335: <a href="errata.html">4.0</a>.
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