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1.1 deraadt 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.4 release errata & patch list:
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22: <hr>
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>,
1.39 david 37: <a href="errata33.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>,
1.42 ! deraadt 41: <br>
1.34 deraadt 42: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.35 deraadt 43: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 deraadt 44: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.37 deraadt 45: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.40 merdely 46: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 47: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.42 ! deraadt 48: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
! 49: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>.
1.20 deraadt 50: <br>
1.1 deraadt 51: <hr>
52:
1.24 naddy 53: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 54: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
55: This file is updated once a day.
56:
1.9 ericj 57: <p>
1.22 deraadt 58: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.9 ericj 59: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
60:
1.1 deraadt 61: <hr>
1.27 henning 62: <a name="all"></a>
63: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.11 jufi 64: <ul>
1.27 henning 65: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
66: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 millert 67: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
68: from an ext2fs partition.
1.24 naddy 69: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 70: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
71: <p>
1.27 henning 72: <li><a name="lnpanic"></a>
73: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 74: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.24 naddy 75: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 76: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
77: <p>
1.27 henning 78: <li><a name="poll"></a>
79: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 80: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.24 naddy 81: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 82: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
83: <p>
1.27 henning 84: <li><a name="nlink"></a>
85: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 86: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.24 naddy 87: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.1 deraadt 88: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
89: is version four of the patch.</a>
90: <p>
1.27 henning 91: <li><a name="ping"></a>
92: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.24 naddy 94: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.27 henning 97: <li><a name="ipqrace"></a>
98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.24 naddy 100: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 101: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 102: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
103: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 104: <p>
1.27 henning 105: <li><a name="accept"></a>
106: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
108: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.24 naddy 109: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
1.27 henning 112: <li><a name="maxqueue"></a>
113: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.24 naddy 115: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <p>
1.27 henning 118: <li><a name="uio"></a>
119: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
121: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.24 naddy 122: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
124: <p>
1.27 henning 125: <li><a name="rst"></a>
126: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.24 naddy 128: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 129: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
130: <p>
1.27 henning 131: <li><a name="kvm_mkdb"></a>
132: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 133: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
134: memory".
1.24 naddy 135: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 136: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
137: <p>
1.27 henning 138: <li><a name="nfs3_solaris7"></a>
139: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 140: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 141: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 142: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.24 naddy 143: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.27 henning 146: <li><a name="nfs3"></a>
147: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 148: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
149: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
150: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
151: partition sizes.
1.24 naddy 152: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <p>
1.27 henning 155: <li><a name="termcap"></a>
156: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 157: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
158: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.24 naddy 159: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 160: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
161: <br>
162: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.24 naddy 163: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 164: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
165: <p>
1.27 henning 166: <li><a name="terminfo"></a>
167: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 168: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
169: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.24 naddy 170: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 171: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
172: <br>
173: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
174: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
175: alpha and mips, use the
1.24 naddy 176: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 177: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.24 naddy 178: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 179: big endian</a> version.
180: <p>
1.27 henning 181: <li><a name="userdir"></a>
182: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 183: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.24 naddy 184: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 185: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
186: <p>
1.27 henning 187: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
188: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 189: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
190: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.24 naddy 191: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 192: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
193: second version of the patch.
194: <p>
1.27 henning 195: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
196: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 197: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.24 naddy 198: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 199: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
200: <p>
201: </ul>
1.27 henning 202: <a name="i386"></a>
203: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 204: <ul>
1.27 henning 205: <li><a name="tss"></a>
206: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 207: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
208: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.24 naddy 209: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.1 deraadt 210: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
211: <p>
1.27 henning 212: <li><a name="bootargv"></a>
213: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 214: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
215: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 216: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 217: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
218: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
219: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
220: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.24 naddy 221: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.1 deraadt 222: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
223: <p>
1.27 henning 224: <li><a name="trctrap"></a>
225: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 226: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
227: crash.
1.24 naddy 228: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 229: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
230: <p>
1.27 henning 231: <li><a name="installboot"></a>
232: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 233: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 234: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.24 naddy 235: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.1 deraadt 236: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
237: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
238: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
239: <p>
240: </ul>
241: <p>
1.27 henning 242: <a name="mac68k"></a>
243: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 244: <ul>
245: <li>No problems identified yet.
246: </ul>
247: <p>
1.27 henning 248: <a name="sparc"></a>
249: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 250: <ul>
1.27 henning 251: <li><a name="hme"></a>
252: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 253: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 254: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
255: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.24 naddy 256: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 257: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
258: <p>
1.27 henning 259: <li><a name="le"></a>
260: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 261: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
262: sbus le(4) card.
1.24 naddy 263: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 264: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
265: <p>
266: </ul>
1.27 henning 267: <a name="amiga"></a>
268: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 269: <ul>
270: <li>No problems identified yet.
271: </ul>
272: <p>
1.27 henning 273: <a name="pmax"></a>
274: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 275: <ul>
276: <li>No problems identified yet.
277: </ul>
278: <p>
1.27 henning 279: <a name="arc"></a>
280: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 281: <ul>
282: <li>No problems identified yet.
283: </ul>
284: <p>
1.27 henning 285: <a name="alpha"></a>
286: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 287: <ul>
288: <li>No problems identified yet.
289: </ul>
290: <p>
1.27 henning 291: <a name="hp300"></a>
292: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 293: <ul>
1.27 henning 294: <li><a name="hp300X"></a>
295: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 296: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
297: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
298: <p>
299: </ul>
300: <p>
1.27 henning 301: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
302: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 303: <ul>
304: <li>No problems identified yet.
305: </ul>
306: <p>
1.27 henning 307: <a name="powerpc"></a>
308: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 309: <ul>
310: <li>No problems identified yet.
311: </ul>
312: <p>
313:
314:
315: <p>
316: <br>
317:
318: <hr>
1.8 jason 319: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 320: <br>
1.21 deraadt 321: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 322: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
323: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
324: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
325: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
326: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
327: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
328: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
329: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
330: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
331: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 332: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.39 david 333: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 334: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 335: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 336: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.42 ! deraadt 337: <br>
1.34 deraadt 338: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.35 deraadt 339: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 deraadt 340: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.37 deraadt 341: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.40 merdely 342: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 343: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.42 ! deraadt 344: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
! 345: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>.
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