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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>,
1.39 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>,
1.44 deraadt 49: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.45 deraadt 50: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.46 deraadt 51: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.48 ! deraadt 52: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
! 53: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>.
1.20 deraadt 54: <br>
1.1 deraadt 55: <hr>
56:
1.47 sthen 57: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 58: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
59: This file is updated once a day.
60:
1.9 ericj 61: <p>
1.22 deraadt 62: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.9 ericj 63: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
64:
1.1 deraadt 65: <hr>
1.27 henning 66: <a name="all"></a>
67: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.11 jufi 68: <ul>
1.27 henning 69: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
70: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 millert 71: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
72: from an ext2fs partition.
1.47 sthen 73: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 74: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
75: <p>
1.27 henning 76: <li><a name="lnpanic"></a>
77: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 78: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.47 sthen 79: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 80: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
81: <p>
1.27 henning 82: <li><a name="poll"></a>
83: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 84: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.47 sthen 85: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 86: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
87: <p>
1.27 henning 88: <li><a name="nlink"></a>
89: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 90: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.47 sthen 91: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.1 deraadt 92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
93: is version four of the patch.</a>
94: <p>
1.27 henning 95: <li><a name="ping"></a>
96: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.47 sthen 98: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: <p>
1.27 henning 101: <li><a name="ipqrace"></a>
102: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 103: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.47 sthen 104: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 106: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
107: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 108: <p>
1.27 henning 109: <li><a name="accept"></a>
110: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 111: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
112: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.47 sthen 113: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: <p>
1.27 henning 116: <li><a name="maxqueue"></a>
117: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 118: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.47 sthen 119: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 120: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
121: <p>
1.27 henning 122: <li><a name="uio"></a>
123: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 124: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
125: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.47 sthen 126: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 127: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
128: <p>
1.27 henning 129: <li><a name="rst"></a>
130: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 131: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.47 sthen 132: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 133: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
134: <p>
1.27 henning 135: <li><a name="kvm_mkdb"></a>
136: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 137: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
138: memory".
1.47 sthen 139: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 140: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
141: <p>
1.27 henning 142: <li><a name="nfs3_solaris7"></a>
143: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 144: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 145: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 146: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.47 sthen 147: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: <p>
1.27 henning 150: <li><a name="nfs3"></a>
151: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 152: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
153: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
154: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
155: partition sizes.
1.47 sthen 156: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 157: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
158: <p>
1.27 henning 159: <li><a name="termcap"></a>
160: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 161: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
162: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.47 sthen 163: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 164: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
165: <br>
166: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.47 sthen 167: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 168: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
169: <p>
1.27 henning 170: <li><a name="terminfo"></a>
171: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 172: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
173: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.47 sthen 174: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 175: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
176: <br>
177: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
178: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
179: alpha and mips, use the
1.47 sthen 180: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 181: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.47 sthen 182: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 183: big endian</a> version.
184: <p>
1.27 henning 185: <li><a name="userdir"></a>
186: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 187: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.47 sthen 188: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 189: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
190: <p>
1.27 henning 191: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
192: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 193: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
194: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.47 sthen 195: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 196: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
197: second version of the patch.
198: <p>
1.27 henning 199: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
200: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 201: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.47 sthen 202: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 203: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
204: <p>
205: </ul>
1.27 henning 206: <a name="i386"></a>
207: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 208: <ul>
1.27 henning 209: <li><a name="tss"></a>
210: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 211: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
212: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.47 sthen 213: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.1 deraadt 214: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
215: <p>
1.27 henning 216: <li><a name="bootargv"></a>
217: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 218: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
219: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 220: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 221: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
222: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
223: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
224: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.47 sthen 225: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.1 deraadt 226: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
227: <p>
1.27 henning 228: <li><a name="trctrap"></a>
229: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 230: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
231: crash.
1.47 sthen 232: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 233: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
234: <p>
1.27 henning 235: <li><a name="installboot"></a>
236: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 237: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 238: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.47 sthen 239: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.1 deraadt 240: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
241: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
242: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
243: <p>
244: </ul>
245: <p>
1.27 henning 246: <a name="mac68k"></a>
247: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 248: <ul>
249: <li>No problems identified yet.
250: </ul>
251: <p>
1.27 henning 252: <a name="sparc"></a>
253: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 254: <ul>
1.27 henning 255: <li><a name="hme"></a>
256: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 257: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 258: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
259: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.47 sthen 260: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 261: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
262: <p>
1.27 henning 263: <li><a name="le"></a>
264: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 265: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
266: sbus le(4) card.
1.47 sthen 267: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 268: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
269: <p>
270: </ul>
1.27 henning 271: <a name="amiga"></a>
272: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 273: <ul>
274: <li>No problems identified yet.
275: </ul>
276: <p>
1.27 henning 277: <a name="pmax"></a>
278: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 279: <ul>
280: <li>No problems identified yet.
281: </ul>
282: <p>
1.27 henning 283: <a name="arc"></a>
284: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 285: <ul>
286: <li>No problems identified yet.
287: </ul>
288: <p>
1.27 henning 289: <a name="alpha"></a>
290: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 291: <ul>
292: <li>No problems identified yet.
293: </ul>
294: <p>
1.27 henning 295: <a name="hp300"></a>
296: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 297: <ul>
1.27 henning 298: <li><a name="hp300X"></a>
299: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 300: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
301: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
302: <p>
303: </ul>
304: <p>
1.27 henning 305: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
306: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 307: <ul>
308: <li>No problems identified yet.
309: </ul>
310: <p>
1.27 henning 311: <a name="powerpc"></a>
312: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 313: <ul>
314: <li>No problems identified yet.
315: </ul>
316: <p>
317:
318:
319: <p>
320: <br>
321:
322: <hr>
1.8 jason 323: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 324: <br>
1.21 deraadt 325: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 326: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
327: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
328: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
329: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
330: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
331: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
332: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
333: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
334: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
335: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 336: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.39 david 337: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 338: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 339: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 340: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.42 deraadt 341: <br>
1.34 deraadt 342: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.35 deraadt 343: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 deraadt 344: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.37 deraadt 345: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.40 merdely 346: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 347: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.42 deraadt 348: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.44 deraadt 349: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.45 deraadt 350: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.46 deraadt 351: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.48 ! deraadt 352: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
! 353: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>.
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