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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>,
1.49 miod 53: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.50 ! nick 54: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
! 55: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>.
1.20 deraadt 56: <br>
1.1 deraadt 57: <hr>
58:
1.47 sthen 59: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 60: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
61: This file is updated once a day.
62:
1.9 ericj 63: <p>
1.22 deraadt 64: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.9 ericj 65: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
66:
1.1 deraadt 67: <hr>
1.27 henning 68: <a name="all"></a>
69: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.11 jufi 70: <ul>
1.27 henning 71: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
72: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.3 millert 73: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
74: from an ext2fs partition.
1.47 sthen 75: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 76: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
77: <p>
1.27 henning 78: <li><a name="lnpanic"></a>
79: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 80: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.47 sthen 81: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 82: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
83: <p>
1.27 henning 84: <li><a name="poll"></a>
85: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 86: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.47 sthen 87: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 88: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
89: <p>
1.27 henning 90: <li><a name="nlink"></a>
91: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 92: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.47 sthen 93: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.1 deraadt 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem. This
95: is version four of the patch.</a>
96: <p>
1.27 henning 97: <li><a name="ping"></a>
98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.47 sthen 100: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 101: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
102: <p>
1.27 henning 103: <li><a name="ipqrace"></a>
104: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 105: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.47 sthen 106: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 108: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
109: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 110: <p>
1.27 henning 111: <li><a name="accept"></a>
112: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
114: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.47 sthen 115: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <p>
1.27 henning 118: <li><a name="maxqueue"></a>
119: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.47 sthen 121: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 122: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
123: <p>
1.27 henning 124: <li><a name="uio"></a>
125: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 126: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
127: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.47 sthen 128: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 129: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
130: <p>
1.27 henning 131: <li><a name="rst"></a>
132: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 133: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.47 sthen 134: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
1.27 henning 137: <li><a name="kvm_mkdb"></a>
138: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 139: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
140: memory".
1.47 sthen 141: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
143: <p>
1.27 henning 144: <li><a name="nfs3_solaris7"></a>
145: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 146: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 147: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 148: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.47 sthen 149: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 150: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
151: <p>
1.27 henning 152: <li><a name="nfs3"></a>
153: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 154: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
155: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
156: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
157: partition sizes.
1.47 sthen 158: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 159: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
160: <p>
1.27 henning 161: <li><a name="termcap"></a>
162: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 163: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
164: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.47 sthen 165: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 166: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
167: <br>
168: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.47 sthen 169: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 170: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
171: <p>
1.27 henning 172: <li><a name="terminfo"></a>
173: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 174: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
175: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.47 sthen 176: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
178: <br>
179: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
180: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
181: alpha and mips, use the
1.47 sthen 182: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 183: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.47 sthen 184: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 185: big endian</a> version.
186: <p>
1.27 henning 187: <li><a name="userdir"></a>
188: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 189: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.47 sthen 190: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 191: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
192: <p>
1.27 henning 193: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
194: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 195: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
196: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.47 sthen 197: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.1 deraadt 198: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>, this is the
199: second version of the patch.
200: <p>
1.27 henning 201: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
202: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 203: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.47 sthen 204: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 205: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
206: <p>
207: </ul>
1.27 henning 208: <a name="i386"></a>
209: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 210: <ul>
1.27 henning 211: <li><a name="tss"></a>
212: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 213: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
214: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.47 sthen 215: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.1 deraadt 216: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
217: <p>
1.27 henning 218: <li><a name="bootargv"></a>
219: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 220: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
221: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 222: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 223: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
224: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
225: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
226: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.47 sthen 227: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.1 deraadt 228: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
229: <p>
1.27 henning 230: <li><a name="trctrap"></a>
231: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 232: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
233: crash.
1.47 sthen 234: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 235: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
236: <p>
1.27 henning 237: <li><a name="installboot"></a>
238: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 239: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 240: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.47 sthen 241: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.1 deraadt 242: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
243: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
244: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
245: <p>
246: </ul>
247: <p>
1.27 henning 248: <a name="mac68k"></a>
249: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 250: <ul>
251: <li>No problems identified yet.
252: </ul>
253: <p>
1.27 henning 254: <a name="sparc"></a>
255: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 256: <ul>
1.27 henning 257: <li><a name="hme"></a>
258: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 259: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 260: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
261: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.47 sthen 262: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 263: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
264: <p>
1.27 henning 265: <li><a name="le"></a>
266: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 267: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
268: sbus le(4) card.
1.47 sthen 269: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 270: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
271: <p>
272: </ul>
1.27 henning 273: <a name="amiga"></a>
274: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 275: <ul>
276: <li>No problems identified yet.
277: </ul>
278: <p>
1.27 henning 279: <a name="pmax"></a>
280: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 281: <ul>
282: <li>No problems identified yet.
283: </ul>
284: <p>
1.27 henning 285: <a name="arc"></a>
286: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 287: <ul>
288: <li>No problems identified yet.
289: </ul>
290: <p>
1.27 henning 291: <a name="alpha"></a>
292: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 293: <ul>
294: <li>No problems identified yet.
295: </ul>
296: <p>
1.27 henning 297: <a name="hp300"></a>
298: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 299: <ul>
1.27 henning 300: <li><a name="hp300X"></a>
301: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 302: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
303: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
304: <p>
305: </ul>
306: <p>
1.27 henning 307: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
308: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 309: <ul>
310: <li>No problems identified yet.
311: </ul>
312: <p>
1.27 henning 313: <a name="powerpc"></a>
314: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 315: <ul>
316: <li>No problems identified yet.
317: </ul>
318: <p>
319:
320:
321: <p>
322: <br>
323:
324: <hr>
1.8 jason 325: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 326: <br>
1.21 deraadt 327: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 328: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
329: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
330: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
331: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
332: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
333: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
334: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
335: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
336: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
337: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 338: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.39 david 339: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 340: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 341: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 342: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.42 deraadt 343: <br>
1.34 deraadt 344: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.35 deraadt 345: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 deraadt 346: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.37 deraadt 347: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.40 merdely 348: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 349: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.42 deraadt 350: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.44 deraadt 351: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.45 deraadt 352: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.46 deraadt 353: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.48 deraadt 354: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.49 miod 355: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.50 ! nick 356: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
! 357: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>.
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