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1.1 deraadt 16: This is the OpenBSD 2.4 release errata & patch list:
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1.8 jason 21: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 22: <br>
1.21 deraadt 23: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 24: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
25: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
26: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
27: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
28: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
29: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
30: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
31: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
32: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
33: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 34: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.39 david 35: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 36: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 37: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 38: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.57 deraadt 39: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.42 deraadt 40: <br>
1.35 deraadt 41: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 deraadt 42: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.37 deraadt 43: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.40 merdely 44: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 45: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.42 deraadt 46: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.44 deraadt 47: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.45 deraadt 48: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.46 deraadt 49: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.48 deraadt 50: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.49 miod 51: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.50 nick 52: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.51 sthen 53: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.52 deraadt 54: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.53 deraadt 55: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.54 deraadt 56: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
1.57 deraadt 57: <br>
1.55 deraadt 58: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
59: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>.
1.20 deraadt 60: <br>
1.1 deraadt 61: <hr>
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1.47 sthen 63: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 64: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
65: This file is updated once a day.
1.58 deraadt 66: <p>
1.1 deraadt 67:
1.58 deraadt 68: The patches below are available in CVS via the
69: <code>OPENBSD_2_4</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.9 ericj 70: <p>
1.58 deraadt 71:
1.22 deraadt 72: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.58 deraadt 73: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
74: <p>
1.9 ericj 75:
1.1 deraadt 76: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 77:
1.11 jufi 78: <ul>
1.27 henning 79: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
1.61 deraadt 80: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
81: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 millert 82: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
83: from an ext2fs partition.
1.47 sthen 84: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 85: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
86: <p>
1.27 henning 87: <li><a name="lnpanic"></a>
1.61 deraadt 88: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
89: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 90: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.47 sthen 91: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
93: <p>
1.27 henning 94: <li><a name="poll"></a>
1.61 deraadt 95: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
96: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.47 sthen 98: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: <p>
1.27 henning 101: <li><a name="nlink"></a>
1.61 deraadt 102: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
103: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.47 sthen 105: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.58 deraadt 106: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
107: This is version four of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 108: <p>
1.27 henning 109: <li><a name="ping"></a>
1.61 deraadt 110: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
111: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.47 sthen 113: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: <p>
1.27 henning 116: <li><a name="ipqrace"></a>
1.61 deraadt 117: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
118: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 119: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.47 sthen 120: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 122: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
123: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 124: <p>
1.27 henning 125: <li><a name="accept"></a>
1.61 deraadt 126: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
127: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 128: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
129: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.47 sthen 130: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
1.27 henning 133: <li><a name="maxqueue"></a>
1.61 deraadt 134: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
135: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.47 sthen 137: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 138: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
139: <p>
1.27 henning 140: <li><a name="uio"></a>
1.61 deraadt 141: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
142: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
144: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.55 deraadt 145: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 146: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
147: <p>
1.27 henning 148: <li><a name="rst"></a>
1.61 deraadt 149: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
150: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 151: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.47 sthen 152: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <p>
1.27 henning 155: <li><a name="kvm_mkdb"></a>
1.61 deraadt 156: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
157: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
1.55 deraadt 159: memory".
1.47 sthen 160: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <p>
1.27 henning 163: <li><a name="nfs3_solaris7"></a>
1.61 deraadt 164: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
165: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 166: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 167: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 168: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.47 sthen 169: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 170: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
171: <p>
1.27 henning 172: <li><a name="nfs3"></a>
1.61 deraadt 173: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
174: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 175: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
176: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
177: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
178: partition sizes.
1.47 sthen 179: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 180: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
181: <p>
1.27 henning 182: <li><a name="termcap"></a>
1.61 deraadt 183: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
184: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 185: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
186: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.47 sthen 187: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 188: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
189: <br>
190: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.47 sthen 191: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 192: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
193: <p>
1.27 henning 194: <li><a name="terminfo"></a>
1.61 deraadt 195: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
196: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 197: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
198: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.47 sthen 199: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 200: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
201: <br>
202: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
203: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
204: alpha and mips, use the
1.47 sthen 205: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 206: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.47 sthen 207: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 208: big endian</a> version.
209: <p>
1.27 henning 210: <li><a name="userdir"></a>
1.61 deraadt 211: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
212: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 213: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.47 sthen 214: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 215: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
216: <p>
1.27 henning 217: <li><a name="bootpd"></a>
1.61 deraadt 218: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
219: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 220: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
221: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.47 sthen 222: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.58 deraadt 223: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
224: This is the second version of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 225: <p>
1.27 henning 226: <li><a name="tcpfix"></a>
1.61 deraadt 227: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
228: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 229: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.47 sthen 230: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 231: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
232: <p>
1.27 henning 233: <li><a name="tss"></a>
234: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 235: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
236: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.47 sthen 237: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.58 deraadt 238: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 239: <p>
1.27 henning 240: <li><a name="bootargv"></a>
241: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 242: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
243: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 244: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 245: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
246: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
247: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
248: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.47 sthen 249: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.58 deraadt 250: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 251: <p>
1.27 henning 252: <li><a name="trctrap"></a>
253: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 254: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
255: crash.
1.47 sthen 256: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.58 deraadt 257: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 258: <p>
1.27 henning 259: <li><a name="installboot"></a>
260: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 261: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 262: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.47 sthen 263: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.58 deraadt 264: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 265: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
266: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
267: <p>
1.27 henning 268: <li><a name="hme"></a>
269: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 270: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 271: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
272: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.47 sthen 273: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 274: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
275: <p>
1.27 henning 276: <li><a name="le"></a>
277: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 278: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
1.55 deraadt 279: sbus le(4) card.
1.47 sthen 280: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 281: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
282: <p>
1.27 henning 283: <li><a name="hp300X"></a>
284: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 285: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
286: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
287: <p>
288: </ul>
289: <p>
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