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1.8 jason 26: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
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1.21 deraadt 28: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 29: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
30: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
31: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
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37: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
38: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 39: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.39 david 40: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 41: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 42: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 43: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
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1.37 deraadt 48: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.40 merdely 49: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 50: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.42 deraadt 51: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.44 deraadt 52: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.45 deraadt 53: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.46 deraadt 54: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.48 deraadt 55: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.49 miod 56: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.50 nick 57: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.51 sthen 58: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.52 deraadt 59: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.53 deraadt 60: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.54 deraadt 61: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
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1.55 deraadt 63: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
1.63 jsg 64: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
1.67 deraadt 65: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
66: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 68: <hr>
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1.47 sthen 70: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 71: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
72: This file is updated once a day.
1.58 deraadt 73: <p>
1.1 deraadt 74:
1.58 deraadt 75: The patches below are available in CVS via the
76: <code>OPENBSD_2_4</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.9 ericj 77: <p>
1.58 deraadt 78:
1.22 deraadt 79: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.58 deraadt 80: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
81: <p>
1.9 ericj 82:
1.1 deraadt 83: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 84:
1.11 jufi 85: <ul>
1.65 bentley 86: <li id="bmap">
1.61 deraadt 87: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
88: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 millert 89: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
90: from an ext2fs partition.
1.47 sthen 91: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
93: <p>
1.65 bentley 94: <li id="lnpanic">
1.61 deraadt 95: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
96: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 97: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.47 sthen 98: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: <p>
1.65 bentley 101: <li id="poll">
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 poll(2).
1.47 sthen 105: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 106: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
107: <p>
1.65 bentley 108: <li id="nlink">
1.61 deraadt 109: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
110: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 111: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.47 sthen 112: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.58 deraadt 113: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
114: This is version four of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 115: <p>
1.65 bentley 116: <li id="ping">
1.61 deraadt 117: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
118: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 119: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.47 sthen 120: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
122: <p>
1.65 bentley 123: <li id="ipqrace">
1.61 deraadt 124: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
125: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 126: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.47 sthen 127: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 128: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 129: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
130: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 131: <p>
1.65 bentley 132: <li id="accept">
1.61 deraadt 133: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
134: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 135: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
136: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.47 sthen 137: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 138: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
139: <p>
1.65 bentley 140: <li id="maxqueue">
1.61 deraadt 141: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
142: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.47 sthen 144: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 145: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
146: <p>
1.65 bentley 147: <li id="uio">
1.61 deraadt 148: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
149: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 150: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
151: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.55 deraadt 152: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <p>
1.65 bentley 155: <li id="rst">
1.61 deraadt 156: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
157: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.47 sthen 159: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 160: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
161: <p>
1.65 bentley 162: <li id="kvm_mkdb">
1.61 deraadt 163: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
164: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 165: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
1.55 deraadt 166: memory".
1.47 sthen 167: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 168: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
169: <p>
1.65 bentley 170: <li id="nfs3_solaris7">
1.61 deraadt 171: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
172: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 173: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 174: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 175: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.47 sthen 176: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
178: <p>
1.65 bentley 179: <li id="nfs3">
1.61 deraadt 180: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
181: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 182: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
183: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
184: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
185: partition sizes.
1.47 sthen 186: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 187: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
188: <p>
1.65 bentley 189: <li id="termcap">
1.61 deraadt 190: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
191: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 192: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
193: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.47 sthen 194: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 195: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
196: <br>
197: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.47 sthen 198: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 199: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
200: <p>
1.65 bentley 201: <li id="terminfo">
1.61 deraadt 202: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
203: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 204: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
205: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.47 sthen 206: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 207: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
208: <br>
209: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
210: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
211: alpha and mips, use the
1.47 sthen 212: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 213: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.47 sthen 214: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 215: big endian</a> version.
216: <p>
1.65 bentley 217: <li id="userdir">
1.61 deraadt 218: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
219: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 220: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.47 sthen 221: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 222: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
223: <p>
1.65 bentley 224: <li id="bootpd">
1.61 deraadt 225: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
226: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 227: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
228: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.47 sthen 229: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.58 deraadt 230: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
231: This is the second version of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 232: <p>
1.65 bentley 233: <li id="tcpfix">
1.61 deraadt 234: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
235: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 236: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.47 sthen 237: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 238: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
239: <p>
1.65 bentley 240: <li id="tss">
1.27 henning 241: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 242: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
243: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.47 sthen 244: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.58 deraadt 245: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 246: <p>
1.65 bentley 247: <li id="bootargv">
1.27 henning 248: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 249: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
250: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 251: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 252: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
253: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
254: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
255: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.47 sthen 256: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.58 deraadt 257: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 258: <p>
1.65 bentley 259: <li id="trctrap">
1.27 henning 260: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 261: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
262: crash.
1.47 sthen 263: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.58 deraadt 264: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 265: <p>
1.65 bentley 266: <li id="installboot">
1.27 henning 267: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 268: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 269: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.47 sthen 270: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.58 deraadt 271: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 272: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
273: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
274: <p>
1.65 bentley 275: <li id="hme">
1.27 henning 276: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 277: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 278: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
279: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.47 sthen 280: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 281: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
282: <p>
1.65 bentley 283: <li id="le">
1.27 henning 284: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 285: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
1.55 deraadt 286: sbus le(4) card.
1.47 sthen 287: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 288: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
289: <p>
1.65 bentley 290: <li id="hp300X">
1.27 henning 291: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 292: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
293: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
294: <p>
295: </ul>
296: <p>
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