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1.1 deraadt 25:
1.8 jason 26: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.20 deraadt 27: <br>
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>,
32: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
33: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
34: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
35: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
36: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
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>,
1.57 deraadt 44: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.42 deraadt 45: <br>
1.35 deraadt 46: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 deraadt 47: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
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>,
1.57 deraadt 62: <br>
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>,
1.70 deraadt 66: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
1.71 deraadt 67: <a href="errata58.html">5.8</a>,
68: <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>.
1.20 deraadt 69: <br>
1.1 deraadt 70: <hr>
71:
1.47 sthen 72: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 73: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
74: This file is updated once a day.
1.58 deraadt 75: <p>
1.1 deraadt 76:
1.58 deraadt 77: The patches below are available in CVS via the
78: <code>OPENBSD_2_4</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.9 ericj 79: <p>
1.58 deraadt 80:
1.22 deraadt 81: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.58 deraadt 82: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
83: <p>
1.9 ericj 84:
1.1 deraadt 85: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 86:
1.11 jufi 87: <ul>
1.65 bentley 88: <li id="bmap">
1.61 deraadt 89: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
90: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 millert 91: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
92: from an ext2fs partition.
1.47 sthen 93: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
1.65 bentley 96: <li id="lnpanic">
1.61 deraadt 97: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
98: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 99: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.47 sthen 100: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 101: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
102: <p>
1.65 bentley 103: <li id="poll">
1.61 deraadt 104: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
105: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.47 sthen 107: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 108: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109: <p>
1.65 bentley 110: <li id="nlink">
1.61 deraadt 111: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
112: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.47 sthen 114: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.58 deraadt 115: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
116: This is version four of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 117: <p>
1.65 bentley 118: <li id="ping">
1.61 deraadt 119: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
120: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 121: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.47 sthen 122: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
124: <p>
1.65 bentley 125: <li id="ipqrace">
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 in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.47 sthen 129: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 131: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
132: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 133: <p>
1.65 bentley 134: <li id="accept">
1.61 deraadt 135: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
136: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 137: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
138: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.47 sthen 139: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 140: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
141: <p>
1.65 bentley 142: <li id="maxqueue">
1.61 deraadt 143: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
144: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 145: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.47 sthen 146: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 147: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
148: <p>
1.65 bentley 149: <li id="uio">
1.61 deraadt 150: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
151: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 152: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
153: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.55 deraadt 154: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
156: <p>
1.65 bentley 157: <li id="rst">
1.61 deraadt 158: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
159: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 160: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.47 sthen 161: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 162: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
163: <p>
1.65 bentley 164: <li id="kvm_mkdb">
1.61 deraadt 165: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
166: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 167: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
1.55 deraadt 168: memory".
1.47 sthen 169: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 170: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
171: <p>
1.65 bentley 172: <li id="nfs3_solaris7">
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 writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 176: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 177: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.47 sthen 178: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 179: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
180: <p>
1.65 bentley 181: <li id="nfs3">
1.61 deraadt 182: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
183: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 184: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
185: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
186: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
187: partition sizes.
1.47 sthen 188: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 189: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
190: <p>
1.65 bentley 191: <li id="termcap">
1.61 deraadt 192: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
193: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 194: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
195: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.47 sthen 196: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 197: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
198: <br>
199: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.47 sthen 200: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 201: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
202: <p>
1.65 bentley 203: <li id="terminfo">
1.61 deraadt 204: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
205: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 206: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
207: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.47 sthen 208: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 209: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
210: <br>
211: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
212: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
213: alpha and mips, use the
1.47 sthen 214: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 215: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.47 sthen 216: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 217: big endian</a> version.
218: <p>
1.65 bentley 219: <li id="userdir">
1.61 deraadt 220: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
221: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 222: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.47 sthen 223: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 224: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
225: <p>
1.65 bentley 226: <li id="bootpd">
1.61 deraadt 227: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
228: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 229: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
230: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.47 sthen 231: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.58 deraadt 232: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
233: This is the second version of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 234: <p>
1.65 bentley 235: <li id="tcpfix">
1.61 deraadt 236: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
237: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 238: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.47 sthen 239: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 240: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
241: <p>
1.65 bentley 242: <li id="tss">
1.27 henning 243: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 244: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
245: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.47 sthen 246: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.58 deraadt 247: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 248: <p>
1.65 bentley 249: <li id="bootargv">
1.27 henning 250: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 251: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
252: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 253: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 254: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
255: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
256: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
257: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.47 sthen 258: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.58 deraadt 259: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 260: <p>
1.65 bentley 261: <li id="trctrap">
1.27 henning 262: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 263: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
264: crash.
1.47 sthen 265: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.58 deraadt 266: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 267: <p>
1.65 bentley 268: <li id="installboot">
1.27 henning 269: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 270: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 271: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.47 sthen 272: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.58 deraadt 273: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 274: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
275: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
276: <p>
1.65 bentley 277: <li id="hme">
1.27 henning 278: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 279: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 280: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
281: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.47 sthen 282: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 283: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
284: <p>
1.65 bentley 285: <li id="le">
1.27 henning 286: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 287: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
1.55 deraadt 288: sbus le(4) card.
1.47 sthen 289: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 290: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
291: <p>
1.65 bentley 292: <li id="hp300X">
1.27 henning 293: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 294: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
295: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
296: <p>
297: </ul>
298: <p>
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