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1.73 tj 22: <font color="#e00000">2.4 Errata</font>
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1.1 deraadt 25:
1.21 deraadt 26: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.20 deraadt 27: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
28: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
29: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
30: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
31: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
32: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
33: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
34: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
35: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
36: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 37: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.39 david 38: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 39: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.32 miod 40: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.33 deraadt 41: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.57 deraadt 42: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
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1.35 deraadt 44: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.36 deraadt 45: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.37 deraadt 46: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.40 merdely 47: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 48: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.42 deraadt 49: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.44 deraadt 50: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.45 deraadt 51: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.46 deraadt 52: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.48 deraadt 53: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.49 miod 54: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.50 nick 55: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.51 sthen 56: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.52 deraadt 57: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.53 deraadt 58: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.54 deraadt 59: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
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1.55 deraadt 61: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
1.63 jsg 62: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
1.67 deraadt 63: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
1.70 deraadt 64: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
1.71 deraadt 65: <a href="errata58.html">5.8</a>,
1.74 deraadt 66: <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>,
1.77 tj 67: <a href="errata60.html">6.0</a>,
1.79 deraadt 68: <a href="errata61.html">6.1</a>,
1.80 ! deraadt 69: <a href="errata62.html">6.2</a>,
! 70: <a href="errata63.html">6.3</a>.
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1.9 ericj 73: <p>
1.77 tj 74: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
75: Each patch contains usage instructions.
76: All the following patches are also available in one
77: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
78: for convenience.
1.58 deraadt 79:
80: <p>
1.77 tj 81: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.78 tj 82: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 84: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 85:
1.11 jufi 86: <ul>
1.65 bentley 87: <li id="bmap">
1.61 deraadt 88: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
89: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 millert 90: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
91: from an ext2fs partition.
1.76 tb 92: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 93: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
94: <p>
1.65 bentley 95: <li id="lnpanic">
1.61 deraadt 96: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
97: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 98: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.76 tb 99: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 100: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
101: <p>
1.65 bentley 102: <li id="poll">
1.61 deraadt 103: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
104: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 105: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.76 tb 106: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
1.65 bentley 109: <li id="nlink">
1.61 deraadt 110: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
111: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.76 tb 113: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.58 deraadt 114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: This is version four of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 116: <p>
1.65 bentley 117: <li id="ping">
1.61 deraadt 118: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
119: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.76 tb 121: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 122: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
123: <p>
1.65 bentley 124: <li id="ipqrace">
1.61 deraadt 125: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
126: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.76 tb 128: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 129: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 130: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
131: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 132: <p>
1.65 bentley 133: <li id="accept">
1.61 deraadt 134: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
135: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
137: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.76 tb 138: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 139: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
140: <p>
1.65 bentley 141: <li id="maxqueue">
1.61 deraadt 142: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
143: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 144: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.76 tb 145: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 146: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
147: <p>
1.65 bentley 148: <li id="uio">
1.61 deraadt 149: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
150: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 151: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
152: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.76 tb 153: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 154: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
155: <p>
1.65 bentley 156: <li id="rst">
1.61 deraadt 157: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
158: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 159: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.76 tb 160: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <p>
1.65 bentley 163: <li id="kvm_mkdb">
1.61 deraadt 164: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
165: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 166: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
1.55 deraadt 167: memory".
1.76 tb 168: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 169: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
170: <p>
1.65 bentley 171: <li id="nfs3_solaris7">
1.61 deraadt 172: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
173: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 174: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 175: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 176: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.76 tb 177: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 178: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
179: <p>
1.65 bentley 180: <li id="nfs3">
1.61 deraadt 181: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
182: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 183: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
184: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
185: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
186: partition sizes.
1.76 tb 187: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 188: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
189: <p>
1.65 bentley 190: <li id="termcap">
1.61 deraadt 191: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
192: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 193: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
194: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.76 tb 195: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 196: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
197: <br>
198: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.76 tb 199: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 200: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
201: <p>
1.65 bentley 202: <li id="terminfo">
1.61 deraadt 203: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
204: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 205: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
206: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.76 tb 207: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 208: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
209: <br>
210: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
211: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
212: alpha and mips, use the
1.76 tb 213: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 214: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.76 tb 215: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 216: big endian</a> version.
217: <p>
1.65 bentley 218: <li id="userdir">
1.61 deraadt 219: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
220: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 221: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.76 tb 222: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 223: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
224: <p>
1.65 bentley 225: <li id="bootpd">
1.61 deraadt 226: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
227: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 228: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
229: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.76 tb 230: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.58 deraadt 231: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
232: This is the second version of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 233: <p>
1.65 bentley 234: <li id="tcpfix">
1.61 deraadt 235: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
236: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 237: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.76 tb 238: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 239: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
240: <p>
1.65 bentley 241: <li id="tss">
1.27 henning 242: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 243: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
244: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.76 tb 245: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.58 deraadt 246: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 247: <p>
1.65 bentley 248: <li id="bootargv">
1.27 henning 249: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 250: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
251: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 252: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 253: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
254: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
255: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
256: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.76 tb 257: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.58 deraadt 258: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 259: <p>
1.65 bentley 260: <li id="trctrap">
1.27 henning 261: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 262: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
263: crash.
1.76 tb 264: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.58 deraadt 265: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 266: <p>
1.65 bentley 267: <li id="installboot">
1.27 henning 268: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 269: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 270: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.76 tb 271: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.58 deraadt 272: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 273: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
274: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
275: <p>
1.65 bentley 276: <li id="hme">
1.27 henning 277: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 278: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 279: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
280: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.76 tb 281: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 282: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
283: <p>
1.65 bentley 284: <li id="le">
1.27 henning 285: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 286: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
1.55 deraadt 287: sbus le(4) card.
1.76 tb 288: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 289: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
290: <p>
1.65 bentley 291: <li id="hp300X">
1.27 henning 292: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 293: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
294: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
295: <p>
1.74 deraadt 296:
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1.56 deraadt 298:
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