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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>,
1.42 deraadt 43: <br>
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>,
1.81 deraadt 70: <a href="errata63.html">6.3</a>,
1.82 ! deraadt 71: <a href="errata64.html">6.4</a>,
! 72: <a href="errata65.html">6.5</a>.
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1.9 ericj 75: <p>
1.77 tj 76: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
77: Each patch contains usage instructions.
78: All the following patches are also available in one
79: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
80: for convenience.
1.58 deraadt 81:
82: <p>
1.77 tj 83: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.78 tj 84: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.9 ericj 85:
1.1 deraadt 86: <hr>
1.58 deraadt 87:
1.11 jufi 88: <ul>
1.65 bentley 89: <li id="bmap">
1.61 deraadt 90: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
91: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.3 millert 92: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
93: from an ext2fs partition.
1.76 tb 94: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bmap.patch">
1.3 millert 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.65 bentley 97: <li id="lnpanic">
1.61 deraadt 98: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
99: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 deraadt 100: A local user can crash the system because of a bug in the vfs layer.
1.76 tb 101: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/lnpanic.patch">
1.2 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: <p>
1.65 bentley 104: <li id="poll">
1.61 deraadt 105: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
106: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: A machine crash is possible when playing with poll(2).
1.76 tb 108: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 109: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
110: <p>
1.65 bentley 111: <li id="nlink">
1.61 deraadt 112: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
113: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: A machine crash is possible when playing with link(2) on FFS.
1.76 tb 115: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nlink.patch">
1.58 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: This is version four of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 118: <p>
1.65 bentley 119: <li id="ping">
1.61 deraadt 120: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
121: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 122: A buffer overflow existed in ping(8), which may have a security issue.
1.76 tb 123: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ping.patch">
1.1 deraadt 124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
1.65 bentley 126: <li id="ipqrace">
1.61 deraadt 127: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
128: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: A race condition in IP ipq handling could permit a remote crash.
1.76 tb 130: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/ipqrace.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 naddy 132: It must be installed after <a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">the maxqueue patch</a>.
133: and <a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">the tcp decoding patch</a>.
1.1 deraadt 134: <p>
1.65 bentley 135: <li id="accept">
1.61 deraadt 136: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
137: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 138: A race condition existed between accept(2) and select(2) which could
139: permit an attacker to hang sockets from remote.
1.76 tb 140: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/accept.patch">
1.1 deraadt 141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
142: <p>
1.65 bentley 143: <li id="maxqueue">
1.61 deraadt 144: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
145: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 146: IP fragment assembly can bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1.76 tb 147: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/maxqueue.patch">
1.1 deraadt 148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: <p>
1.65 bentley 150: <li id="uio">
1.61 deraadt 151: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
152: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 153: The readv(2) and writev(2) system calls would not accept a <em>struct iovec</em>
154: with an <strong>iov_len</strong> of 0. This causes a db test in perl to fail.
1.76 tb 155: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/uio.patch">
1.1 deraadt 156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
157: <p>
1.65 bentley 158: <li id="rst">
1.61 deraadt 159: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
160: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 161: TCP/IP RST handling was too sloppy.
1.76 tb 162: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/rst.patch">
1.1 deraadt 163: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
164: <p>
1.65 bentley 165: <li id="kvm_mkdb">
1.61 deraadt 166: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
167: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 168: During bootup, kvm_mkdb may exit with the error "kvm_mkdb: cannot allocate
1.55 deraadt 169: memory".
1.76 tb 170: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/kvm_mkdb.patch">
1.1 deraadt 171: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
172: <p>
1.65 bentley 173: <li id="nfs3_solaris7">
1.61 deraadt 174: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
175: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 176: A problem with writing to NFS version 3 mounted filesystems from Solaris 7
1.31 david 177: hosts exists. Attempts to create files will result in an error such as
1.1 deraadt 178: "Inappropriate file type or format".
1.76 tb 179: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3_solaris7.patch">
1.1 deraadt 180: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
181: <p>
1.65 bentley 182: <li id="nfs3">
1.61 deraadt 183: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
184: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 185: A problem with NFS version 3 mounts on big endian machines (m68k, sparc
186: and powerpc) exists when mounting filesystems larger than 2gig. You
187: can see evidence of the bug by running df(1) and checking for negative
188: partition sizes.
1.76 tb 189: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/nfs3.patch">
1.1 deraadt 190: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
191: <p>
1.65 bentley 192: <li id="termcap">
1.61 deraadt 193: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
194: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 195: A security problem exists in the curses and ocurses libraries that affect
196: setuid programs linked with -lcurses or -locurses.
1.76 tb 197: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/termcap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 198: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
199: <br>
200: Precompiled versions of libcurses and libocurses exist for the
1.76 tb 201: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/curses.tar.gz">i386</a>
1.1 deraadt 202: platform. Unpack it in /usr/lib.
203: <p>
1.65 bentley 204: <li id="terminfo">
1.61 deraadt 205: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
206: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 207: A workaround for an xterm problem that causes <strong>vi</strong> to not
208: restore the correct cursor position on exit.
1.76 tb 209: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.src.patch">
1.1 deraadt 210: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
211: <br>
212: Alternately, you can also download a pre-compiled terminfo file to be
213: installed as <strong>/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db</strong>. For i386,
214: alpha and mips, use the
1.76 tb 215: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-LE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 216: little endian</a> version. For sparc, m68k and powerpc, use the
1.76 tb 217: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/terminfo.db-BE.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 218: big endian</a> version.
219: <p>
1.65 bentley 220: <li id="userdir">
1.61 deraadt 221: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font>
222: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 223: <strong>userdir</strong> support was accidentally left out of httpd(8).
1.76 tb 224: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/userdir.patch">
1.1 deraadt 225: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
226: <p>
1.65 bentley 227: <li id="bootpd">
1.61 deraadt 228: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
229: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 230: A remotely exploitable problem exists in bootpd(8). bootpd is disabled
231: by default, but some people may actually be using it.
1.76 tb 232: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/bootpd.patch">
1.58 deraadt 233: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
234: This is the second version of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 235: <p>
1.65 bentley 236: <li id="tcpfix">
1.61 deraadt 237: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font>
238: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 239: A remote machine lockup problem exists in the TCP decoding code.
1.76 tb 240: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/common/tcpfix.patch">
1.1 deraadt 241: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
242: <p>
1.65 bentley 243: <li id="tss">
1.27 henning 244: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 245: This is another fix for a kernel crash caused by the
246: <strong>crashme</strong> program.
1.76 tb 247: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/tss.patch">
1.58 deraadt 248: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 249: <p>
1.65 bentley 250: <li id="bootargv">
1.27 henning 251: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 252: The kernel was using a fixed and hard-coded location for the arguments
253: vector passed from the <strong>/boot</strong> loader. This prevented
1.11 jufi 254: <strong>/boot</strong> from placing the boot arguments vector at any
1.1 deraadt 255: other location, causing a kernel crash early in the autoconfiguration
256: stage. In 2.5, the bootblocks will be modified to use a new location.
257: Hence, if you wish old kernels to boot on a new bootblock, those
258: kernels will only work if they were linked with this patch.
1.76 tb 259: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/bootargv.patch">
1.58 deraadt 260: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 261: <p>
1.65 bentley 262: <li id="trctrap">
1.27 henning 263: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 264: i386 trace-trap handling when DDB was configured could cause a system
265: crash.
1.76 tb 266: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/trctrap.patch">
1.58 deraadt 267: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 268: <p>
1.65 bentley 269: <li id="installboot">
1.27 henning 270: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.13 pvalchev 271: i386 installboot had a sign extension bug which prevented proper bootblock
1.1 deraadt 272: initialization when the root filesystem was placed beyond 4GB.
1.76 tb 273: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/i386/installboot.patch">
1.58 deraadt 274: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 275: Unfortunately, updated 2.4 install floppies are not available. Just ensure
276: that your root filesystem is below 4GB, for now.
277: <p>
1.65 bentley 278: <li id="hme">
1.27 henning 279: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.23 deraadt 280: The sparc hme(4) and be(4) drivers work poorly on some types of SS-20
1.1 deraadt 281: machines. This is because those machines lie, saying they support 64-bit DMA
282: bursting. No sun4m machines support that.
1.76 tb 283: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/hme.patch">
1.1 deraadt 284: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
285: <p>
1.65 bentley 286: <li id="le">
1.27 henning 287: <font color="#009000"><strong>DRIVER FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 288: The sparc le(4) driver does media changes incorrectly on one type of
1.55 deraadt 289: sbus le(4) card.
1.76 tb 290: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.4/sparc/le.patch">
1.1 deraadt 291: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
292: <p>
1.65 bentley 293: <li id="hp300X">
1.27 henning 294: <font color="#009000"><strong>FUNCTIONALITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 295: The Xhp as shipped does not have the execute permissions set. The fix is
296: 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin/Xhp' if you have installed X.
297: <p>
1.74 deraadt 298:
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