SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999
The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
enabled by default).
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999
Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
BUGTRAQ as if it is.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
RELIABILITY FIX
PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
of time.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
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i386
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Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999
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Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999
This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
just a workaround.
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A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.
INSTALL PROBLEM
The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
FTP install directories. See
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ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils