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17: This is the OpenBSD 2.5 release errata & patch list:
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1.6 jason 22: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.1 deraadt 23: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
24: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
25: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
26: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 27: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.8 deraadt 28: <a href=errata27.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 deraadt 29: <a href=errata28.html>For 2.8 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.13 deraadt 30: <a href=errata29.html>For 2.9 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.14 deraadt 31: <a href=errata30.html>For 3.0 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.15 ! jufi 32: <a href=errata.html>For 3.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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34:
35: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz>
36: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
37: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 39: <p>
40: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
41: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 43: <hr>
1.9 jufi 44: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 45: <dl>
46: <a name=all></a>
47: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
48: <ul>
49: <a name=cron></a>
50: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
51: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
52: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
53: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch>
54: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
55: <p>
56: <a name=miscfs></a>
57: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
58: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
59: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
60: enabled by default).
61: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch>
62: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
63: <p>
64: <a name=profil></a>
65: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
66: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
67: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch>
68: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
69: <p>
70: <a name=ipsec_in_use></a>
71: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
72: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
73: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
74: <a
75: href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch>
76: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
77: <p>
78: <a name=rc></a>
79: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
80: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
81: to use -execdir.
82: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch>
83: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
84: <p>
85: <a name=chflags></a>
86: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
87: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
88: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
89: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch>
90: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
91: <p>
92: <a name=nroff></a>
93: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
94: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
95: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
96: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
97: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
98: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch>
99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: <p>
101: <a name=fts></a>
102: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
103: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
104: with a very large number of entries.
105: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch>
106: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
107: <p>
108: <a name=tcpsack></a>
109: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
110: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
111: failure to retransmit correctly.
112: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch>
113: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
114: <p>
115: <a name=ipsec1></a>
116: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
117: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
118: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
119: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch>
120: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
121: <p>
122: <a name=bmap></a>
123: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
124: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
125: from an ext2fs partition.
126: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch>
127: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
128: <p>
129: <a name=pfkey></a>
130: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
131: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 132: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 133: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
134: of time.
135: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch>
136: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
137: </ul>
138: <p>
139: <a name=i386></a>
140: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 141: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 142: <a name=y2k></a>
143: <li><font color=#009000><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
144: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
145: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
146: just a workaround.
147: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch>
148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: <p>
1.2 deraadt 150: <a name=brooktree></a>
151: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
152: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
153: the kernel crashed.
154: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch>
155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
156: <p>
1.1 deraadt 157: </ul>
158: <a name=mac68k></a>
159: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
160: <ul>
161: <a name=macutils></a>
162: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
163: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
164: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
165: FTP install directories. See
166: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils>
167: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
168: <p>
169: </ul>
170: <p>
171: <a name=sparc></a>
172: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
173: <ul>
174: <li>No problems identified yet.
175: </ul>
176: <p>
177: <a name=amiga></a>
178: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
179: <ul>
180: <li>No problems identified yet.
181: </ul>
182: <p>
183: <a name=pmax></a>
184: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
185: <ul>
186: <li>No problems identified yet.
187: </ul>
188: <p>
189: <a name=arc></a>
190: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
191: <ul>
192: <li>No problems identified yet.
193: </ul>
194: <p>
195: <a name=alpha></a>
196: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
197: <ul>
198: <li>No problems identified yet.
199: </ul>
200: <p>
201: <a name=hp300></a>
202: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
203: <ul>
204: <li>No problems identified yet.
205: </ul>
206: <p>
207: <a name=mvme68k></a>
208: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
209: <ul>
210: <li>No problems identified yet.
211: </ul>
212: <p>
213: <a name=powerpc></a>
214: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
215: <ul>
216: <a name=powerpc_trap></a>
217: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
218: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
219: unreliability.
220: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch>
221: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
222: <p>
223: </ul>
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225: </dl>
1.9 jufi 226: </ul>
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1.6 jason 230: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.1 deraadt 231: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
232: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
233: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
234: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 235: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.8 deraadt 236: <a href=errata27.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 deraadt 237: <a href=errata28.html>For 2.8 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.13 deraadt 238: <a href=errata29.html>For 2.9 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.14 deraadt 239: <a href=errata30.html>For 3.0 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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