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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>
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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>
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! 33: <a href=errata.html>For 3.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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35:
36: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz>
37: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
38: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 40: <p>
41: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
42: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
43:
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1.9 jufi 45: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 46: <dl>
47: <a name=all></a>
48: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
49: <ul>
50: <a name=cron></a>
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
52: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
53: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
54: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch>
55: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
56: <p>
57: <a name=miscfs></a>
58: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
59: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
60: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
61: enabled by default).
62: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch>
63: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
64: <p>
65: <a name=profil></a>
66: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
67: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
68: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch>
69: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
70: <p>
71: <a name=ipsec_in_use></a>
72: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
73: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
74: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
75: <a
76: href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch>
77: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
78: <p>
79: <a name=rc></a>
80: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
81: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
82: to use -execdir.
83: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch>
84: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
85: <p>
86: <a name=chflags></a>
87: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
88: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
89: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
90: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch>
91: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
92: <p>
93: <a name=nroff></a>
94: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
95: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
96: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
97: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
98: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
99: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch>
100: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
101: <p>
102: <a name=fts></a>
103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
104: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
105: with a very large number of entries.
106: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch>
107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
109: <a name=tcpsack></a>
110: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
111: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
112: failure to retransmit correctly.
113: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch>
114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: <p>
116: <a name=ipsec1></a>
117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
118: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
119: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
120: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch>
121: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
122: <p>
123: <a name=bmap></a>
124: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
125: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
126: from an ext2fs partition.
127: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch>
128: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
129: <p>
130: <a name=pfkey></a>
131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
132: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 133: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 134: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
135: of time.
136: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch>
137: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
138: </ul>
139: <p>
140: <a name=i386></a>
141: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 142: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 143: <a name=y2k></a>
144: <li><font color=#009000><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
145: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
146: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
147: just a workaround.
148: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch>
149: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
150: <p>
1.2 deraadt 151: <a name=brooktree></a>
152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
153: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
154: the kernel crashed.
155: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch>
156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
157: <p>
1.1 deraadt 158: </ul>
159: <a name=mac68k></a>
160: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
161: <ul>
162: <a name=macutils></a>
163: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
164: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
165: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
166: FTP install directories. See
167: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils>
168: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
169: <p>
170: </ul>
171: <p>
172: <a name=sparc></a>
173: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
174: <ul>
175: <li>No problems identified yet.
176: </ul>
177: <p>
178: <a name=amiga></a>
179: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
180: <ul>
181: <li>No problems identified yet.
182: </ul>
183: <p>
184: <a name=pmax></a>
185: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
186: <ul>
187: <li>No problems identified yet.
188: </ul>
189: <p>
190: <a name=arc></a>
191: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
192: <ul>
193: <li>No problems identified yet.
194: </ul>
195: <p>
196: <a name=alpha></a>
197: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
198: <ul>
199: <li>No problems identified yet.
200: </ul>
201: <p>
202: <a name=hp300></a>
203: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
204: <ul>
205: <li>No problems identified yet.
206: </ul>
207: <p>
208: <a name=mvme68k></a>
209: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
210: <ul>
211: <li>No problems identified yet.
212: </ul>
213: <p>
214: <a name=powerpc></a>
215: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
216: <ul>
217: <a name=powerpc_trap></a>
218: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
219: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
220: unreliability.
221: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch>
222: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
223: <p>
224: </ul>
225:
226: </dl>
1.9 jufi 227: </ul>
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1.6 jason 231: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.1 deraadt 232: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
233: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
234: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
235: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.4 deraadt 236: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.8 deraadt 237: <a href=errata27.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.10 deraadt 238: <a href=errata28.html>For 2.8 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.13 deraadt 239: <a href=errata29.html>For 2.9 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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