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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>
1.18 ! deraadt 23: <br>
! 24: For errata on a certain releases, click below:<br>
! 25: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
! 26: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
! 27: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
! 28: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
! 29: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
! 30: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
! 31: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
! 32: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
! 33: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
! 34: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
! 35: <a href="errata.html">3.2</a>.
! 36: <br>
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39: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz>
40: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
41: This file is updated once a day.
42:
1.7 ericj 43: <p>
44: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
45: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
46:
1.1 deraadt 47: <hr>
1.9 jufi 48: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 49: <dl>
50: <a name=all></a>
51: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
52: <ul>
53: <a name=cron></a>
54: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
55: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
56: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
57: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch>
58: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
59: <p>
60: <a name=miscfs></a>
61: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
62: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
63: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
64: enabled by default).
65: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch>
66: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
67: <p>
68: <a name=profil></a>
69: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
70: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
71: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch>
72: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
73: <p>
74: <a name=ipsec_in_use></a>
75: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
76: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
77: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
78: <a
79: href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch>
80: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
81: <p>
82: <a name=rc></a>
83: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
84: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
85: to use -execdir.
86: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch>
87: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
88: <p>
89: <a name=chflags></a>
90: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
91: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
92: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
93: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch>
94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
96: <a name=nroff></a>
97: <li><font color=#009000><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
98: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
99: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
100: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
101: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
102: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch>
103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
105: <a name=fts></a>
106: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
107: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
108: with a very large number of entries.
109: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch>
110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
112: <a name=tcpsack></a>
113: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
114: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
115: failure to retransmit correctly.
116: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch>
117: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
118: <p>
119: <a name=ipsec1></a>
120: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
121: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
122: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
123: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch>
124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
126: <a name=bmap></a>
127: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
128: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
129: from an ext2fs partition.
130: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch>
131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
133: <a name=pfkey></a>
134: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
135: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 136: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 137: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
138: of time.
139: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch>
140: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
141: </ul>
142: <p>
143: <a name=i386></a>
144: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 145: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 146: <a name=y2k></a>
147: <li><font color=#009000><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
148: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
149: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
150: just a workaround.
151: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch>
152: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
153: <p>
1.2 deraadt 154: <a name=brooktree></a>
155: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
156: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
157: the kernel crashed.
158: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch>
159: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
160: <p>
1.1 deraadt 161: </ul>
162: <a name=mac68k></a>
163: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
164: <ul>
165: <a name=macutils></a>
166: <li><font color=#009000><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
167: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
168: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
169: FTP install directories. See
170: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils>
171: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
172: <p>
173: </ul>
174: <p>
175: <a name=sparc></a>
176: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
177: <ul>
178: <li>No problems identified yet.
179: </ul>
180: <p>
181: <a name=amiga></a>
182: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
183: <ul>
184: <li>No problems identified yet.
185: </ul>
186: <p>
187: <a name=pmax></a>
188: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>pmax</font></h3>
189: <ul>
190: <li>No problems identified yet.
191: </ul>
192: <p>
193: <a name=arc></a>
194: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>arc</font></h3>
195: <ul>
196: <li>No problems identified yet.
197: </ul>
198: <p>
199: <a name=alpha></a>
200: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
201: <ul>
202: <li>No problems identified yet.
203: </ul>
204: <p>
205: <a name=hp300></a>
206: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
207: <ul>
208: <li>No problems identified yet.
209: </ul>
210: <p>
211: <a name=mvme68k></a>
212: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
213: <ul>
214: <li>No problems identified yet.
215: </ul>
216: <p>
217: <a name=powerpc></a>
218: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>powerpc</font></h3>
219: <ul>
220: <a name=powerpc_trap></a>
221: <li><font color=#009000><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
222: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
223: unreliability.
224: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch>
225: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
226: <p>
227: </ul>
228:
229: </dl>
1.9 jufi 230: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 231: <br>
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1.6 jason 234: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 ! deraadt 235: <br>
! 236: For errata on a certain releases, click below:<br>
! 237: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
! 238: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
! 239: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
! 240: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
! 241: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
! 242: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
! 243: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
! 244: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
! 245: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
! 246: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
! 247: <a href="errata.html">3.2</a>.
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