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1.1 deraadt 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>
1.19 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 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>
1.1 deraadt 37: <hr>
38:
1.21 ! naddy 39: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 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>
1.20 deraadt 44: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 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>
1.21 ! naddy 51: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 52: <ul>
53: <a name=cron></a>
1.21 ! naddy 54: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 55: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
56: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 ! naddy 57: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 58: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
59: <p>
60: <a name=miscfs></a>
1.21 ! naddy 61: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 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).
1.21 ! naddy 65: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 66: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
67: <p>
68: <a name=profil></a>
1.21 ! naddy 69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 70: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 ! naddy 71: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 72: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
73: <p>
74: <a name=ipsec_in_use></a>
1.21 ! naddy 75: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 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
1.21 ! naddy 79: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 80: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
81: <p>
82: <a name=rc></a>
1.21 ! naddy 83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 84: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
85: to use -execdir.
1.21 ! naddy 86: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 87: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
88: <p>
89: <a name=chflags></a>
1.21 ! naddy 90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 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.
1.21 ! naddy 93: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
96: <a name=nroff></a>
1.21 ! naddy 97: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 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.
1.21 ! naddy 102: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
105: <a name=fts></a>
1.21 ! naddy 106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
108: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 ! naddy 109: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
112: <a name=tcpsack></a>
1.21 ! naddy 113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
115: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 ! naddy 116: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 117: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
118: <p>
119: <a name=ipsec1></a>
1.21 ! naddy 120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 121: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
122: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 ! naddy 123: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
126: <a name=bmap></a>
1.21 ! naddy 127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 128: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
129: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 ! naddy 130: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
133: <a name=pfkey></a>
1.21 ! naddy 134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 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.
1.21 ! naddy 139: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 140: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
141: </ul>
142: <p>
143: <a name=i386></a>
1.21 ! naddy 144: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 145: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 146: <a name=y2k></a>
1.21 ! naddy 147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 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.
1.21 ! naddy 151: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 152: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
153: <p>
1.2 deraadt 154: <a name=brooktree></a>
1.21 ! naddy 155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 156: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
157: the kernel crashed.
1.21 ! naddy 158: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 159: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
160: <p>
1.1 deraadt 161: </ul>
162: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.21 ! naddy 163: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 164: <ul>
165: <a name=macutils></a>
1.21 ! naddy 166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 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
1.21 ! naddy 170: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 171: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
172: <p>
173: </ul>
174: <p>
175: <a name=sparc></a>
1.21 ! naddy 176: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 177: <ul>
178: <li>No problems identified yet.
179: </ul>
180: <p>
181: <a name=amiga></a>
1.21 ! naddy 182: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 183: <ul>
184: <li>No problems identified yet.
185: </ul>
186: <p>
187: <a name=pmax></a>
1.21 ! naddy 188: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 189: <ul>
190: <li>No problems identified yet.
191: </ul>
192: <p>
193: <a name=arc></a>
1.21 ! naddy 194: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 195: <ul>
196: <li>No problems identified yet.
197: </ul>
198: <p>
199: <a name=alpha></a>
1.21 ! naddy 200: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 201: <ul>
202: <li>No problems identified yet.
203: </ul>
204: <p>
205: <a name=hp300></a>
1.21 ! naddy 206: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 207: <ul>
208: <li>No problems identified yet.
209: </ul>
210: <p>
211: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.21 ! naddy 212: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 213: <ul>
214: <li>No problems identified yet.
215: </ul>
216: <p>
217: <a name=powerpc></a>
1.21 ! naddy 218: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 219: <ul>
220: <a name=powerpc_trap></a>
1.21 ! naddy 221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 222: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
223: unreliability.
1.21 ! naddy 224: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 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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233: <hr>
1.6 jason 234: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 235: <br>
1.19 deraadt 236: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 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>.
248: <br>
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