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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>,
1.22 deraadt 35: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 ! david 36: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
! 37: <a href="errata.html">3.4</a>.
1.18 deraadt 38: <br>
1.1 deraadt 39: <hr>
40:
1.21 naddy 41: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 42: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
43: This file is updated once a day.
44:
1.7 ericj 45: <p>
1.20 deraadt 46: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 47: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
48:
1.1 deraadt 49: <hr>
1.9 jufi 50: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 51: <dl>
52: <a name=all></a>
1.21 naddy 53: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 54: <ul>
55: <a name=cron></a>
1.21 naddy 56: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 57: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
58: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 59: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 60: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
61: <p>
62: <a name=miscfs></a>
1.21 naddy 63: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 64: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
65: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
66: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 67: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 68: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
69: <p>
70: <a name=profil></a>
1.21 naddy 71: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 72: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 73: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 74: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
75: <p>
76: <a name=ipsec_in_use></a>
1.21 naddy 77: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 78: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
79: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
80: <a
1.21 naddy 81: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 82: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
83: <p>
84: <a name=rc></a>
1.21 naddy 85: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 86: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
87: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 88: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
91: <a name=chflags></a>
1.21 naddy 92: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
94: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 95: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 96: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
97: <p>
98: <a name=nroff></a>
1.21 naddy 99: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 100: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
101: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
102: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
103: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 104: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
106: <p>
107: <a name=fts></a>
1.21 naddy 108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 109: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
110: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 111: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 112: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
113: <p>
114: <a name=tcpsack></a>
1.21 naddy 115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 116: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
117: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 118: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <p>
121: <a name=ipsec1></a>
1.21 naddy 122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
124: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 125: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
128: <a name=bmap></a>
1.21 naddy 129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 130: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
131: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 132: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 133: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
134: <p>
135: <a name=pfkey></a>
1.21 naddy 136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 137: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 138: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 139: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
140: of time.
1.21 naddy 141: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
143: </ul>
144: <p>
145: <a name=i386></a>
1.21 naddy 146: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 147: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 148: <a name=y2k></a>
1.21 naddy 149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 150: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
151: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
152: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 153: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 154: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
155: <p>
1.2 deraadt 156: <a name=brooktree></a>
1.21 naddy 157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 158: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
159: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 160: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <p>
1.1 deraadt 163: </ul>
164: <a name=mac68k></a>
1.21 naddy 165: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 166: <ul>
167: <a name=macutils></a>
1.21 naddy 168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 169: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
170: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
171: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 172: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 173: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
174: <p>
175: </ul>
176: <p>
177: <a name=sparc></a>
1.21 naddy 178: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 179: <ul>
180: <li>No problems identified yet.
181: </ul>
182: <p>
183: <a name=amiga></a>
1.21 naddy 184: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 185: <ul>
186: <li>No problems identified yet.
187: </ul>
188: <p>
189: <a name=pmax></a>
1.21 naddy 190: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 191: <ul>
192: <li>No problems identified yet.
193: </ul>
194: <p>
195: <a name=arc></a>
1.21 naddy 196: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 197: <ul>
198: <li>No problems identified yet.
199: </ul>
200: <p>
201: <a name=alpha></a>
1.21 naddy 202: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 203: <ul>
204: <li>No problems identified yet.
205: </ul>
206: <p>
207: <a name=hp300></a>
1.21 naddy 208: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 209: <ul>
210: <li>No problems identified yet.
211: </ul>
212: <p>
213: <a name=mvme68k></a>
1.21 naddy 214: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 215: <ul>
216: <li>No problems identified yet.
217: </ul>
218: <p>
219: <a name=powerpc></a>
1.21 naddy 220: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 221: <ul>
222: <a name=powerpc_trap></a>
1.21 naddy 223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 224: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
225: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 226: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 227: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
228: <p>
229: </ul>
230:
231: </dl>
1.9 jufi 232: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 233: <br>
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235: <hr>
1.6 jason 236: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 237: <br>
1.19 deraadt 238: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 239: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
240: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
241: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
242: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
243: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
244: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
245: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
246: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
247: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
248: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 249: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 ! david 250: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
! 251: <a href="errata.html">3.4</a>.
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