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1.1 deraadt 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.5 release errata & patch list:
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1.6 jason 23: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 24: <br>
1.19 deraadt 25: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 26: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
27: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
28: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
29: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
30: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
31: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
32: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
33: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
34: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
35: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 36: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 37: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
38: <a href="errata.html">3.4</a>.
1.18 deraadt 39: <br>
1.1 deraadt 40: <hr>
41:
1.21 naddy 42: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 43: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
44: This file is updated once a day.
45:
1.7 ericj 46: <p>
1.20 deraadt 47: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 48: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
49:
1.1 deraadt 50: <hr>
1.24 henning 51: <a name="all"></a>
52: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 53: <ul>
1.24 henning 54: <li><a name="cron"></a>
55: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 56: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
57: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 58: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 59: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
60: <p>
1.24 henning 61: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
62: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 63: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
64: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
65: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 66: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 67: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
68: <p>
1.24 henning 69: <li><a name="profil"></a>
70: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 71: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 72: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 73: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
74: <p>
1.24 henning 75: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
76: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 77: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
78: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
79: <a
1.21 naddy 80: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 81: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
82: <p>
1.24 henning 83: <li><a name="rc"></a>
84: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 85: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
86: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 87: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 88: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
89: <p>
1.24 henning 90: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
91: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 92: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
93: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 94: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.24 henning 97: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
100: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
101: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
102: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 103: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 104: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
105: <p>
1.24 henning 106: <li><a name="fts"></a>
107: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 108: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
109: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 110: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 111: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
112: <p>
1.24 henning 113: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
114: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 115: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
116: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 117: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119: <p>
1.24 henning 120: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
121: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 122: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
123: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 124: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
126: <p>
1.24 henning 127: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
128: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
130: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 131: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 132: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
133: <p>
1.24 henning 134: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
135: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 137: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 138: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
139: of time.
1.21 naddy 140: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
142: </ul>
143: <p>
1.24 henning 144: <a name="i386"></a>
145: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 146: <ul>
1.24 henning 147: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
148: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 149: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
150: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
151: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 152: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <p>
1.24 henning 155: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
156: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 157: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
158: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 159: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 160: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
161: <p>
1.1 deraadt 162: </ul>
1.24 henning 163: <a name="mac68k"></a>
164: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 165: <ul>
1.24 henning 166: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
167: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 168: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
169: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
170: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 171: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 172: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
173: <p>
174: </ul>
175: <p>
1.24 henning 176: <a name="sparc"></a>
177: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 178: <ul>
179: <li>No problems identified yet.
180: </ul>
181: <p>
1.24 henning 182: <a name="amiga"></a>
183: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 184: <ul>
185: <li>No problems identified yet.
186: </ul>
187: <p>
1.24 henning 188: <a name="pmax"></a>
189: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 190: <ul>
191: <li>No problems identified yet.
192: </ul>
193: <p>
1.24 henning 194: <a name="arc"></a>
195: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 196: <ul>
197: <li>No problems identified yet.
198: </ul>
199: <p>
1.24 henning 200: <a name="alpha"></a>
201: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 202: <ul>
203: <li>No problems identified yet.
204: </ul>
205: <p>
1.24 henning 206: <a name="hp300"></a>
207: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 208: <ul>
209: <li>No problems identified yet.
210: </ul>
211: <p>
1.24 henning 212: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
213: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 214: <ul>
215: <li>No problems identified yet.
216: </ul>
217: <p>
1.24 henning 218: <a name="powerpc"></a>
219: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 220: <ul>
1.24 henning 221: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
222: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 223: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
224: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 225: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 226: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
227: <p>
228: </ul>
229:
230: <br>
231:
232: <hr>
1.6 jason 233: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 234: <br>
1.19 deraadt 235: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 236: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
237: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
238: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
239: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
240: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
241: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
242: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
243: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
244: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
245: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 246: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 247: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
248: <a href="errata.html">3.4</a>.
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