Annotation of www/errata25.html, Revision 1.27
1.21 naddy 1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
1.1 deraadt 2: <html>
3: <head>
1.4 deraadt 4: <title>OpenBSD 2.5 errata</title>
1.21 naddy 5: <link rev=made href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">
1.1 deraadt 6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
7: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD CD errata page">
8: <meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,cd,errata">
9: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.12 jufi 10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1997-2001 by OpenBSD.">
1.24 henning 11: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
1.1 deraadt 12: </head>
13:
1.25 david 14: <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#23238E">
1.1 deraadt 15:
1.16 jsyn 16: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
1.21 naddy 17: <h2><font color="#0000e0">
1.1 deraadt 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.5 release errata & patch list:
19:
20: </font></h2>
21:
22: <hr>
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>,
1.27 ! david 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.26 deraadt 39: <a href="errata.html">3.5</a>.
1.18 deraadt 40: <br>
1.1 deraadt 41: <hr>
42:
1.21 naddy 43: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 44: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
45: This file is updated once a day.
46:
1.7 ericj 47: <p>
1.20 deraadt 48: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 49: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
50:
1.1 deraadt 51: <hr>
1.24 henning 52: <a name="all"></a>
53: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 54: <ul>
1.24 henning 55: <li><a name="cron"></a>
56: <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>
1.24 henning 62: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
63: <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>
1.24 henning 70: <li><a name="profil"></a>
71: <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>
1.24 henning 76: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
77: <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>
1.24 henning 84: <li><a name="rc"></a>
85: <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>
1.24 henning 91: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
92: <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>
1.24 henning 98: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
99: <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>
1.24 henning 107: <li><a name="fts"></a>
108: <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>
1.24 henning 114: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
115: <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>
1.24 henning 121: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
122: <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>
1.24 henning 128: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
129: <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>
1.24 henning 135: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
136: <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>
1.24 henning 145: <a name="i386"></a>
146: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 147: <ul>
1.24 henning 148: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
149: <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>
1.24 henning 156: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
157: <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>
1.24 henning 164: <a name="mac68k"></a>
165: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 166: <ul>
1.24 henning 167: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
168: <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>
1.24 henning 177: <a name="sparc"></a>
178: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 179: <ul>
180: <li>No problems identified yet.
181: </ul>
182: <p>
1.24 henning 183: <a name="amiga"></a>
184: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 185: <ul>
186: <li>No problems identified yet.
187: </ul>
188: <p>
1.24 henning 189: <a name="pmax"></a>
190: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 191: <ul>
192: <li>No problems identified yet.
193: </ul>
194: <p>
1.24 henning 195: <a name="arc"></a>
196: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 197: <ul>
198: <li>No problems identified yet.
199: </ul>
200: <p>
1.24 henning 201: <a name="alpha"></a>
202: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 203: <ul>
204: <li>No problems identified yet.
205: </ul>
206: <p>
1.24 henning 207: <a name="hp300"></a>
208: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 209: <ul>
210: <li>No problems identified yet.
211: </ul>
212: <p>
1.24 henning 213: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
214: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 215: <ul>
216: <li>No problems identified yet.
217: </ul>
218: <p>
1.24 henning 219: <a name="powerpc"></a>
220: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 221: <ul>
1.24 henning 222: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
223: <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: <br>
232:
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>,
1.22 deraadt 247: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 248: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 ! david 249: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.26 deraadt 250: <a href="errata.html">3.5</a>.
1.18 deraadt 251: <br>
252:
1.1 deraadt 253: <hr>
254: <a href=index.html><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.21 naddy 255: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.27 ! david 256: <br><small>$OpenBSD: errata25.html,v 1.26 2004/03/29 18:09:50 deraadt Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 257:
258: </body>
259: </html>
![[BACK]](/icons/back.gif){kind=icon}
Return to errata25.html CVS log ![[TXT]](/icons/text.gif){kind=icon}
![[DIR]](/icons/dir.gif){kind=icon}
Up to [local] / www