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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>,
1.27 david 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 39: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 ! deraadt 40: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
! 41: <a href="errata.html">3.7</a>.
1.18 deraadt 42: <br>
1.1 deraadt 43: <hr>
44:
1.21 naddy 45: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 46: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
47: This file is updated once a day.
48:
1.7 ericj 49: <p>
1.20 deraadt 50: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 51: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
52:
1.1 deraadt 53: <hr>
1.24 henning 54: <a name="all"></a>
55: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 56: <ul>
1.24 henning 57: <li><a name="cron"></a>
58: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 59: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
60: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 61: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 62: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
63: <p>
1.24 henning 64: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
65: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 66: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
67: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
68: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 69: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 70: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
71: <p>
1.24 henning 72: <li><a name="profil"></a>
73: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 74: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 75: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 76: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
77: <p>
1.24 henning 78: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
79: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 80: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
81: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
82: <a
1.21 naddy 83: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 84: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
85: <p>
1.24 henning 86: <li><a name="rc"></a>
87: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 88: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
89: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 90: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 91: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
92: <p>
1.24 henning 93: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
94: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 95: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
96: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 97: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
99: <p>
1.24 henning 100: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
101: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 102: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
103: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
104: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
105: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 106: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
1.24 henning 109: <li><a name="fts"></a>
110: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 111: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
112: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 113: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: <p>
1.24 henning 116: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
117: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 118: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
119: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 120: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
122: <p>
1.24 henning 123: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
124: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 125: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
126: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 127: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 128: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
129: <p>
1.24 henning 130: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
131: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 132: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
133: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 134: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
1.24 henning 137: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
138: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 139: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 140: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 141: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
142: of time.
1.21 naddy 143: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: </ul>
146: <p>
1.24 henning 147: <a name="i386"></a>
148: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 149: <ul>
1.24 henning 150: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
151: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 152: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
153: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
154: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 155: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
157: <p>
1.24 henning 158: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
159: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 160: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
161: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 162: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 163: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
164: <p>
1.1 deraadt 165: </ul>
1.24 henning 166: <a name="mac68k"></a>
167: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 168: <ul>
1.24 henning 169: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
170: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 171: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
172: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
173: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 174: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 175: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
176: <p>
177: </ul>
178: <p>
1.24 henning 179: <a name="sparc"></a>
180: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 181: <ul>
182: <li>No problems identified yet.
183: </ul>
184: <p>
1.24 henning 185: <a name="amiga"></a>
186: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 187: <ul>
188: <li>No problems identified yet.
189: </ul>
190: <p>
1.24 henning 191: <a name="pmax"></a>
192: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 193: <ul>
194: <li>No problems identified yet.
195: </ul>
196: <p>
1.24 henning 197: <a name="arc"></a>
198: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 199: <ul>
200: <li>No problems identified yet.
201: </ul>
202: <p>
1.24 henning 203: <a name="alpha"></a>
204: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 205: <ul>
206: <li>No problems identified yet.
207: </ul>
208: <p>
1.24 henning 209: <a name="hp300"></a>
210: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 211: <ul>
212: <li>No problems identified yet.
213: </ul>
214: <p>
1.24 henning 215: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
216: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 217: <ul>
218: <li>No problems identified yet.
219: </ul>
220: <p>
1.24 henning 221: <a name="powerpc"></a>
222: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 223: <ul>
1.24 henning 224: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
225: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 226: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
227: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 228: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 229: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
230: <p>
231: </ul>
232:
233: <br>
234:
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>,
1.27 david 251: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 252: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 ! deraadt 253: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
! 254: <a href="errata.html">3.7</a>.
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