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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>,
1.30 ! deraadt 41: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
! 42: <a href="errata.html">3.8</a>.
1.18 deraadt 43: <br>
1.1 deraadt 44: <hr>
45:
1.21 naddy 46: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 47: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
48: This file is updated once a day.
49:
1.7 ericj 50: <p>
1.20 deraadt 51: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 52: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
53:
1.1 deraadt 54: <hr>
1.24 henning 55: <a name="all"></a>
56: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 57: <ul>
1.24 henning 58: <li><a name="cron"></a>
59: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 60: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
61: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 62: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 63: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
64: <p>
1.24 henning 65: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
66: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 67: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
68: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
69: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 70: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 71: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
72: <p>
1.24 henning 73: <li><a name="profil"></a>
74: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 75: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 76: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 77: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
78: <p>
1.24 henning 79: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
80: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 81: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
82: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
83: <a
1.21 naddy 84: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 85: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
86: <p>
1.24 henning 87: <li><a name="rc"></a>
88: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 89: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
90: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 91: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
93: <p>
1.24 henning 94: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
95: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 96: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
97: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 98: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: <p>
1.24 henning 101: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
102: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 103: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
104: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
105: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
106: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 107: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 108: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109: <p>
1.24 henning 110: <li><a name="fts"></a>
111: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
113: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 114: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 115: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
116: <p>
1.24 henning 117: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
118: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 119: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
120: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 121: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 122: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
123: <p>
1.24 henning 124: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
125: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 126: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
127: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 128: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 129: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
130: <p>
1.24 henning 131: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
132: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 133: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
134: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 135: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 136: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
137: <p>
1.24 henning 138: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
139: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 140: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 141: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 142: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
143: of time.
1.21 naddy 144: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 145: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
146: </ul>
147: <p>
1.24 henning 148: <a name="i386"></a>
149: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 150: <ul>
1.24 henning 151: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
152: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 153: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
154: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
155: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 156: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 157: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
158: <p>
1.24 henning 159: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
160: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 161: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
162: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 163: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 164: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
165: <p>
1.1 deraadt 166: </ul>
1.24 henning 167: <a name="mac68k"></a>
168: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 169: <ul>
1.24 henning 170: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
171: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 172: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
173: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
174: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 175: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 176: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
177: <p>
178: </ul>
179: <p>
1.24 henning 180: <a name="sparc"></a>
181: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 182: <ul>
183: <li>No problems identified yet.
184: </ul>
185: <p>
1.24 henning 186: <a name="amiga"></a>
187: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 188: <ul>
189: <li>No problems identified yet.
190: </ul>
191: <p>
1.24 henning 192: <a name="pmax"></a>
193: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 194: <ul>
195: <li>No problems identified yet.
196: </ul>
197: <p>
1.24 henning 198: <a name="arc"></a>
199: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 200: <ul>
201: <li>No problems identified yet.
202: </ul>
203: <p>
1.24 henning 204: <a name="alpha"></a>
205: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 206: <ul>
207: <li>No problems identified yet.
208: </ul>
209: <p>
1.24 henning 210: <a name="hp300"></a>
211: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 212: <ul>
213: <li>No problems identified yet.
214: </ul>
215: <p>
1.24 henning 216: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
217: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 218: <ul>
219: <li>No problems identified yet.
220: </ul>
221: <p>
1.24 henning 222: <a name="powerpc"></a>
223: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 224: <ul>
1.24 henning 225: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
226: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 227: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
228: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 229: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 230: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
231: <p>
232: </ul>
233:
234: <br>
235:
236: <hr>
1.6 jason 237: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 238: <br>
1.19 deraadt 239: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 240: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
241: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
242: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
243: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
244: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
245: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
246: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
247: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
248: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
249: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 250: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 251: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 252: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 253: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 254: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.30 ! deraadt 255: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
! 256: <a href="errata.html">3.8</a>.
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