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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>,
1.31 ! deraadt 42: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
! 43: <a href="errata.html">3.9</a>.
1.18 deraadt 44: <br>
1.1 deraadt 45: <hr>
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1.21 naddy 47: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 48: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
49: This file is updated once a day.
50:
1.7 ericj 51: <p>
1.20 deraadt 52: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 53: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
54:
1.1 deraadt 55: <hr>
1.24 henning 56: <a name="all"></a>
57: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 58: <ul>
1.24 henning 59: <li><a name="cron"></a>
60: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 61: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
62: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 63: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 64: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
65: <p>
1.24 henning 66: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
67: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 68: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
69: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
70: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 71: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 72: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
73: <p>
1.24 henning 74: <li><a name="profil"></a>
75: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 76: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 77: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 78: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
79: <p>
1.24 henning 80: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
81: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 82: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
83: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
84: <a
1.21 naddy 85: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 86: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
87: <p>
1.24 henning 88: <li><a name="rc"></a>
89: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 90: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
91: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 92: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 93: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
94: <p>
1.24 henning 95: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
96: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
98: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 99: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 100: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
101: <p>
1.24 henning 102: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
103: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
105: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
106: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
107: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 108: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 109: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
110: <p>
1.24 henning 111: <li><a name="fts"></a>
112: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
114: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 115: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <p>
1.24 henning 118: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
119: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
121: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 122: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
124: <p>
1.24 henning 125: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
126: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
128: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 129: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
131: <p>
1.24 henning 132: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
133: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 134: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
135: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 136: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 137: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
138: <p>
1.24 henning 139: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
140: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 141: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 142: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 143: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
144: of time.
1.21 naddy 145: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 146: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
147: </ul>
148: <p>
1.24 henning 149: <a name="i386"></a>
150: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 151: <ul>
1.24 henning 152: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
153: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 154: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
155: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
156: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 157: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 158: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
159: <p>
1.24 henning 160: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
161: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 162: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
163: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 164: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 165: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
166: <p>
1.1 deraadt 167: </ul>
1.24 henning 168: <a name="mac68k"></a>
169: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 170: <ul>
1.24 henning 171: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
172: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 173: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
174: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
175: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 176: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 177: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
178: <p>
179: </ul>
180: <p>
1.24 henning 181: <a name="sparc"></a>
182: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 183: <ul>
184: <li>No problems identified yet.
185: </ul>
186: <p>
1.24 henning 187: <a name="amiga"></a>
188: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 189: <ul>
190: <li>No problems identified yet.
191: </ul>
192: <p>
1.24 henning 193: <a name="pmax"></a>
194: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 195: <ul>
196: <li>No problems identified yet.
197: </ul>
198: <p>
1.24 henning 199: <a name="arc"></a>
200: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 201: <ul>
202: <li>No problems identified yet.
203: </ul>
204: <p>
1.24 henning 205: <a name="alpha"></a>
206: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 207: <ul>
208: <li>No problems identified yet.
209: </ul>
210: <p>
1.24 henning 211: <a name="hp300"></a>
212: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 213: <ul>
214: <li>No problems identified yet.
215: </ul>
216: <p>
1.24 henning 217: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
218: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 219: <ul>
220: <li>No problems identified yet.
221: </ul>
222: <p>
1.24 henning 223: <a name="powerpc"></a>
224: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 225: <ul>
1.24 henning 226: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
227: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 228: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
229: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 230: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 231: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
232: <p>
233: </ul>
234:
235: <br>
236:
237: <hr>
1.6 jason 238: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 239: <br>
1.19 deraadt 240: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 241: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
242: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
243: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
244: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
245: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
246: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
247: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
248: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
249: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
250: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 251: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 252: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 253: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 254: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 255: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.30 deraadt 256: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 ! deraadt 257: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
! 258: <a href="errata.html">3.9</a>.
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