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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>,
1.32 deraadt 43: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 ! deraadt 44: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
! 45: <a href="errata.html">4.1</a>.
1.18 deraadt 46: <br>
1.1 deraadt 47: <hr>
48:
1.21 naddy 49: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 50: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
51: This file is updated once a day.
52:
1.7 ericj 53: <p>
1.20 deraadt 54: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 55: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
56:
1.1 deraadt 57: <hr>
1.24 henning 58: <a name="all"></a>
59: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 60: <ul>
1.24 henning 61: <li><a name="cron"></a>
62: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 63: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
64: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 65: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 66: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
67: <p>
1.24 henning 68: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
69: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 70: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
71: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
72: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 73: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 74: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
75: <p>
1.24 henning 76: <li><a name="profil"></a>
77: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 78: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 79: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 80: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
81: <p>
1.24 henning 82: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
83: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 84: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
85: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
86: <a
1.21 naddy 87: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 88: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
89: <p>
1.24 henning 90: <li><a name="rc"></a>
91: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 92: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
93: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 94: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.24 henning 97: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
100: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 101: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: <p>
1.24 henning 104: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
105: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
107: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
108: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
109: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 110: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 111: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
112: <p>
1.24 henning 113: <li><a name="fts"></a>
114: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 115: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
116: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 117: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119: <p>
1.24 henning 120: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
121: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 122: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
123: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 124: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
126: <p>
1.24 henning 127: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
128: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
130: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 131: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 132: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
133: <p>
1.24 henning 134: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
135: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
137: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 138: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 139: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
140: <p>
1.24 henning 141: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
142: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 144: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 145: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
146: of time.
1.21 naddy 147: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: </ul>
150: <p>
1.24 henning 151: <a name="i386"></a>
152: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 153: <ul>
1.24 henning 154: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
155: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 156: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
157: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
158: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 159: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 160: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
161: <p>
1.24 henning 162: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
163: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 164: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
165: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 166: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
168: <p>
1.1 deraadt 169: </ul>
1.24 henning 170: <a name="mac68k"></a>
171: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 172: <ul>
1.24 henning 173: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
174: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 175: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
176: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
177: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 178: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 179: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
180: <p>
181: </ul>
182: <p>
1.24 henning 183: <a name="sparc"></a>
184: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 185: <ul>
186: <li>No problems identified yet.
187: </ul>
188: <p>
1.24 henning 189: <a name="amiga"></a>
190: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 191: <ul>
192: <li>No problems identified yet.
193: </ul>
194: <p>
1.24 henning 195: <a name="pmax"></a>
196: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 197: <ul>
198: <li>No problems identified yet.
199: </ul>
200: <p>
1.24 henning 201: <a name="arc"></a>
202: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 203: <ul>
204: <li>No problems identified yet.
205: </ul>
206: <p>
1.24 henning 207: <a name="alpha"></a>
208: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 209: <ul>
210: <li>No problems identified yet.
211: </ul>
212: <p>
1.24 henning 213: <a name="hp300"></a>
214: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 215: <ul>
216: <li>No problems identified yet.
217: </ul>
218: <p>
1.24 henning 219: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
220: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 221: <ul>
222: <li>No problems identified yet.
223: </ul>
224: <p>
1.24 henning 225: <a name="powerpc"></a>
226: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 227: <ul>
1.24 henning 228: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
229: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 230: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
231: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 232: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 233: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
234: <p>
235: </ul>
236:
237: <br>
238:
239: <hr>
1.6 jason 240: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 241: <br>
1.19 deraadt 242: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 243: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
244: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
245: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
246: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
247: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
248: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
249: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
250: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
251: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
252: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 253: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 254: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 255: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 256: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 257: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.30 deraadt 258: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 259: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 260: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 ! deraadt 261: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
! 262: <a href="errata.html">4.1</a>.
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