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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>,
1.35 ! merdely 45: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
! 46: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>.
1.18 deraadt 47: <br>
1.1 deraadt 48: <hr>
49:
1.21 naddy 50: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 51: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
52: This file is updated once a day.
53:
1.7 ericj 54: <p>
1.20 deraadt 55: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 56: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
57:
1.1 deraadt 58: <hr>
1.24 henning 59: <a name="all"></a>
60: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 61: <ul>
1.24 henning 62: <li><a name="cron"></a>
63: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 64: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
65: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 66: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 67: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
68: <p>
1.24 henning 69: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
70: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 71: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
72: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
73: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 74: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 75: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
76: <p>
1.24 henning 77: <li><a name="profil"></a>
78: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 79: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 80: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 81: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
82: <p>
1.24 henning 83: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
84: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 85: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
86: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
87: <a
1.21 naddy 88: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
1.24 henning 91: <li><a name="rc"></a>
92: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
94: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 95: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 96: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
97: <p>
1.24 henning 98: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
99: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 100: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
101: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 102: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
1.24 henning 105: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
106: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
108: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
109: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
110: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 111: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 112: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
113: <p>
1.24 henning 114: <li><a name="fts"></a>
115: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 116: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
117: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 118: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <p>
1.24 henning 121: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
122: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
124: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 125: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
1.24 henning 128: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
129: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 130: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
131: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 132: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 133: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
134: <p>
1.24 henning 135: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
136: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 137: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
138: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 139: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 140: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
141: <p>
1.24 henning 142: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
143: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 144: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 145: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 146: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
147: of time.
1.21 naddy 148: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 149: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
150: </ul>
151: <p>
1.24 henning 152: <a name="i386"></a>
153: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 154: <ul>
1.24 henning 155: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
156: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 157: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
158: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
159: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 160: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <p>
1.24 henning 163: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
164: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 165: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
166: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 167: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 168: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
169: <p>
1.1 deraadt 170: </ul>
1.24 henning 171: <a name="mac68k"></a>
172: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 173: <ul>
1.24 henning 174: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
175: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 176: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
177: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
178: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 179: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 180: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
181: <p>
182: </ul>
183: <p>
1.24 henning 184: <a name="sparc"></a>
185: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 186: <ul>
187: <li>No problems identified yet.
188: </ul>
189: <p>
1.24 henning 190: <a name="amiga"></a>
191: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 192: <ul>
193: <li>No problems identified yet.
194: </ul>
195: <p>
1.24 henning 196: <a name="pmax"></a>
197: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 198: <ul>
199: <li>No problems identified yet.
200: </ul>
201: <p>
1.24 henning 202: <a name="arc"></a>
203: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 204: <ul>
205: <li>No problems identified yet.
206: </ul>
207: <p>
1.24 henning 208: <a name="alpha"></a>
209: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 210: <ul>
211: <li>No problems identified yet.
212: </ul>
213: <p>
1.24 henning 214: <a name="hp300"></a>
215: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 216: <ul>
217: <li>No problems identified yet.
218: </ul>
219: <p>
1.24 henning 220: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
221: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 222: <ul>
223: <li>No problems identified yet.
224: </ul>
225: <p>
1.24 henning 226: <a name="powerpc"></a>
227: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 228: <ul>
1.24 henning 229: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
230: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 231: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
232: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 233: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 234: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
235: <p>
236: </ul>
237:
238: <br>
239:
240: <hr>
1.6 jason 241: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 242: <br>
1.19 deraadt 243: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 244: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
245: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
246: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
247: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
248: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
249: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
250: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
251: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
252: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
253: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 254: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 255: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 256: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 257: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 258: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.30 deraadt 259: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 260: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 261: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 262: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 ! merdely 263: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
! 264: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>.
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