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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>,
1.37 deraadt 41: <br>
1.30 deraadt 42: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 43: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 44: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 45: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 46: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 47: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 48: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
49: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>.
1.38 ! djm 50: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>.
1.18 deraadt 51: <br>
1.1 deraadt 52: <hr>
53:
1.21 naddy 54: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 55: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
56: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 58: <p>
1.20 deraadt 59: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 60: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
61:
1.1 deraadt 62: <hr>
1.24 henning 63: <a name="all"></a>
64: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 65: <ul>
1.24 henning 66: <li><a name="cron"></a>
67: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 68: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
69: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 70: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 71: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
72: <p>
1.24 henning 73: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
74: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 75: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
76: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
77: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 78: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 79: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
80: <p>
1.24 henning 81: <li><a name="profil"></a>
82: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 83: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 84: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 85: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
86: <p>
1.24 henning 87: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
88: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 89: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
90: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
91: <a
1.21 naddy 92: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 93: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
94: <p>
1.24 henning 95: <li><a name="rc"></a>
96: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
98: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 99: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 100: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
101: <p>
1.24 henning 102: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
103: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
105: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 106: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
1.24 henning 109: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
110: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 111: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
112: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
113: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
114: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 115: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <p>
1.24 henning 118: <li><a name="fts"></a>
119: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
121: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 122: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
124: <p>
1.24 henning 125: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
126: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
128: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 129: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
131: <p>
1.24 henning 132: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
133: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 134: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
135: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 136: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 137: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
138: <p>
1.24 henning 139: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
140: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 141: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
142: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 143: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.24 henning 146: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
147: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 148: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 149: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 150: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
151: of time.
1.21 naddy 152: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: </ul>
155: <p>
1.24 henning 156: <a name="i386"></a>
157: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 158: <ul>
1.24 henning 159: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
160: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 161: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
162: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
163: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 164: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 165: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
166: <p>
1.24 henning 167: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
168: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 169: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
170: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 171: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 172: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
173: <p>
1.1 deraadt 174: </ul>
1.24 henning 175: <a name="mac68k"></a>
176: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 177: <ul>
1.24 henning 178: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
179: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 180: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
181: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
182: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 183: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 184: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
185: <p>
186: </ul>
187: <p>
1.24 henning 188: <a name="sparc"></a>
189: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 190: <ul>
191: <li>No problems identified yet.
192: </ul>
193: <p>
1.24 henning 194: <a name="amiga"></a>
195: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 196: <ul>
197: <li>No problems identified yet.
198: </ul>
199: <p>
1.24 henning 200: <a name="pmax"></a>
201: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 202: <ul>
203: <li>No problems identified yet.
204: </ul>
205: <p>
1.24 henning 206: <a name="arc"></a>
207: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 208: <ul>
209: <li>No problems identified yet.
210: </ul>
211: <p>
1.24 henning 212: <a name="alpha"></a>
213: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 214: <ul>
215: <li>No problems identified yet.
216: </ul>
217: <p>
1.24 henning 218: <a name="hp300"></a>
219: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 220: <ul>
221: <li>No problems identified yet.
222: </ul>
223: <p>
1.24 henning 224: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
225: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 226: <ul>
227: <li>No problems identified yet.
228: </ul>
229: <p>
1.24 henning 230: <a name="powerpc"></a>
231: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 232: <ul>
1.24 henning 233: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
234: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 235: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
236: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 237: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 238: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
239: <p>
240: </ul>
241:
242: <br>
243:
244: <hr>
1.6 jason 245: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 246: <br>
1.19 deraadt 247: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 248: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
249: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
250: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
251: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
252: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
253: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
254: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
255: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
256: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
257: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 258: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 259: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 260: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 261: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 262: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 deraadt 263: <br>
1.30 deraadt 264: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 265: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 266: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 267: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 268: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 269: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 270: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
271: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>.
1.38 ! djm 272: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>.
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