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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>,
1.39 deraadt 49: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 ! deraadt 50: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
! 51: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>.
1.18 deraadt 52: <br>
1.1 deraadt 53: <hr>
54:
1.21 naddy 55: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 56: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
57: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 59: <p>
1.20 deraadt 60: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 61: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
62:
1.1 deraadt 63: <hr>
1.24 henning 64: <a name="all"></a>
65: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 66: <ul>
1.24 henning 67: <li><a name="cron"></a>
68: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 69: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
70: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.21 naddy 71: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 72: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
73: <p>
1.24 henning 74: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
75: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 76: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
77: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
78: enabled by default).
1.21 naddy 79: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 80: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
81: <p>
1.24 henning 82: <li><a name="profil"></a>
83: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 84: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.21 naddy 85: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 86: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
87: <p>
1.24 henning 88: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
89: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 90: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
91: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
92: <a
1.21 naddy 93: href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
1.24 henning 96: <li><a name="rc"></a>
97: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 98: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
99: to use -execdir.
1.21 naddy 100: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 101: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
102: <p>
1.24 henning 103: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
104: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 105: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
106: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.21 naddy 107: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 108: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109: <p>
1.24 henning 110: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
111: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
113: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
114: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
115: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.21 naddy 116: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 117: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
118: <p>
1.24 henning 119: <li><a name="fts"></a>
120: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 121: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
122: with a very large number of entries.
1.21 naddy 123: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
1.24 henning 126: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
127: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 128: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
129: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.21 naddy 130: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
1.24 henning 133: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
134: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 135: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
136: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.21 naddy 137: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 138: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
139: <p>
1.24 henning 140: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
141: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 142: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
143: from an ext2fs partition.
1.21 naddy 144: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 145: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
146: <p>
1.24 henning 147: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
148: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 149: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 150: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 151: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
152: of time.
1.21 naddy 153: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 154: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
155: </ul>
156: <p>
1.24 henning 157: <a name="i386"></a>
158: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 159: <ul>
1.24 henning 160: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
161: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 162: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
163: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
164: just a workaround.
1.21 naddy 165: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 166: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
167: <p>
1.24 henning 168: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
169: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 170: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
171: the kernel crashed.
1.21 naddy 172: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 173: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
174: <p>
1.1 deraadt 175: </ul>
1.24 henning 176: <a name="mac68k"></a>
177: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 178: <ul>
1.24 henning 179: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
180: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 181: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
182: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
183: FTP install directories. See
1.21 naddy 184: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
1.1 deraadt 185: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
186: <p>
187: </ul>
188: <p>
1.24 henning 189: <a name="sparc"></a>
190: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 191: <ul>
192: <li>No problems identified yet.
193: </ul>
194: <p>
1.24 henning 195: <a name="amiga"></a>
196: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 197: <ul>
198: <li>No problems identified yet.
199: </ul>
200: <p>
1.24 henning 201: <a name="pmax"></a>
202: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 203: <ul>
204: <li>No problems identified yet.
205: </ul>
206: <p>
1.24 henning 207: <a name="arc"></a>
208: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 209: <ul>
210: <li>No problems identified yet.
211: </ul>
212: <p>
1.24 henning 213: <a name="alpha"></a>
214: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 215: <ul>
216: <li>No problems identified yet.
217: </ul>
218: <p>
1.24 henning 219: <a name="hp300"></a>
220: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 221: <ul>
222: <li>No problems identified yet.
223: </ul>
224: <p>
1.24 henning 225: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
226: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 227: <ul>
228: <li>No problems identified yet.
229: </ul>
230: <p>
1.24 henning 231: <a name="powerpc"></a>
232: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 233: <ul>
1.24 henning 234: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
235: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 236: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
237: unreliability.
1.21 naddy 238: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 239: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
240: <p>
241: </ul>
242:
243: <br>
244:
245: <hr>
1.6 jason 246: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 247: <br>
1.19 deraadt 248: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 249: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
250: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
251: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
252: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
253: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
254: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
255: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
256: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
257: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
258: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 259: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 260: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 261: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 262: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 263: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 deraadt 264: <br>
1.30 deraadt 265: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 266: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 267: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 268: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 269: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 270: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 271: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 272: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 ! deraadt 273: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
! 274: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>.
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