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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>,
1.41 deraadt 51: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
52: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>.
1.18 deraadt 53: <br>
1.1 deraadt 54: <hr>
55:
1.42 ! sthen 56: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 57: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
58: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 60: <p>
1.20 deraadt 61: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 62: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
63:
1.1 deraadt 64: <hr>
1.24 henning 65: <a name="all"></a>
66: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 67: <ul>
1.24 henning 68: <li><a name="cron"></a>
69: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 70: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
71: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 ! sthen 72: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 73: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
74: <p>
1.24 henning 75: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
76: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 77: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
78: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
79: enabled by default).
1.42 ! sthen 80: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 81: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
82: <p>
1.24 henning 83: <li><a name="profil"></a>
84: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 85: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 ! sthen 86: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 87: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
88: <p>
1.24 henning 89: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
90: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 91: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
92: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
93: <a
1.42 ! sthen 94: href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.24 henning 97: <li><a name="rc"></a>
98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
100: to use -execdir.
1.42 ! sthen 101: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: <p>
1.24 henning 104: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
105: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
107: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 ! sthen 108: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 109: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
110: <p>
1.24 henning 111: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
112: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
114: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
115: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
116: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 ! sthen 117: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119: <p>
1.24 henning 120: <li><a name="fts"></a>
121: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 122: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
123: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 ! sthen 124: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
126: <p>
1.24 henning 127: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
128: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
130: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 ! sthen 131: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 132: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
133: <p>
1.24 henning 134: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
135: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
137: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 ! sthen 138: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 139: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
140: <p>
1.24 henning 141: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
142: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
144: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 ! sthen 145: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 146: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
147: <p>
1.24 henning 148: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
149: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 150: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 151: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 152: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
153: of time.
1.42 ! sthen 154: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
156: </ul>
157: <p>
1.24 henning 158: <a name="i386"></a>
159: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 160: <ul>
1.24 henning 161: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
162: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 163: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
164: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
165: just a workaround.
1.42 ! sthen 166: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
168: <p>
1.24 henning 169: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
170: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 171: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
172: the kernel crashed.
1.42 ! sthen 173: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 174: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
175: <p>
1.1 deraadt 176: </ul>
1.24 henning 177: <a name="mac68k"></a>
178: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 179: <ul>
1.24 henning 180: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
181: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 182: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
183: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
184: FTP install directories. See
1.42 ! sthen 185: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
! 186: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 187: <p>
188: </ul>
189: <p>
1.24 henning 190: <a name="sparc"></a>
191: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 192: <ul>
193: <li>No problems identified yet.
194: </ul>
195: <p>
1.24 henning 196: <a name="amiga"></a>
197: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 198: <ul>
199: <li>No problems identified yet.
200: </ul>
201: <p>
1.24 henning 202: <a name="pmax"></a>
203: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 204: <ul>
205: <li>No problems identified yet.
206: </ul>
207: <p>
1.24 henning 208: <a name="arc"></a>
209: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 210: <ul>
211: <li>No problems identified yet.
212: </ul>
213: <p>
1.24 henning 214: <a name="alpha"></a>
215: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 216: <ul>
217: <li>No problems identified yet.
218: </ul>
219: <p>
1.24 henning 220: <a name="hp300"></a>
221: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 222: <ul>
223: <li>No problems identified yet.
224: </ul>
225: <p>
1.24 henning 226: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
227: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 228: <ul>
229: <li>No problems identified yet.
230: </ul>
231: <p>
1.24 henning 232: <a name="powerpc"></a>
233: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 234: <ul>
1.24 henning 235: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
236: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 237: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
238: unreliability.
1.42 ! sthen 239: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 240: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
241: <p>
242: </ul>
243:
244: <br>
245:
246: <hr>
1.6 jason 247: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 248: <br>
1.19 deraadt 249: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 250: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
251: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
252: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
253: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
254: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
255: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
256: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
257: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
258: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
259: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 260: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 261: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 262: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 263: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 264: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 deraadt 265: <br>
1.30 deraadt 266: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 267: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 268: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 269: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 270: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 271: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 272: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 273: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 274: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 275: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
276: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>.
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