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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>,
1.43 deraadt 52: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 ! miod 53: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
! 54: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>.
1.18 deraadt 55: <br>
1.1 deraadt 56: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 58: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 59: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
60: This file is updated once a day.
61:
1.7 ericj 62: <p>
1.20 deraadt 63: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 64: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
65:
1.1 deraadt 66: <hr>
1.24 henning 67: <a name="all"></a>
68: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 69: <ul>
1.24 henning 70: <li><a name="cron"></a>
71: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 72: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
73: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 74: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 75: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
76: <p>
1.24 henning 77: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
78: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 79: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
80: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
81: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 82: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 83: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
84: <p>
1.24 henning 85: <li><a name="profil"></a>
86: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 87: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 88: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
1.24 henning 91: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
92: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
94: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
95: <a
1.42 sthen 96: href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 97: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
98: <p>
1.24 henning 99: <li><a name="rc"></a>
100: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 101: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
102: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 103: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 104: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
105: <p>
1.24 henning 106: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
107: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 108: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
109: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 110: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 111: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
112: <p>
1.24 henning 113: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
114: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 115: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
116: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
117: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
118: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 119: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 120: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
121: <p>
1.24 henning 122: <li><a name="fts"></a>
123: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 124: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
125: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 126: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 127: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
128: <p>
1.24 henning 129: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
130: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 131: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
132: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 133: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 134: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
135: <p>
1.24 henning 136: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
137: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 138: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
139: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 140: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
142: <p>
1.24 henning 143: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
144: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 145: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
146: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 147: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: <p>
1.24 henning 150: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
151: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 152: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 153: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 154: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
155: of time.
1.42 sthen 156: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 157: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
158: </ul>
159: <p>
1.24 henning 160: <a name="i386"></a>
161: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 162: <ul>
1.24 henning 163: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
164: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 165: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
166: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
167: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 168: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 169: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
170: <p>
1.24 henning 171: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
172: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 173: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
174: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 175: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 176: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
177: <p>
1.1 deraadt 178: </ul>
1.24 henning 179: <a name="mac68k"></a>
180: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 181: <ul>
1.24 henning 182: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
183: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 184: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
185: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
186: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 187: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
188: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 189: <p>
190: </ul>
191: <p>
1.24 henning 192: <a name="sparc"></a>
193: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 194: <ul>
195: <li>No problems identified yet.
196: </ul>
197: <p>
1.24 henning 198: <a name="amiga"></a>
199: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 200: <ul>
201: <li>No problems identified yet.
202: </ul>
203: <p>
1.24 henning 204: <a name="pmax"></a>
205: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 206: <ul>
207: <li>No problems identified yet.
208: </ul>
209: <p>
1.24 henning 210: <a name="arc"></a>
211: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 212: <ul>
213: <li>No problems identified yet.
214: </ul>
215: <p>
1.24 henning 216: <a name="alpha"></a>
217: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 218: <ul>
219: <li>No problems identified yet.
220: </ul>
221: <p>
1.24 henning 222: <a name="hp300"></a>
223: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 224: <ul>
225: <li>No problems identified yet.
226: </ul>
227: <p>
1.24 henning 228: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
229: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 230: <ul>
231: <li>No problems identified yet.
232: </ul>
233: <p>
1.24 henning 234: <a name="powerpc"></a>
235: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 236: <ul>
1.24 henning 237: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
238: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 239: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
240: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 241: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 242: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
243: <p>
244: </ul>
245:
246: <br>
247:
248: <hr>
1.6 jason 249: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 250: <br>
1.19 deraadt 251: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 252: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
253: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
254: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
255: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
256: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
257: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
258: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
259: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
260: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
261: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 262: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 263: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 264: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 265: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 266: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 deraadt 267: <br>
1.30 deraadt 268: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 269: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 270: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 271: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 272: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 273: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 274: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 275: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 276: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 277: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 278: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 ! miod 279: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
! 280: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>.
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