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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>,
1.45 ! nick 54: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
! 55: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>.
1.18 deraadt 56: <br>
1.1 deraadt 57: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 59: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 60: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
61: This file is updated once a day.
62:
1.7 ericj 63: <p>
1.20 deraadt 64: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 65: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
66:
1.1 deraadt 67: <hr>
1.24 henning 68: <a name="all"></a>
69: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 70: <ul>
1.24 henning 71: <li><a name="cron"></a>
72: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 73: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
74: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 75: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 76: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
77: <p>
1.24 henning 78: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
79: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 80: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
81: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
82: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 83: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 84: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
85: <p>
1.24 henning 86: <li><a name="profil"></a>
87: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 88: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 89: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 90: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
91: <p>
1.24 henning 92: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
93: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 94: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
95: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
96: <a
1.42 sthen 97: href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
99: <p>
1.24 henning 100: <li><a name="rc"></a>
101: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 102: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
103: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 104: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
106: <p>
1.24 henning 107: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
108: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 109: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
110: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 111: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 112: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
113: <p>
1.24 henning 114: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
115: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 116: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
117: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
118: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
119: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 120: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
122: <p>
1.24 henning 123: <li><a name="fts"></a>
124: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 125: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
126: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 127: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 128: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
129: <p>
1.24 henning 130: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
131: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 132: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
133: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 134: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
1.24 henning 137: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
138: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 139: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
140: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 141: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
143: <p>
1.24 henning 144: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
145: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 146: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
147: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 148: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 149: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
150: <p>
1.24 henning 151: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
152: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 153: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 154: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 155: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
156: of time.
1.42 sthen 157: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 158: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
159: </ul>
160: <p>
1.24 henning 161: <a name="i386"></a>
162: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 163: <ul>
1.24 henning 164: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
165: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 166: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
167: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
168: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 169: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 170: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
171: <p>
1.24 henning 172: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
173: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 174: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
175: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 176: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
178: <p>
1.1 deraadt 179: </ul>
1.24 henning 180: <a name="mac68k"></a>
181: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 182: <ul>
1.24 henning 183: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
184: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 185: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
186: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
187: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 188: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
189: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 190: <p>
191: </ul>
192: <p>
1.24 henning 193: <a name="sparc"></a>
194: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 195: <ul>
196: <li>No problems identified yet.
197: </ul>
198: <p>
1.24 henning 199: <a name="amiga"></a>
200: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 201: <ul>
202: <li>No problems identified yet.
203: </ul>
204: <p>
1.24 henning 205: <a name="pmax"></a>
206: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 207: <ul>
208: <li>No problems identified yet.
209: </ul>
210: <p>
1.24 henning 211: <a name="arc"></a>
212: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 213: <ul>
214: <li>No problems identified yet.
215: </ul>
216: <p>
1.24 henning 217: <a name="alpha"></a>
218: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 219: <ul>
220: <li>No problems identified yet.
221: </ul>
222: <p>
1.24 henning 223: <a name="hp300"></a>
224: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 225: <ul>
226: <li>No problems identified yet.
227: </ul>
228: <p>
1.24 henning 229: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
230: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 231: <ul>
232: <li>No problems identified yet.
233: </ul>
234: <p>
1.24 henning 235: <a name="powerpc"></a>
236: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 237: <ul>
1.24 henning 238: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
239: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 240: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
241: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 242: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 243: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
244: <p>
245: </ul>
246:
247: <br>
248:
249: <hr>
1.6 jason 250: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 251: <br>
1.19 deraadt 252: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 253: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
254: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
255: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
256: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
257: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
258: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
259: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
260: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
261: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
262: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 263: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 264: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 265: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 266: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 267: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.37 deraadt 268: <br>
1.30 deraadt 269: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.31 deraadt 270: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 271: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 272: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 273: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 274: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 275: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 276: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 277: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 278: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 279: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 miod 280: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.45 ! nick 281: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
! 282: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>.
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