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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>,
1.46 sthen 55: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.47 ! deraadt 56: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
! 57: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>.
1.18 deraadt 58: <br>
1.1 deraadt 59: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 61: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 62: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
63: This file is updated once a day.
64:
1.7 ericj 65: <p>
1.20 deraadt 66: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 67: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
68:
1.1 deraadt 69: <hr>
1.24 henning 70: <a name="all"></a>
71: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 72: <ul>
1.24 henning 73: <li><a name="cron"></a>
74: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 75: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
76: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 77: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 78: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
79: <p>
1.24 henning 80: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
81: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 82: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
83: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
84: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 85: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 86: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
87: <p>
1.24 henning 88: <li><a name="profil"></a>
89: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 90: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 91: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
93: <p>
1.24 henning 94: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
95: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 96: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
97: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
98: <a
1.42 sthen 99: href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 100: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
101: <p>
1.24 henning 102: <li><a name="rc"></a>
103: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
105: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 106: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
1.24 henning 109: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
110: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 111: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
112: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 113: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: <p>
1.24 henning 116: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
117: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 118: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
119: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
120: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
121: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 122: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
124: <p>
1.24 henning 125: <li><a name="fts"></a>
126: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
128: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 129: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
131: <p>
1.24 henning 132: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
133: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 134: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
135: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 136: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 137: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
138: <p>
1.24 henning 139: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
140: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 141: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
142: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 143: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.24 henning 146: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
147: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 148: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
149: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 150: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 151: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
152: <p>
1.24 henning 153: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
154: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 155: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 156: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 157: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
158: of time.
1.42 sthen 159: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 160: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
161: </ul>
162: <p>
1.24 henning 163: <a name="i386"></a>
164: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 165: <ul>
1.24 henning 166: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
167: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 168: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
169: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
170: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 171: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 172: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
173: <p>
1.24 henning 174: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
175: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 176: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
177: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 178: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 179: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
180: <p>
1.1 deraadt 181: </ul>
1.24 henning 182: <a name="mac68k"></a>
183: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 184: <ul>
1.24 henning 185: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
186: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 187: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
188: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
189: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 190: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
191: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 192: <p>
193: </ul>
194: <p>
1.24 henning 195: <a name="sparc"></a>
196: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 197: <ul>
198: <li>No problems identified yet.
199: </ul>
200: <p>
1.24 henning 201: <a name="amiga"></a>
202: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 203: <ul>
204: <li>No problems identified yet.
205: </ul>
206: <p>
1.24 henning 207: <a name="pmax"></a>
208: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 209: <ul>
210: <li>No problems identified yet.
211: </ul>
212: <p>
1.24 henning 213: <a name="arc"></a>
214: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 215: <ul>
216: <li>No problems identified yet.
217: </ul>
218: <p>
1.24 henning 219: <a name="alpha"></a>
220: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 221: <ul>
222: <li>No problems identified yet.
223: </ul>
224: <p>
1.24 henning 225: <a name="hp300"></a>
226: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 227: <ul>
228: <li>No problems identified yet.
229: </ul>
230: <p>
1.24 henning 231: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
232: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 233: <ul>
234: <li>No problems identified yet.
235: </ul>
236: <p>
1.24 henning 237: <a name="powerpc"></a>
238: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 239: <ul>
1.24 henning 240: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
241: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 242: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
243: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 244: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 245: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
246: <p>
247: </ul>
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