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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>,
1.48 ! deraadt 57: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
! 58: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>.
1.18 deraadt 59: <br>
1.1 deraadt 60: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 62: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 63: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
64: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 66: <p>
1.20 deraadt 67: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 68: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
69:
1.1 deraadt 70: <hr>
1.24 henning 71: <a name="all"></a>
72: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 73: <ul>
1.24 henning 74: <li><a name="cron"></a>
75: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 76: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
77: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 78: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 79: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
80: <p>
1.24 henning 81: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
82: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 83: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
84: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
85: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 86: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 87: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
88: <p>
1.24 henning 89: <li><a name="profil"></a>
90: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 91: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 92: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 93: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
94: <p>
1.24 henning 95: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
96: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
98: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
99: <a
1.42 sthen 100: href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 101: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
102: <p>
1.24 henning 103: <li><a name="rc"></a>
104: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 105: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
106: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 107: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 108: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109: <p>
1.24 henning 110: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
111: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
113: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 114: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 115: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
116: <p>
1.24 henning 117: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
118: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 119: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
120: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
121: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
122: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 123: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
1.24 henning 126: <li><a name="fts"></a>
127: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 128: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
129: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 130: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
1.24 henning 133: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
134: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 135: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
136: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 137: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 138: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
139: <p>
1.24 henning 140: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
141: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 142: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
143: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 144: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 145: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
146: <p>
1.24 henning 147: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
148: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 149: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
150: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 151: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 152: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
153: <p>
1.24 henning 154: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
155: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 156: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 157: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 158: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
159: of time.
1.42 sthen 160: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: </ul>
163: <p>
1.24 henning 164: <a name="i386"></a>
165: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 166: <ul>
1.24 henning 167: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
168: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 169: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
170: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
171: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 172: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 173: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
174: <p>
1.24 henning 175: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
176: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 177: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
178: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 179: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 180: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
181: <p>
1.1 deraadt 182: </ul>
1.24 henning 183: <a name="mac68k"></a>
184: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 185: <ul>
1.24 henning 186: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
187: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 188: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
189: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
190: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 191: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
192: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 193: <p>
194: </ul>
195: <p>
1.24 henning 196: <a name="sparc"></a>
197: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 198: <ul>
199: <li>No problems identified yet.
200: </ul>
201: <p>
1.24 henning 202: <a name="amiga"></a>
203: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 204: <ul>
205: <li>No problems identified yet.
206: </ul>
207: <p>
1.24 henning 208: <a name="pmax"></a>
209: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 210: <ul>
211: <li>No problems identified yet.
212: </ul>
213: <p>
1.24 henning 214: <a name="arc"></a>
215: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 216: <ul>
217: <li>No problems identified yet.
218: </ul>
219: <p>
1.24 henning 220: <a name="alpha"></a>
221: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 222: <ul>
223: <li>No problems identified yet.
224: </ul>
225: <p>
1.24 henning 226: <a name="hp300"></a>
227: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 228: <ul>
229: <li>No problems identified yet.
230: </ul>
231: <p>
1.24 henning 232: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
233: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 234: <ul>
235: <li>No problems identified yet.
236: </ul>
237: <p>
1.24 henning 238: <a name="powerpc"></a>
239: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 240: <ul>
1.24 henning 241: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
242: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 243: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
244: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 245: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 246: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
247: <p>
248: </ul>
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