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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>,
1.49 ! deraadt 58: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
! 59: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>.
1.18 deraadt 60: <br>
1.1 deraadt 61: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 63: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 64: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
65: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 67: <p>
1.20 deraadt 68: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 69: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
70:
1.1 deraadt 71: <hr>
1.24 henning 72: <a name="all"></a>
73: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 74: <ul>
1.24 henning 75: <li><a name="cron"></a>
76: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 77: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
78: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 79: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 80: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
81: <p>
1.24 henning 82: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
83: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 84: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
85: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
86: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 87: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 88: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
89: <p>
1.24 henning 90: <li><a name="profil"></a>
91: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 92: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 93: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
1.24 henning 96: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
97: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 98: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
99: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
100: <a
1.42 sthen 101: href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: <p>
1.24 henning 104: <li><a name="rc"></a>
105: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
107: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 108: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 109: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
110: <p>
1.24 henning 111: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
112: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
114: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 115: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <p>
1.24 henning 118: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
119: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
121: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
122: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
123: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 124: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
126: <p>
1.24 henning 127: <li><a name="fts"></a>
128: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
130: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 131: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 132: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
133: <p>
1.24 henning 134: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
135: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
137: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 138: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 139: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
140: <p>
1.24 henning 141: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
142: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 143: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
144: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 145: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 146: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
147: <p>
1.24 henning 148: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
149: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 150: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
151: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 152: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <p>
1.24 henning 155: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
156: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 157: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 158: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 159: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
160: of time.
1.42 sthen 161: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 162: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
163: </ul>
164: <p>
1.24 henning 165: <a name="i386"></a>
166: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 167: <ul>
1.24 henning 168: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
169: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 170: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
171: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
172: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 173: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 174: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
175: <p>
1.24 henning 176: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
177: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 178: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
179: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 180: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 181: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
182: <p>
1.1 deraadt 183: </ul>
1.24 henning 184: <a name="mac68k"></a>
185: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 186: <ul>
1.24 henning 187: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
188: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 189: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
190: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
191: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 192: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
193: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 194: <p>
195: </ul>
196: <p>
1.24 henning 197: <a name="sparc"></a>
198: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 199: <ul>
200: <li>No problems identified yet.
201: </ul>
202: <p>
1.24 henning 203: <a name="amiga"></a>
204: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 205: <ul>
206: <li>No problems identified yet.
207: </ul>
208: <p>
1.24 henning 209: <a name="pmax"></a>
210: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 211: <ul>
212: <li>No problems identified yet.
213: </ul>
214: <p>
1.24 henning 215: <a name="arc"></a>
216: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 217: <ul>
218: <li>No problems identified yet.
219: </ul>
220: <p>
1.24 henning 221: <a name="alpha"></a>
222: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 223: <ul>
224: <li>No problems identified yet.
225: </ul>
226: <p>
1.24 henning 227: <a name="hp300"></a>
228: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 229: <ul>
230: <li>No problems identified yet.
231: </ul>
232: <p>
1.24 henning 233: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
234: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 235: <ul>
236: <li>No problems identified yet.
237: </ul>
238: <p>
1.24 henning 239: <a name="powerpc"></a>
240: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 241: <ul>
1.24 henning 242: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
243: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 244: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
245: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 246: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 247: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
248: <p>
249: </ul>
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