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1.1 deraadt 17: This is the OpenBSD 2.5 release errata & patch list:
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1.6 jason 22: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 23: <br>
1.19 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 25: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
26: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
27: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
28: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
29: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
30: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
31: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
32: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
33: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
34: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 35: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 36: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 37: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 38: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 39: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.52 ! deraadt 40: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.37 deraadt 41: <br>
1.31 deraadt 42: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 43: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 44: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 45: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 46: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 47: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 48: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 49: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 50: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 51: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 miod 52: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.45 nick 53: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.46 sthen 54: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.47 deraadt 55: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.48 deraadt 56: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.49 deraadt 57: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
1.52 ! deraadt 58: <br>
1.50 deraadt 59: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
60: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>.
1.18 deraadt 61: <br>
1.1 deraadt 62: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 64: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 65: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
66: This file is updated once a day.
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1.7 ericj 68: <p>
1.20 deraadt 69: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.7 ericj 70: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
71:
1.1 deraadt 72: <hr>
1.24 henning 73: <a name="all"></a>
74: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.9 jufi 75: <ul>
1.24 henning 76: <li><a name="cron"></a>
77: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 78: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
79: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 80: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 81: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
82: <p>
1.24 henning 83: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
84: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 85: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
86: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
87: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 88: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
1.24 henning 91: <li><a name="profil"></a>
92: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 94: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.24 henning 97: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
100: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
101: <a
1.42 sthen 102: href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
1.24 henning 105: <li><a name="rc"></a>
106: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
108: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 109: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
1.24 henning 112: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
113: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
115: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 116: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 117: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
118: <p>
1.24 henning 119: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
120: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 121: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
122: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
123: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
124: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 125: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
1.24 henning 128: <li><a name="fts"></a>
129: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 130: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
131: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 132: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 133: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
134: <p>
1.24 henning 135: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
136: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 137: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
138: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 139: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 140: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
141: <p>
1.24 henning 142: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
143: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 144: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
145: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 146: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 147: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
148: <p>
1.24 henning 149: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
150: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.50 deraadt 151: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 152: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 153: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 154: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
155: <p>
1.24 henning 156: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
157: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 159: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 160: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
161: of time.
1.42 sthen 162: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 163: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
164: </ul>
165: <p>
1.24 henning 166: <a name="i386"></a>
167: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 168: <ul>
1.24 henning 169: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
170: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 171: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
172: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
173: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 174: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 175: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
176: <p>
1.24 henning 177: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
178: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 179: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
180: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 181: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 182: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
183: <p>
1.1 deraadt 184: </ul>
1.24 henning 185: <a name="mac68k"></a>
186: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 187: <ul>
1.24 henning 188: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
189: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 190: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
191: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
192: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 193: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
194: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 195: <p>
196: </ul>
197: <p>
1.24 henning 198: <a name="sparc"></a>
199: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 200: <ul>
201: <li>No problems identified yet.
202: </ul>
203: <p>
1.24 henning 204: <a name="amiga"></a>
205: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 206: <ul>
207: <li>No problems identified yet.
208: </ul>
209: <p>
1.24 henning 210: <a name="pmax"></a>
211: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 212: <ul>
213: <li>No problems identified yet.
214: </ul>
215: <p>
1.24 henning 216: <a name="arc"></a>
217: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 218: <ul>
219: <li>No problems identified yet.
220: </ul>
221: <p>
1.24 henning 222: <a name="alpha"></a>
223: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 224: <ul>
225: <li>No problems identified yet.
226: </ul>
227: <p>
1.24 henning 228: <a name="hp300"></a>
229: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 230: <ul>
231: <li>No problems identified yet.
232: </ul>
233: <p>
1.24 henning 234: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
235: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 236: <ul>
237: <li>No problems identified yet.
238: </ul>
239: <p>
1.24 henning 240: <a name="powerpc"></a>
241: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 242: <ul>
1.24 henning 243: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
244: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 245: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
246: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 247: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 248: A source code patch exists which remedies these problems.</a>
249: <p>
1.51 deraadt 250:
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