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1.1 deraadt 16: This is the OpenBSD 2.5 release errata & patch list:
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1.6 jason 21: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 22: <br>
1.19 deraadt 23: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 24: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
25: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
26: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
27: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
28: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
29: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
30: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
31: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
32: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
33: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 34: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 35: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 36: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 37: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 38: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.52 deraadt 39: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.37 deraadt 40: <br>
1.31 deraadt 41: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 42: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 43: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 44: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 45: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 46: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 47: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 48: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 49: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 50: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 miod 51: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.45 nick 52: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.46 sthen 53: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.47 deraadt 54: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.48 deraadt 55: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.49 deraadt 56: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
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1.50 deraadt 58: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
59: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</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.
1.53 deraadt 66: <p>
1.1 deraadt 67:
1.53 deraadt 68: The patches below are available in CVS via the
69: <code>OPENBSD_2_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 70: <p>
1.53 deraadt 71:
1.20 deraadt 72: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.53 deraadt 73: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
74: <p>
1.7 ericj 75:
1.1 deraadt 76: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 77:
1.9 jufi 78: <ul>
1.24 henning 79: <li><a name="cron"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 80: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 81: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
82: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 83: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 84: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
85: <p>
1.24 henning 86: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 87: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 88: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
89: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
90: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 91: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
93: <p>
1.24 henning 94: <li><a name="profil"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 95: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 96: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 97: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
99: <p>
1.24 henning 100: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 101: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 102: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
103: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.53 deraadt 104: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
106: <p>
1.24 henning 107: <li><a name="rc"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 108: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 109: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
110: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 111: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 112: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
113: <p>
1.24 henning 114: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 115: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 116: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
117: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 118: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <p>
1.24 henning 121: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 122: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
124: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
125: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
126: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 127: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 128: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
129: <p>
1.24 henning 130: <li><a name="fts"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 131: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 132: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
133: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 134: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
1.24 henning 137: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 138: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 139: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
140: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 141: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
143: <p>
1.24 henning 144: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 145: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 146: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
147: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 148: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 149: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
150: <p>
1.24 henning 151: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 152: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 153: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 154: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 155: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
157: <p>
1.24 henning 158: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
1.54 ! deraadt 159: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 160: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 161: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 162: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
163: of time.
1.42 sthen 164: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 165: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
166: </ul>
167: <p>
1.24 henning 168: <a name="i386"></a>
169: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.5 deraadt 170: <ul>
1.24 henning 171: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
172: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 173: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
174: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
175: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 176: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
178: <p>
1.24 henning 179: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
180: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 181: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
182: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 183: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 184: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
185: <p>
1.1 deraadt 186: </ul>
1.24 henning 187: <a name="mac68k"></a>
188: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 189: <ul>
1.24 henning 190: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
191: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 192: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
193: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
194: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 195: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
196: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 197: <p>
198: </ul>
199: <p>
1.24 henning 200: <a name="powerpc"></a>
201: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 202: <ul>
1.24 henning 203: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
204: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 205: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
206: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 207: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 208: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
209: <p>
210: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 211: <p>
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