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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>
1.56 ! deraadt 80: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
! 81: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 82: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
83: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 84: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 85: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
86: <p>
1.24 henning 87: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 88: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
! 89: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 90: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
91: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
92: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 93: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
1.24 henning 96: <li><a name="profil"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 97: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
! 98: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 100: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 101: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
102: <p>
1.24 henning 103: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 104: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
! 105: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
107: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.53 deraadt 108: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 109: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
110: <p>
1.24 henning 111: <li><a name="rc"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 112: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
! 113: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
115: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 116: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 117: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
118: <p>
1.24 henning 119: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 120: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
! 121: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 122: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
123: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 124: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
126: <p>
1.24 henning 127: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 128: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
! 129: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 130: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
131: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
132: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
133: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 134: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
1.24 henning 137: <li><a name="fts"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 138: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
! 139: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 140: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
141: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 142: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 143: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
144: <p>
1.24 henning 145: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 146: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
! 147: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 148: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
149: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 150: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 151: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
152: <p>
1.24 henning 153: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 154: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
! 155: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 156: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
157: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 158: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 159: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
160: <p>
1.24 henning 161: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 162: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
! 163: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 164: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 165: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 166: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
168: <p>
1.24 henning 169: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
1.56 ! deraadt 170: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
! 171: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 172: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 173: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 174: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
175: of time.
1.42 sthen 176: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
178: <p>
1.24 henning 179: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
180: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 181: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
182: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
183: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 184: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 185: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
186: <p>
1.24 henning 187: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
188: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 189: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
190: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 191: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 192: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
193: <p>
1.24 henning 194: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
195: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 196: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
197: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
198: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 199: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
200: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 201: <p>
1.24 henning 202: <li><a name="powerpc_trap"></a>
203: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 204: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
205: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 206: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 207: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
208: <p>
209: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 210: <p>
1.51 deraadt 211:
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