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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>,
1.52 deraadt 57: <br>
1.50 deraadt 58: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
1.58 ! jsg 59: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
! 60: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</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.
1.53 deraadt 67: <p>
1.1 deraadt 68:
1.53 deraadt 69: The patches below are available in CVS via the
70: <code>OPENBSD_2_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 71: <p>
1.53 deraadt 72:
1.20 deraadt 73: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.53 deraadt 74: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
75: <p>
1.7 ericj 76:
1.1 deraadt 77: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 78:
1.9 jufi 79: <ul>
1.24 henning 80: <li><a name="cron"></a>
1.56 deraadt 81: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
82: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 83: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
84: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 85: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 86: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
87: <p>
1.24 henning 88: <li><a name="miscfs"></a>
1.56 deraadt 89: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
90: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 91: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
92: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
93: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 94: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.24 henning 97: <li><a name="profil"></a>
1.56 deraadt 98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
99: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 100: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 101: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
103: <p>
1.24 henning 104: <li><a name="ipsec_in_use"></a>
1.56 deraadt 105: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
106: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
108: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.53 deraadt 109: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
1.24 henning 112: <li><a name="rc"></a>
1.56 deraadt 113: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
114: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 115: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
116: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 117: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119: <p>
1.24 henning 120: <li><a name="chflags"></a>
1.56 deraadt 121: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
122: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
124: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 125: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
1.24 henning 128: <li><a name="nroff"></a>
1.56 deraadt 129: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
130: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 131: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
132: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
133: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
134: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 135: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 136: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
137: <p>
1.24 henning 138: <li><a name="fts"></a>
1.56 deraadt 139: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
140: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 141: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
142: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 143: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.24 henning 146: <li><a name="tcpsack"></a>
1.56 deraadt 147: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
148: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 149: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
150: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 151: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 152: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
153: <p>
1.24 henning 154: <li><a name="ipsec1"></a>
1.56 deraadt 155: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
156: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 157: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
158: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 159: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 160: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
161: <p>
1.24 henning 162: <li><a name="bmap"></a>
1.56 deraadt 163: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
164: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 165: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 166: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 167: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 168: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
169: <p>
1.24 henning 170: <li><a name="pfkey"></a>
1.56 deraadt 171: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
172: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 173: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 174: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 175: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
176: of time.
1.42 sthen 177: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 178: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
179: <p>
1.24 henning 180: <li><a name="y2k"></a>
181: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 182: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
183: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
184: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 185: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 186: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
187: <p>
1.24 henning 188: <li><a name="brooktree"></a>
189: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 190: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
191: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 192: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 193: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
194: <p>
1.24 henning 195: <li><a name="macutils"></a>
196: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 197: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
198: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
199: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 200: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
201: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 202: <p>
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>
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