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21: OpenBSD 2.5 errata
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1.6 jason 25: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 26: <br>
1.19 deraadt 27: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 28: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
29: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
30: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
31: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
32: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
33: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
34: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
35: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
36: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
37: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 38: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 39: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 40: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 41: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 42: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.52 deraadt 43: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.37 deraadt 44: <br>
1.31 deraadt 45: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 46: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 47: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 48: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 49: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 50: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 51: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 52: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 53: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 54: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 miod 55: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.45 nick 56: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.46 sthen 57: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.47 deraadt 58: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.48 deraadt 59: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.49 deraadt 60: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
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1.50 deraadt 62: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
1.58 jsg 63: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
64: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 66: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 68: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 69: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
70: This file is updated once a day.
1.53 deraadt 71: <p>
1.1 deraadt 72:
1.53 deraadt 73: The patches below are available in CVS via the
74: <code>OPENBSD_2_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 75: <p>
1.53 deraadt 76:
1.20 deraadt 77: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.53 deraadt 78: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
79: <p>
1.7 ericj 80:
1.1 deraadt 81: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 82:
1.9 jufi 83: <ul>
1.60 ! bentley 84: <li id="cron">
1.56 deraadt 85: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
86: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 87: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
88: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 89: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 90: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
91: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 92: <li id="miscfs">
1.56 deraadt 93: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
94: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 95: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
96: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
97: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 98: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 101: <li id="profil">
1.56 deraadt 102: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
103: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 105: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 106: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
107: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 108: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.56 deraadt 109: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
110: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 111: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
112: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.53 deraadt 113: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 116: <li id="rc">
1.56 deraadt 117: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
118: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 119: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
120: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 121: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 122: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
123: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 124: <li id="chflags">
1.56 deraadt 125: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
126: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
128: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 129: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
131: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 132: <li id="nroff">
1.56 deraadt 133: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
134: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 135: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
136: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
137: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
138: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 139: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 140: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
141: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 142: <li id="fts">
1.56 deraadt 143: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
144: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 145: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
146: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 147: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
149: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 150: <li id="tcpsack">
1.56 deraadt 151: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
152: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 153: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
154: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 155: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
157: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 158: <li id="ipsec1">
1.56 deraadt 159: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
160: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 161: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
162: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 163: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 164: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
165: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 166: <li id="bmap">
1.56 deraadt 167: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
168: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 169: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 170: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 171: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 172: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
173: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 174: <li id="pfkey">
1.56 deraadt 175: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
176: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 177: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 178: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 179: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
180: of time.
1.42 sthen 181: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 182: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
183: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 184: <li id="y2k">
1.24 henning 185: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 186: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
187: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
188: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 189: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 190: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
191: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 192: <li id="brooktree">
1.24 henning 193: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 194: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
195: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 196: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 197: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
198: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 199: <li id="macutils">
1.24 henning 200: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 201: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
202: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
203: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 204: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
205: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 206: <p>
1.60 ! bentley 207: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.24 henning 208: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 209: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
210: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 211: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 212: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
213: <p>
214: </ul>
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