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19: OpenBSD 2.5 errata
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1.6 jason 23: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 24: <br>
1.19 deraadt 25: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 26: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
27: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
28: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
29: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
30: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
31: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
32: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
33: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
34: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
35: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 36: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 37: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 39: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 40: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.52 deraadt 41: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.37 deraadt 42: <br>
1.31 deraadt 43: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 44: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 45: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 46: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 47: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 48: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 49: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 50: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 51: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 52: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 miod 53: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.45 nick 54: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.46 sthen 55: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.47 deraadt 56: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.48 deraadt 57: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.49 deraadt 58: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
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1.50 deraadt 60: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
1.58 jsg 61: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
1.62 deraadt 62: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
63: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 65: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 67: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 68: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
69: This file is updated once a day.
1.53 deraadt 70: <p>
1.1 deraadt 71:
1.53 deraadt 72: The patches below are available in CVS via the
73: <code>OPENBSD_2_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 74: <p>
1.53 deraadt 75:
1.20 deraadt 76: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.53 deraadt 77: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
78: <p>
1.7 ericj 79:
1.1 deraadt 80: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 81:
1.9 jufi 82: <ul>
1.60 bentley 83: <li id="cron">
1.56 deraadt 84: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
85: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 86: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
87: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 88: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
90: <p>
1.60 bentley 91: <li id="miscfs">
1.56 deraadt 92: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
93: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 94: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
95: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
96: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 97: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
99: <p>
1.60 bentley 100: <li id="profil">
1.56 deraadt 101: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
102: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 103: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 104: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
106: <p>
1.60 bentley 107: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.56 deraadt 108: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
109: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 110: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
111: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.53 deraadt 112: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 113: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
114: <p>
1.60 bentley 115: <li id="rc">
1.56 deraadt 116: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
117: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 118: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
119: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 120: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
122: <p>
1.60 bentley 123: <li id="chflags">
1.56 deraadt 124: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
125: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 126: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
127: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 128: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 129: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
130: <p>
1.60 bentley 131: <li id="nroff">
1.56 deraadt 132: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
133: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 134: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
135: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
136: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
137: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 138: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 139: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
140: <p>
1.60 bentley 141: <li id="fts">
1.56 deraadt 142: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
143: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 144: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
145: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 146: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 147: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
148: <p>
1.60 bentley 149: <li id="tcpsack">
1.56 deraadt 150: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
151: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 152: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
153: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 154: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
156: <p>
1.60 bentley 157: <li id="ipsec1">
1.56 deraadt 158: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
159: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 160: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
161: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 162: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 163: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
164: <p>
1.60 bentley 165: <li id="bmap">
1.56 deraadt 166: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
167: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 168: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 169: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 170: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 171: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
172: <p>
1.60 bentley 173: <li id="pfkey">
1.56 deraadt 174: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
175: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 176: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 177: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 178: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
179: of time.
1.42 sthen 180: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 181: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
182: <p>
1.60 bentley 183: <li id="y2k">
1.24 henning 184: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 185: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
186: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
187: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 188: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 189: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
190: <p>
1.60 bentley 191: <li id="brooktree">
1.24 henning 192: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 193: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
194: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 195: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 196: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
197: <p>
1.60 bentley 198: <li id="macutils">
1.24 henning 199: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 200: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
201: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
202: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 203: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
204: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 205: <p>
1.60 bentley 206: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.24 henning 207: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 208: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
209: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 210: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 211: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
212: <p>
213: </ul>
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