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! 21: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
! 22: <font color="#e00000">2.5 errata</font>
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1.1 deraadt 25:
1.6 jason 26: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.18 deraadt 27: <br>
1.19 deraadt 28: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 29: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
30: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
31: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
32: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
33: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
34: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
35: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
36: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
37: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
38: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 39: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 40: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 41: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 42: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 43: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.52 deraadt 44: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.37 deraadt 45: <br>
1.31 deraadt 46: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 47: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 48: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 49: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 50: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 51: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 52: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 53: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 54: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 55: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 miod 56: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.45 nick 57: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.46 sthen 58: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.47 deraadt 59: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.48 deraadt 60: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.49 deraadt 61: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
1.52 deraadt 62: <br>
1.50 deraadt 63: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
1.58 jsg 64: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
1.62 deraadt 65: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
1.65 deraadt 66: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
1.66 deraadt 67: <a href="errata58.html">5.8</a>,
68: <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>.
1.18 deraadt 69: <br>
1.1 deraadt 70: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 72: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 73: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
74: This file is updated once a day.
1.53 deraadt 75: <p>
1.1 deraadt 76:
1.53 deraadt 77: The patches below are available in CVS via the
78: <code>OPENBSD_2_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 79: <p>
1.53 deraadt 80:
1.20 deraadt 81: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.53 deraadt 82: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
83: <p>
1.7 ericj 84:
1.1 deraadt 85: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 86:
1.9 jufi 87: <ul>
1.60 bentley 88: <li id="cron">
1.56 deraadt 89: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
90: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 91: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
92: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 93: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
1.60 bentley 96: <li id="miscfs">
1.56 deraadt 97: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
98: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 99: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
100: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
101: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 102: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
1.60 bentley 105: <li id="profil">
1.56 deraadt 106: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
107: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 108: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 109: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
1.60 bentley 112: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.56 deraadt 113: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
114: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 115: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
116: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.53 deraadt 117: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 118: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119: <p>
1.60 bentley 120: <li id="rc">
1.56 deraadt 121: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
122: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
124: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 125: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
1.60 bentley 128: <li id="chflags">
1.56 deraadt 129: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
130: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 131: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
132: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 133: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 134: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
135: <p>
1.60 bentley 136: <li id="nroff">
1.56 deraadt 137: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
138: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 139: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
140: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
141: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
142: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 143: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.60 bentley 146: <li id="fts">
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: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
150: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 151: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 152: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
153: <p>
1.60 bentley 154: <li id="tcpsack">
1.56 deraadt 155: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
156: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 157: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
158: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 159: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 160: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
161: <p>
1.60 bentley 162: <li id="ipsec1">
1.56 deraadt 163: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
164: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 165: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
166: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 167: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 168: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
169: <p>
1.60 bentley 170: <li id="bmap">
1.56 deraadt 171: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
172: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 173: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 174: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 175: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 176: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
177: <p>
1.60 bentley 178: <li id="pfkey">
1.56 deraadt 179: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
180: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 181: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 182: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 183: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
184: of time.
1.42 sthen 185: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 186: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
187: <p>
1.60 bentley 188: <li id="y2k">
1.24 henning 189: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 190: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
191: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
192: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 193: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 194: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
195: <p>
1.60 bentley 196: <li id="brooktree">
1.24 henning 197: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 198: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
199: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 200: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 201: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
202: <p>
1.60 bentley 203: <li id="macutils">
1.24 henning 204: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 205: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
206: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
207: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 208: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
209: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 210: <p>
1.60 bentley 211: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.24 henning 212: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 213: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
214: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 215: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 216: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
217: <p>
218: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 219: <p>
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