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1.68 tj 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>,
1.69 ! deraadt 68: <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>,
! 69: <a href="errata60.html">6.0</a>.
1.18 deraadt 70: <br>
1.1 deraadt 71: <hr>
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1.42 sthen 73: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 74: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
75: This file is updated once a day.
1.53 deraadt 76: <p>
1.1 deraadt 77:
1.53 deraadt 78: The patches below are available in CVS via the
79: <code>OPENBSD_2_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 80: <p>
1.53 deraadt 81:
1.20 deraadt 82: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.53 deraadt 83: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
84: <p>
1.7 ericj 85:
1.1 deraadt 86: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 87:
1.9 jufi 88: <ul>
1.60 bentley 89: <li id="cron">
1.56 deraadt 90: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
91: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 92: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
93: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.42 sthen 94: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 95: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
96: <p>
1.60 bentley 97: <li id="miscfs">
1.56 deraadt 98: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
99: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 100: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
101: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
102: enabled by default).
1.42 sthen 103: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 104: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
105: <p>
1.60 bentley 106: <li id="profil">
1.56 deraadt 107: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
108: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 109: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.42 sthen 110: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 111: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
112: <p>
1.60 bentley 113: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.56 deraadt 114: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
115: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 116: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
117: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.53 deraadt 118: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 119: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <p>
1.60 bentley 121: <li id="rc">
1.56 deraadt 122: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
123: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 124: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
125: to use -execdir.
1.42 sthen 126: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 127: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
128: <p>
1.60 bentley 129: <li id="chflags">
1.56 deraadt 130: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
131: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 132: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
133: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.42 sthen 134: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
1.60 bentley 137: <li id="nroff">
1.56 deraadt 138: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
139: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 140: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
141: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
142: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
143: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.42 sthen 144: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 145: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
146: <p>
1.60 bentley 147: <li id="fts">
1.56 deraadt 148: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
149: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 150: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
151: with a very large number of entries.
1.42 sthen 152: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <p>
1.60 bentley 155: <li id="tcpsack">
1.56 deraadt 156: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
157: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
159: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.42 sthen 160: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <p>
1.60 bentley 163: <li id="ipsec1">
1.56 deraadt 164: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
165: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 166: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
167: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.42 sthen 168: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 169: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
170: <p>
1.60 bentley 171: <li id="bmap">
1.56 deraadt 172: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
173: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 174: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 175: from an ext2fs partition.
1.42 sthen 176: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
178: <p>
1.60 bentley 179: <li id="pfkey">
1.56 deraadt 180: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
181: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 182: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 183: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 184: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
185: of time.
1.42 sthen 186: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 187: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
188: <p>
1.60 bentley 189: <li id="y2k">
1.24 henning 190: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 191: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
192: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
193: just a workaround.
1.42 sthen 194: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 195: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
196: <p>
1.60 bentley 197: <li id="brooktree">
1.24 henning 198: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 199: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
200: the kernel crashed.
1.42 sthen 201: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 202: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
203: <p>
1.60 bentley 204: <li id="macutils">
1.24 henning 205: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 206: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
207: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
208: FTP install directories. See
1.42 sthen 209: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
210: http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 211: <p>
1.60 bentley 212: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.24 henning 213: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 214: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
215: unreliability.
1.42 sthen 216: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 217: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
218: <p>
1.69 ! deraadt 219:
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