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1.68 tj 22: <font color="#e00000">2.5 Errata</font>
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1.19 deraadt 26: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.18 deraadt 27: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
28: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
29: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
30: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
31: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
32: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
33: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
34: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
35: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
36: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 37: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 38: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 39: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 40: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 41: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.52 deraadt 42: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
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1.31 deraadt 44: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.32 deraadt 45: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.33 deraadt 46: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.35 merdely 47: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.36 deraadt 48: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.37 deraadt 49: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.39 deraadt 50: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.40 deraadt 51: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.41 deraadt 52: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.43 deraadt 53: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.44 miod 54: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.45 nick 55: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.46 sthen 56: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.47 deraadt 57: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.48 deraadt 58: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.49 deraadt 59: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
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1.58 jsg 62: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
1.62 deraadt 63: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
1.65 deraadt 64: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
1.66 deraadt 65: <a href="errata58.html">5.8</a>,
1.69 deraadt 66: <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>,
1.72 ! tj 67: <a href="errata60.html">6.0</a>,
! 68: <a href="errata61.html">6.1</a>.
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1.7 ericj 71: <p>
1.72 ! tj 72: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
! 73: Each patch contains usage instructions.
! 74: All the following patches are also available in one
! 75: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
! 76: for convenience.
1.53 deraadt 77:
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1.72 ! tj 79: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
! 80: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>, which is maintained for one year
! 81: after release.
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1.1 deraadt 83: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 84:
1.9 jufi 85: <ul>
1.60 bentley 86: <li id="cron">
1.56 deraadt 87: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
88: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 89: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
90: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.71 tb 91: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 92: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
93: <p>
1.60 bentley 94: <li id="miscfs">
1.56 deraadt 95: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
96: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 97: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
98: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
99: enabled by default).
1.71 tb 100: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 101: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
102: <p>
1.60 bentley 103: <li id="profil">
1.56 deraadt 104: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
105: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 106: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.71 tb 107: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 108: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109: <p>
1.60 bentley 110: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.56 deraadt 111: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
112: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
114: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.71 tb 115: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <p>
1.60 bentley 118: <li id="rc">
1.56 deraadt 119: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
120: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 121: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
122: to use -execdir.
1.71 tb 123: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
1.60 bentley 126: <li id="chflags">
1.56 deraadt 127: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
128: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
130: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.71 tb 131: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 132: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
133: <p>
1.60 bentley 134: <li id="nroff">
1.56 deraadt 135: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
136: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 137: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
138: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
139: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
140: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.71 tb 141: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
143: <p>
1.60 bentley 144: <li id="fts">
1.56 deraadt 145: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
146: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 147: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
148: with a very large number of entries.
1.71 tb 149: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 150: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
151: <p>
1.60 bentley 152: <li id="tcpsack">
1.56 deraadt 153: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
154: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 155: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
156: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.71 tb 157: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 158: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
159: <p>
1.60 bentley 160: <li id="ipsec1">
1.56 deraadt 161: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
162: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 163: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
164: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.71 tb 165: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 166: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
167: <p>
1.60 bentley 168: <li id="bmap">
1.56 deraadt 169: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
170: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 171: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 172: from an ext2fs partition.
1.71 tb 173: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 174: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
175: <p>
1.60 bentley 176: <li id="pfkey">
1.56 deraadt 177: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
178: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 179: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 180: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 181: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
182: of time.
1.71 tb 183: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 184: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
185: <p>
1.60 bentley 186: <li id="y2k">
1.24 henning 187: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 188: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
189: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
190: just a workaround.
1.71 tb 191: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 192: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
193: <p>
1.60 bentley 194: <li id="brooktree">
1.24 henning 195: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 196: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
197: the kernel crashed.
1.71 tb 198: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 199: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
200: <p>
1.60 bentley 201: <li id="macutils">
1.24 henning 202: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 203: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
204: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
205: FTP install directories. See
1.71 tb 206: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
207: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 208: <p>
1.60 bentley 209: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.24 henning 210: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 211: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
212: unreliability.
1.71 tb 213: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 214: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
215: <p>
1.69 deraadt 216:
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