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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>,
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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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1.66 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
1.73 ! tj 80: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 82: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 83:
1.9 jufi 84: <ul>
1.60 bentley 85: <li id="cron">
1.56 deraadt 86: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font>
87: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 88: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
89: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.71 tb 90: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 91: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
92: <p>
1.60 bentley 93: <li id="miscfs">
1.56 deraadt 94: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong></font>
95: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 96: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
97: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
98: enabled by default).
1.71 tb 99: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 100: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
101: <p>
1.60 bentley 102: <li id="profil">
1.56 deraadt 103: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong></font>
104: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 105: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.71 tb 106: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
1.60 bentley 109: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.56 deraadt 110: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong></font>
111: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
113: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.71 tb 114: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 115: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
116: <p>
1.60 bentley 117: <li id="rc">
1.56 deraadt 118: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong></font>
119: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
121: to use -execdir.
1.71 tb 122: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
124: <p>
1.60 bentley 125: <li id="chflags">
1.56 deraadt 126: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong></font>
127: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 128: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
129: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.71 tb 130: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
1.60 bentley 133: <li id="nroff">
1.56 deraadt 134: <font color="#009000"><strong>SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong></font>
135: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
137: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
138: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
139: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.71 tb 140: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
142: <p>
1.60 bentley 143: <li id="fts">
1.56 deraadt 144: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
145: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 146: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
147: with a very large number of entries.
1.71 tb 148: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 149: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
150: <p>
1.60 bentley 151: <li id="tcpsack">
1.56 deraadt 152: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong></font>
153: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 154: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
155: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.71 tb 156: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 157: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
158: <p>
1.60 bentley 159: <li id="ipsec1">
1.56 deraadt 160: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
161: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 162: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
163: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.71 tb 164: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 165: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
166: <p>
1.60 bentley 167: <li id="bmap">
1.56 deraadt 168: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
169: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 170: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 171: from an ext2fs partition.
1.71 tb 172: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 173: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
174: <p>
1.60 bentley 175: <li id="pfkey">
1.56 deraadt 176: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font>
177: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 178: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 179: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 180: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
181: of time.
1.71 tb 182: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 183: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
184: <p>
1.60 bentley 185: <li id="y2k">
1.24 henning 186: <font color="#009000"><strong>Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 187: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
188: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
189: just a workaround.
1.71 tb 190: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 191: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
192: <p>
1.60 bentley 193: <li id="brooktree">
1.24 henning 194: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 195: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
196: the kernel crashed.
1.71 tb 197: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 198: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
199: <p>
1.60 bentley 200: <li id="macutils">
1.24 henning 201: <font color="#009000"><strong>INSTALL PROBLEM</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 202: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
203: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
204: FTP install directories. See
1.71 tb 205: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
206: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 207: <p>
1.60 bentley 208: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.24 henning 209: <font color="#009000"><strong>RELIABILITY FIX</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 210: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
211: unreliability.
1.71 tb 212: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 213: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
214: <p>
1.69 deraadt 215:
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