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1.78 bentley 19: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
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70: <a href="errata65.html">6.5</a>.
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1.7 ericj 73: <p>
1.72 tj 74: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
75: Each patch contains usage instructions.
76: All the following patches are also available in one
77: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
78: for convenience.
1.53 deraadt 79:
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1.72 tj 81: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.73 tj 82: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
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1.1 deraadt 84: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 85:
1.9 jufi 86: <ul>
1.79 ! deraadt 87:
1.60 bentley 88: <li id="cron">
1.79 ! deraadt 89: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 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.
1.71 tb 93: <a href="https://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>
1.79 ! deraadt 96:
1.60 bentley 97: <li id="miscfs">
1.79 ! deraadt 98: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 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).
1.71 tb 103: <a href="https://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>
1.79 ! deraadt 106:
1.60 bentley 107: <li id="profil">
1.79 ! deraadt 108: <strong>003: SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 109: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 110: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.71 tb 111: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 112: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
113: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 114:
1.60 bentley 115: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.79 ! deraadt 116: <strong>004: SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 117: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 118: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
119: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.71 tb 120: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 121: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
122: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 123:
1.60 bentley 124: <li id="rc">
1.79 ! deraadt 125: <strong>005: SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 126: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 127: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
128: to use -execdir.
1.71 tb 129: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 130: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
131: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 132:
1.60 bentley 133: <li id="chflags">
1.79 ! deraadt 134: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 135: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 136: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
137: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.71 tb 138: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 139: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
140: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 141:
1.60 bentley 142: <li id="nroff">
1.79 ! deraadt 143: <strong>007: SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 144: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 145: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
146: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
147: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
148: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.71 tb 149: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 150: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
151: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 152:
1.60 bentley 153: <li id="fts">
1.79 ! deraadt 154: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 155: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 156: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
157: with a very large number of entries.
1.71 tb 158: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 159: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
160: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 161:
1.60 bentley 162: <li id="tcpsack">
1.79 ! deraadt 163: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 164: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 165: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
166: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.71 tb 167: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 168: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
169: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 170:
1.60 bentley 171: <li id="ipsec1">
1.79 ! deraadt 172: <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 173: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 174: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
175: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.71 tb 176: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
178: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 179:
1.60 bentley 180: <li id="bmap">
1.79 ! deraadt 181: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 182: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 183: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 184: from an ext2fs partition.
1.71 tb 185: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 186: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
187: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 188:
1.60 bentley 189: <li id="pfkey">
1.79 ! deraadt 190: <strong>012: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 191: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 192: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 193: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 194: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
195: of time.
1.71 tb 196: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 197: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
198: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 199:
1.60 bentley 200: <li id="y2k">
1.79 ! deraadt 201: <strong>013: Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong><br>
1.3 deraadt 202: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
203: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
204: just a workaround.
1.71 tb 205: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 206: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
207: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 208:
1.60 bentley 209: <li id="brooktree">
1.79 ! deraadt 210: <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.2 deraadt 211: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
212: the kernel crashed.
1.71 tb 213: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 214: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
215: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 216:
1.60 bentley 217: <li id="macutils">
1.79 ! deraadt 218: <strong>015: INSTALL PROBLEM</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 219: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
220: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
221: FTP install directories. See
1.71 tb 222: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
223: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 224: <p>
1.79 ! deraadt 225:
1.60 bentley 226: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.79 ! deraadt 227: <strong>016: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 228: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
229: unreliability.
1.71 tb 230: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 231: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
232: <p>
1.69 deraadt 233:
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