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74:
1.7 ericj 75: <p>
1.72 tj 76: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
77: Each patch contains usage instructions.
78: All the following patches are also available in one
79: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
80: for convenience.
1.53 deraadt 81:
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1.72 tj 83: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.73 tj 84: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 85:
1.1 deraadt 86: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 87:
1.9 jufi 88: <ul>
1.79 deraadt 89:
1.60 bentley 90: <li id="cron">
1.79 deraadt 91: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 92: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
94: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.71 tb 95: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 96: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
97: <p>
1.79 deraadt 98:
1.60 bentley 99: <li id="miscfs">
1.79 deraadt 100: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 101: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 102: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
103: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
104: enabled by default).
1.71 tb 105: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 106: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
107: <p>
1.79 deraadt 108:
1.60 bentley 109: <li id="profil">
1.79 deraadt 110: <strong>003: SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 111: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 112: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.71 tb 113: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 114: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
115: <p>
1.79 deraadt 116:
1.60 bentley 117: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.79 deraadt 118: <strong>004: SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 119: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 120: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
121: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.71 tb 122: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
124: <p>
1.79 deraadt 125:
1.60 bentley 126: <li id="rc">
1.79 deraadt 127: <strong>005: SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 128: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
130: to use -execdir.
1.71 tb 131: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 132: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
133: <p>
1.79 deraadt 134:
1.60 bentley 135: <li id="chflags">
1.79 deraadt 136: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 137: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 138: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
139: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.71 tb 140: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
142: <p>
1.79 deraadt 143:
1.60 bentley 144: <li id="nroff">
1.79 deraadt 145: <strong>007: SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 146: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 147: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
148: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
149: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
150: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.71 tb 151: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 152: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
153: <p>
1.79 deraadt 154:
1.60 bentley 155: <li id="fts">
1.79 deraadt 156: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 157: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
159: with a very large number of entries.
1.71 tb 160: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 161: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
162: <p>
1.79 deraadt 163:
1.60 bentley 164: <li id="tcpsack">
1.79 deraadt 165: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 166: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 167: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
168: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.71 tb 169: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 170: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
171: <p>
1.79 deraadt 172:
1.60 bentley 173: <li id="ipsec1">
1.79 deraadt 174: <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 175: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 176: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
177: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.71 tb 178: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 179: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
180: <p>
1.79 deraadt 181:
1.60 bentley 182: <li id="bmap">
1.79 deraadt 183: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 184: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 185: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 186: from an ext2fs partition.
1.71 tb 187: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 188: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
189: <p>
1.79 deraadt 190:
1.60 bentley 191: <li id="pfkey">
1.79 deraadt 192: <strong>012: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 193: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 194: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 195: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 196: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
197: of time.
1.71 tb 198: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 199: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
200: <p>
1.79 deraadt 201:
1.60 bentley 202: <li id="y2k">
1.79 deraadt 203: <strong>013: Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong><br>
1.3 deraadt 204: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
205: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
206: just a workaround.
1.71 tb 207: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 208: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
209: <p>
1.79 deraadt 210:
1.60 bentley 211: <li id="brooktree">
1.79 deraadt 212: <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.2 deraadt 213: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
214: the kernel crashed.
1.71 tb 215: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 216: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
217: <p>
1.79 deraadt 218:
1.60 bentley 219: <li id="macutils">
1.79 deraadt 220: <strong>015: INSTALL PROBLEM</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 221: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
222: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
223: FTP install directories. See
1.71 tb 224: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
225: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 226: <p>
1.79 deraadt 227:
1.60 bentley 228: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.79 deraadt 229: <strong>016: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 230: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
231: unreliability.
1.71 tb 232: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 233: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
234: <p>
1.69 deraadt 235:
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