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1.78 bentley 19: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
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75:
1.7 ericj 76: <p>
1.72 tj 77: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
78: Each patch contains usage instructions.
79: All the following patches are also available in one
80: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
81: for convenience.
1.53 deraadt 82:
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1.72 tj 84: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.73 tj 85: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 86:
1.1 deraadt 87: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 88:
1.9 jufi 89: <ul>
1.79 deraadt 90:
1.60 bentley 91: <li id="cron">
1.79 deraadt 92: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 93: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 94: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
95: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.71 tb 96: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 97: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
98: <p>
1.79 deraadt 99:
1.60 bentley 100: <li id="miscfs">
1.79 deraadt 101: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 102: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 103: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
104: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
105: enabled by default).
1.71 tb 106: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
108: <p>
1.79 deraadt 109:
1.60 bentley 110: <li id="profil">
1.79 deraadt 111: <strong>003: SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 112: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 113: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.71 tb 114: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 115: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
116: <p>
1.79 deraadt 117:
1.60 bentley 118: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.79 deraadt 119: <strong>004: SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 120: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 121: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
122: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.71 tb 123: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
125: <p>
1.79 deraadt 126:
1.60 bentley 127: <li id="rc">
1.79 deraadt 128: <strong>005: SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 129: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 130: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
131: to use -execdir.
1.71 tb 132: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 133: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
134: <p>
1.79 deraadt 135:
1.60 bentley 136: <li id="chflags">
1.79 deraadt 137: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 138: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 139: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
140: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.71 tb 141: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
143: <p>
1.79 deraadt 144:
1.60 bentley 145: <li id="nroff">
1.79 deraadt 146: <strong>007: SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 147: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 148: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
149: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
150: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
151: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.71 tb 152: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 153: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154: <p>
1.79 deraadt 155:
1.60 bentley 156: <li id="fts">
1.79 deraadt 157: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 158: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 159: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
160: with a very large number of entries.
1.71 tb 161: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 162: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
163: <p>
1.79 deraadt 164:
1.60 bentley 165: <li id="tcpsack">
1.79 deraadt 166: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 167: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 168: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
169: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.71 tb 170: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 171: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
172: <p>
1.79 deraadt 173:
1.60 bentley 174: <li id="ipsec1">
1.79 deraadt 175: <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 176: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 177: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
178: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.71 tb 179: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 180: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
181: <p>
1.79 deraadt 182:
1.60 bentley 183: <li id="bmap">
1.79 deraadt 184: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 185: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 186: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 187: from an ext2fs partition.
1.71 tb 188: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 189: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
190: <p>
1.79 deraadt 191:
1.60 bentley 192: <li id="pfkey">
1.79 deraadt 193: <strong>012: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 194: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 195: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 196: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 197: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
198: of time.
1.71 tb 199: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 200: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
201: <p>
1.79 deraadt 202:
1.60 bentley 203: <li id="y2k">
1.79 deraadt 204: <strong>013: Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong><br>
1.3 deraadt 205: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
206: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
207: just a workaround.
1.71 tb 208: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 209: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
210: <p>
1.79 deraadt 211:
1.60 bentley 212: <li id="brooktree">
1.79 deraadt 213: <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.2 deraadt 214: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
215: the kernel crashed.
1.71 tb 216: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 217: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
218: <p>
1.79 deraadt 219:
1.60 bentley 220: <li id="macutils">
1.79 deraadt 221: <strong>015: INSTALL PROBLEM</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 222: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
223: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
224: FTP install directories. See
1.71 tb 225: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
226: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 227: <p>
1.79 deraadt 228:
1.60 bentley 229: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.79 deraadt 230: <strong>016: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 231: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
232: unreliability.
1.71 tb 233: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 234: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
235: <p>
1.69 deraadt 236:
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1.51 deraadt 238:
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