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1.19 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
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76:
1.7 ericj 77: <p>
1.72 tj 78: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
79: Each patch contains usage instructions.
80: All the following patches are also available in one
81: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
82: for convenience.
1.53 deraadt 83:
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1.72 tj 85: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.73 tj 86: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 87:
1.1 deraadt 88: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 89:
1.9 jufi 90: <ul>
1.79 deraadt 91:
1.60 bentley 92: <li id="cron">
1.79 deraadt 93: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 94: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 95: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
96: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.71 tb 97: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
99: <p>
1.79 deraadt 100:
1.60 bentley 101: <li id="miscfs">
1.79 deraadt 102: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 103: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 104: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
105: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
106: enabled by default).
1.71 tb 107: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 108: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109: <p>
1.79 deraadt 110:
1.60 bentley 111: <li id="profil">
1.79 deraadt 112: <strong>003: SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 113: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.71 tb 115: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
117: <p>
1.79 deraadt 118:
1.60 bentley 119: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.79 deraadt 120: <strong>004: SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 121: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 122: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
123: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.71 tb 124: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
126: <p>
1.79 deraadt 127:
1.60 bentley 128: <li id="rc">
1.79 deraadt 129: <strong>005: SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 130: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 131: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
132: to use -execdir.
1.71 tb 133: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 134: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
135: <p>
1.79 deraadt 136:
1.60 bentley 137: <li id="chflags">
1.79 deraadt 138: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 139: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 140: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
141: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.71 tb 142: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 143: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
144: <p>
1.79 deraadt 145:
1.60 bentley 146: <li id="nroff">
1.79 deraadt 147: <strong>007: SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 148: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 149: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
150: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
151: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
152: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.71 tb 153: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 154: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
155: <p>
1.79 deraadt 156:
1.60 bentley 157: <li id="fts">
1.79 deraadt 158: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 159: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 160: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
161: with a very large number of entries.
1.71 tb 162: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 163: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
164: <p>
1.79 deraadt 165:
1.60 bentley 166: <li id="tcpsack">
1.79 deraadt 167: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 168: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 169: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
170: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.71 tb 171: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 172: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
173: <p>
1.79 deraadt 174:
1.60 bentley 175: <li id="ipsec1">
1.79 deraadt 176: <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 177: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 178: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
179: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.71 tb 180: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 181: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
182: <p>
1.79 deraadt 183:
1.60 bentley 184: <li id="bmap">
1.79 deraadt 185: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 186: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 187: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 188: from an ext2fs partition.
1.71 tb 189: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 190: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
191: <p>
1.79 deraadt 192:
1.60 bentley 193: <li id="pfkey">
1.79 deraadt 194: <strong>012: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 195: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 196: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 197: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 198: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
199: of time.
1.71 tb 200: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 201: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
202: <p>
1.79 deraadt 203:
1.60 bentley 204: <li id="y2k">
1.79 deraadt 205: <strong>013: Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong><br>
1.3 deraadt 206: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
207: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
208: just a workaround.
1.71 tb 209: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 210: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
211: <p>
1.79 deraadt 212:
1.60 bentley 213: <li id="brooktree">
1.79 deraadt 214: <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.2 deraadt 215: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
216: the kernel crashed.
1.71 tb 217: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 218: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
219: <p>
1.79 deraadt 220:
1.60 bentley 221: <li id="macutils">
1.79 deraadt 222: <strong>015: INSTALL PROBLEM</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 223: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
224: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
225: FTP install directories. See
1.71 tb 226: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
227: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 228: <p>
1.79 deraadt 229:
1.60 bentley 230: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.79 deraadt 231: <strong>016: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 232: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
233: unreliability.
1.71 tb 234: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 235: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
236: <p>
1.69 deraadt 237:
1.53 deraadt 238: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 239:
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