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1.78 bentley 19: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
20: 2.5 Errata
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1.1 deraadt 23:
1.19 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.81 schwarze 25: <a href="errata20.html">2.0</a>,
1.18 deraadt 26: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
27: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
28: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
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30: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
31: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
32: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
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34: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
35: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.22 deraadt 36: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.23 david 37: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.27 david 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.28 miod 39: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.29 deraadt 40: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
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1.7 ericj 78: <p>
1.72 tj 79: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
80: Each patch contains usage instructions.
81: All the following patches are also available in one
82: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
83: for convenience.
1.53 deraadt 84:
85: <p>
1.72 tj 86: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.73 tj 87: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.7 ericj 88:
1.1 deraadt 89: <hr>
1.53 deraadt 90:
1.9 jufi 91: <ul>
1.79 deraadt 92:
1.60 bentley 93: <li id="cron">
1.79 deraadt 94: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 95: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 96: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
97: run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1.71 tb 98: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
1.1 deraadt 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
100: <p>
1.79 deraadt 101:
1.60 bentley 102: <li id="miscfs">
1.79 deraadt 103: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 104: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 105: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
106: of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
107: enabled by default).
1.71 tb 108: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 109: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
110: <p>
1.79 deraadt 111:
1.60 bentley 112: <li id="profil">
1.79 deraadt 113: <strong>003: SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 114: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 115: Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
1.71 tb 116: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
1.1 deraadt 117: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
118: <p>
1.79 deraadt 119:
1.60 bentley 120: <li id="ipsec_in_use">
1.79 deraadt 121: <strong>004: SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 122: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
124: as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1.71 tb 125: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
1.1 deraadt 126: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127: <p>
1.79 deraadt 128:
1.60 bentley 129: <li id="rc">
1.79 deraadt 130: <strong>005: SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 131: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 132: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
133: to use -execdir.
1.71 tb 134: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
1.1 deraadt 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136: <p>
1.79 deraadt 137:
1.60 bentley 138: <li id="chflags">
1.79 deraadt 139: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 140: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 141: Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
142: block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
1.71 tb 143: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.79 deraadt 146:
1.60 bentley 147: <li id="nroff">
1.79 deraadt 148: <strong>007: SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 149: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 150: Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
151: to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
152: whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
153: BUGTRAQ as if it is.
1.71 tb 154: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
1.1 deraadt 155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
156: <p>
1.79 deraadt 157:
1.60 bentley 158: <li id="fts">
1.79 deraadt 159: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 160: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 161: Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
162: with a very large number of entries.
1.71 tb 163: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
1.1 deraadt 164: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
165: <p>
1.79 deraadt 166:
1.60 bentley 167: <li id="tcpsack">
1.79 deraadt 168: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
1.56 deraadt 169: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 170: Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
171: failure to retransmit correctly.
1.71 tb 172: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
1.1 deraadt 173: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
174: <p>
1.79 deraadt 175:
1.60 bentley 176: <li id="ipsec1">
1.79 deraadt 177: <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 178: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 179: Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
180: IPSEC ESP tunnel.
1.71 tb 181: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
1.1 deraadt 182: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
183: <p>
1.79 deraadt 184:
1.60 bentley 185: <li id="bmap">
1.79 deraadt 186: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 187: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.50 deraadt 188: A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
1.1 deraadt 189: from an ext2fs partition.
1.71 tb 190: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
1.1 deraadt 191: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
192: <p>
1.79 deraadt 193:
1.60 bentley 194: <li id="pfkey">
1.79 deraadt 195: <strong>012: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
1.56 deraadt 196: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 197: PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
1.11 jsyn 198: system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
1.1 deraadt 199: will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
200: of time.
1.71 tb 201: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
1.1 deraadt 202: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
203: <p>
1.79 deraadt 204:
1.60 bentley 205: <li id="y2k">
1.79 deraadt 206: <strong>013: Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong><br>
1.3 deraadt 207: This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
208: release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
209: just a workaround.
1.71 tb 210: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
1.3 deraadt 211: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
212: <p>
1.79 deraadt 213:
1.60 bentley 214: <li id="brooktree">
1.79 deraadt 215: <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.2 deraadt 216: If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
217: the kernel crashed.
1.71 tb 218: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
1.2 deraadt 219: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
220: <p>
1.79 deraadt 221:
1.60 bentley 222: <li id="macutils">
1.79 deraadt 223: <strong>015: INSTALL PROBLEM</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 224: The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
225: the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
226: FTP install directories. See
1.71 tb 227: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
228: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
1.1 deraadt 229: <p>
1.79 deraadt 230:
1.60 bentley 231: <li id="powerpc_trap">
1.79 deraadt 232: <strong>016: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
1.1 deraadt 233: Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
234: unreliability.
1.71 tb 235: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
1.53 deraadt 236: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
237: <p>
1.69 deraadt 238:
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1.51 deraadt 240:
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