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1.1 deraadt 18: This is the OpenBSD 2.6 release errata & patch list:
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22: <hr>
1.9 jason 23: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.21 deraadt 24: <br>
1.22 deraadt 25: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.21 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>,
29: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
30: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
31: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
32: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
33: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
34: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
35: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 36: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.26 david 37: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 38: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.31 ! miod 39: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
! 40: <a href="errata.html">3.6</a>.
1.21 deraadt 41: <br>
1.1 deraadt 42: <hr>
43:
1.24 naddy 44: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 45: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
46: This file is updated once a day.
47:
1.10 ericj 48: <p>
1.23 deraadt 49: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
1.10 ericj 50: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
51:
1.1 deraadt 52: <hr>
1.27 henning 53: <a name="all"></a>
54: <h3><font color="#e00000">All architectures</font></h3>
1.12 jufi 55: <ul>
1.27 henning 56: <li><a name="semconfig"></a>
57: <font color="#009000"><strong>024: SECURITY FIX: May 26, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.7 deraadt 58: Kernel contained an undocumented system call used to lock semaphore operations
59: while they were being sampled by the ipcs(1) command. This locking could be
1.8 deraadt 60: used as a local denial of service attack which would block the exiting of
61: processes which had semaphore resources allocated. Processes not using
62: semaphores are not affected, so the actual effect is very minimal.<br>
1.24 naddy 63: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/024_sysv_sem.patch">
1.7 deraadt 64: A jumbo patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
65: <p>
1.27 henning 66: <li><a name="ipf"></a>
67: <font color="#009000"><strong>023: SECURITY FIX: May 25, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.14 horacio 68: A misuse of ipf(8)
1.4 kjell 69: <i>keep-state</i> rules can result in firewall rules being
1.5 deraadt 70: bypassed.
71: This patch also includes fixes for an unaligned timestamp issue,
1.4 kjell 72: and reliability fixes for ipmon and the in-kernel ftp proxy.<br>
1.24 naddy 73: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/023_ipf.patch">
1.4 kjell 74: A jumbo patch exists</a>, which remedies this problem, and updates ipf
75: to version 3.3.16.
76: <p>
1.27 henning 77: <li><a name="xlockmore"></a>
78: <font color="#009000"><strong>022: SECURITY FIX: May 25, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 79: xlockmore has a localhost attack against it which allows recovery of the encrypted
80: hash of the root password. The damage to systems using DES passwords from this
81: attack is pretty heavy, but to systems with a well-chosen root password under
82: blowfish encoding
1.24 naddy 83: (see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3">
1.2 deraadt 84: crypt(3)</a>)
85: the impact is much reduced.<br>
86: (Aside: We do not consider this a localhost root hole in the default install,
87: since we have not seen a fast blowfish cracker yet ;-)<br>
1.24 naddy 88: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/022_xlockmore.patch">
1.6 deraadt 89: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem. This is the 2nd patch designed to solve this problem.</a>
1.2 deraadt 90: <p>
1.27 henning 91: <li><a name="rzsz"></a>
92: <font color="#009000"><strong>021: RZSZ SNOOPING: Jan 31, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 93: The rzsz port was removed from the ports collection, as it collects and
94: sends user information to a designated email address, effectively spying on
95: you. <em>It is recommended that you remove this package if you installed
96: it</em>.
97: <p>
1.27 henning 98: <li><a name="syslog"></a>
99: <font color="#009000"><strong>020: LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT: Jan 26, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 100: syslog(3) would not try to reopen the socket, thus, nightly newsyslog(8)
101: would cause syslogd(8) to not see new messages.
1.24 naddy 102: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/020_syslog.patch">
1.1 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
104: <p>
1.27 henning 105: <li><a name="nsphy"></a>
106: <font color="#009000"><strong>019: DRIVER IMPROVEMENT: Jan 20, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 107: Intel fxp cards with National Semiconductor PHYs (nsphy) have trouble
108: negotiating and maintaining 100Mb link integrity.<br>
1.24 naddy 109: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/019_nsphy.patch">
1.1 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
111: <p>
1.27 henning 112: <li><a name="procfs"></a>
113: <font color="#009000"><strong>018: SECURITY FIX: Jan 20, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 114: Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are vulnerable
115: to having the stderr output of setuid processes directed onto
116: a pre-seeked descriptor onto the stack in their own procfs memory.<br>
117: Note that procfs is not mounted by default in OpenBSD.<br>
1.24 naddy 118: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/018_procfs.patch">
1.1 deraadt 119: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
120: <p>
1.27 henning 121: <li><a name="aty2k"></a>
122: <font color="#009000"><strong>015: Y2K FIX: Jan 9, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 123: The at(1) command was unable to parse some kinds of dates.<br>
1.24 naddy 124: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/015_aty2k.patch">
1.1 deraadt 125: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
126: <p>
1.27 henning 127: <li><a name="addusery2k"></a>
128: <font color="#009000"><strong>013: Y2K FIX: Jan 3, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 129: A minor problem in the logging support for the adduser(8) command.<br>
1.24 naddy 130: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/013_addusery2k.patch">
1.1 deraadt 131: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
132: <p>
1.27 henning 133: <li><a name="3c900b"></a>
134: <font color="#009000"><strong>012: DRIVER IMPROVEMENT: Jan 3, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 135: The 3C900B-TPO fails to select the correct media type (it never sees or
136: sends packets).<br>
1.24 naddy 137: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/012_3c900b.patch">
1.1 deraadt 138: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
139: <p>
1.27 henning 140: <li><a name="poll"></a>
141: <font color="#009000"><strong>011: SECURITY FIX: Dec 4, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 142: Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.<br>
1.24 naddy 143: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/011_poll.patch">
1.1 deraadt 144: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
145: <p>
1.27 henning 146: <li><a name="sendmail"></a>
147: <font color="#009000"><strong>010: SECURITY FIX: Dec 4, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 148: Sendmail had a race in aliases file handling, which this patch fixes.<br>
1.24 naddy 149: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/010_sendmail.patch">
1.1 deraadt 150: A source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
151: <p>
1.27 henning 152: <li><a name="atapijumbo"></a>
153: <font color="#009000"><strong>009: DRIVER IMPROVEMENTS: Dec 4, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 154: Various improvements have been made to the IDE/ATAPI subsystem since
155: the 2.6 release shipped.<br>
156: Some of these improvements make some recalcitrant devices work much better.
1.24 naddy 157: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/009_atapi.patch"><br>
1.1 deraadt 158: Revision 1 of this jumbo source code patch exists.</a><br>
159: <p>
1.27 henning 160: <li><a name="sslUSA"></a>
161: <font color="#009000"><strong>016: SECURITY FIX: Dec 2, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 162: A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
163: USA version of the libssl package (called <strong>sslUSA</strong>, is
164: possibly exploitable in isakmpd if SSL/RSA features
165: are enabled or used.<br>
1.24 naddy 166: <a href="http://www.openssh.com">OpenSSH</a> and httpd (with -DSSL) are not
1.1 deraadt 167: vulnerable.<br>
168: <strong>NOTE: International users using the ssl26 package are not affected.</strong>
169: <p>
170: To check what package you are using, use
171: <pre>
172: <b>#</b> pkg_info sslUSA26
173: </pre>
174: The patched library says:<br>
175: "ssl26.1 USA-only non-commercial crypto libs incl. SSL & RSA"
176: <p>
177: Non-commercial USA users who installed the ssl package before December 3
178: should upgrade their <strong>sslUSA26</strong> package using:<br>
179: <pre>
180: <b>#</b> pkg_delete sslUSA26
181: <b>#</b> pkg_add -v sslUSA26.tar.gz
182: </pre>
183: Using the new <strong>sslUSA26.tar.gz</strong> files which have been placed
184: on the FTP mirrors.<br>
185: <a href=advisories/sslUSA>For more information, see the advisory</a>.<br>
186: <strong>NOTE: this problem turned out to not be unexploitable in OpenSSH.</strong>
187: <p>
1.27 henning 188: <li><a name="fortran"></a>
189: <font color="#009000"><strong>017: FUNCTIONALITY ADDITION: Nov 14, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 190: Fortran doesn't work right. The file /usr/include/g2c.h is missing in the
191: release.<br>
1.24 naddy 192: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/008_fortran.patch">
1.1 deraadt 193: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a><br>
194: The patch fixes the source tree and describes how to properly add
1.24 naddy 195: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/g2c.h">
1.1 deraadt 196: the include file</a> to your system.
197: <p>
1.27 henning 198: <li><a name="sshjumbo"></a>
199: <font color="#009000"><strong>005: FUNCTIONALITY ADDITION: Nov 11, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 200: Various OpenSSH improvements have been made since the 2.6 release shipped.<br>
201: To resolve the various (non-security related) features which users may want,
202: we are making a jumbo patch available. <strong>This is now at VERSION FOUR.</strong><br>
1.24 naddy 203: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/005_sshjumbo.patch">
1.1 deraadt 204: Revision 4 of this jumbo source code patch exists.</a><br>
205: <strong>NOTE: /etc/sshd_config and /etc/ssh_config may need changes.</strong>
206: <p>
1.27 henning 207: <li><a name="m4"></a>
208: <font color="#009000"><strong>003: FUNCTIONALITY FIX: Nov 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 209: m4 is quite broken in the 2.6 release.<br>
1.24 naddy 210: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/003_m4.patch">
1.1 deraadt 211: The 3rd version of the source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
212: <p>
1.27 henning 213: <li><a name="ifmedia"></a>
214: <font color="#009000"><strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Nov 9, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 215: Any user can change interface media configurations.<br>
1.24 naddy 216: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/002_ifmedia.patch">
1.1 deraadt 217: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
218: <p>
1.27 henning 219: <li><a name="newsyslog"></a>
220: <font color="#009000"><strong>001: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 8, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 221: A race condition in newsyslog(8) can cause errors in log file rotation.<br>
1.24 naddy 222: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/001_newsyslog.patch">
1.1 deraadt 223: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
224: <p>
225: </ul>
226: <p>
1.27 henning 227: <a name="i386"></a>
228: <h3><font color="#e00000">i386</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 229: <ul>
230: <li>No problems identified yet.
231: </ul>
232: <p>
1.27 henning 233: <a name="mac68k"></a>
234: <h3><font color="#e00000">mac68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 235: <ul>
1.27 henning 236: <li><a name="m68k_locore"></a>
237: <a name="mac68k_locore"></a>
238: <font color="#009000"><strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 239: All m68k kernels can possibly be crashed by a user.<br>
1.24 naddy 240: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/m68k/007_locore.patch">
1.1 deraadt 241: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
242: <p>
243: </ul>
244: <p>
1.27 henning 245: <a name="sparc"></a>
246: <h3><font color="#e00000">sparc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 247: <ul>
1.27 henning 248: <li><a name="eepromy2k"></a>
249: <font color="#009000"><strong>014: Y2K FIX: Jan 3, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 250: A minor problem; the sparc eeprom(8) command is not Y2K compliant.<br>
1.24 naddy 251: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/sparc/014_eepromy2k.patch">
1.1 deraadt 252: Revision 2 of the source code patch exists, which remedies this problem.</a>
253: <p>
1.27 henning 254: <li><a name="sparc_locore"></a>
255: <font color="#009000"><strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 256: The sparc kernel can be crashed by a user.<br>
1.24 naddy 257: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/sparc/004_locore.patch">
1.1 deraadt 258: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
259: <p>
260: </ul>
261: <p>
1.27 henning 262: <a name="amiga"></a>
263: <h3><font color="#e00000">amiga</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 264: <ul>
1.27 henning 265: <li><a name="amiga_locore"></a>
266: <font color="#009000"><strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 267: All m68k kernels can possibly be crashed by a user.<br>
1.24 naddy 268: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/m68k/007_locore.patch">
1.1 deraadt 269: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
270: <p>
271: </ul>
272: <p>
1.27 henning 273: <a name="pmax"></a>
274: <h3><font color="#e00000">pmax</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 275: <ul>
276: <li>No problems identified yet.
277: </ul>
278: <p>
1.27 henning 279: <a name="arc"></a>
280: <h3><font color="#e00000">arc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 281: <ul>
282: <li>No problems identified yet.
283: </ul>
284: <p>
1.27 henning 285: <a name="alpha"></a>
286: <h3><font color="#e00000">alpha</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 287: <ul>
1.27 henning 288: <li><a name="alpha_locore"></a>
289: <font color="#009000"><strong>006: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 13, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 290: The alpha kernel can possibly be crashed by a user.<br>
1.24 naddy 291: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/alpha/006_locore.patch">
1.1 deraadt 292: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
293: <p>
294: </ul>
295: <p>
1.27 henning 296: <a name="hp300"></a>
297: <h3><font color="#e00000">hp300</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 298: <ul>
1.27 henning 299: <li><a name="hp300_locore"></a>
300: <font color="#009000"><strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 301: All m68k kernels can possibly be crashed by a user.<br>
1.24 naddy 302: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/m68k/007_locore.patch">
1.1 deraadt 303: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
304: <p>
305: </ul>
306: <p>
1.27 henning 307: <a name="mvme68k"></a>
308: <h3><font color="#e00000">mvme68k</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 309: <ul>
1.27 henning 310: <li><a name="mvme68k_locore"></a>
311: <font color="#009000"><strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 12, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 312: All m68k kernels can possibly be crashed by a user.<br>
1.24 naddy 313: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/m68k/007_locore.patch">
1.1 deraadt 314: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
315: <p>
316: </ul>
317: <p>
1.27 henning 318: <a name="powerpc"></a>
319: <h3><font color="#e00000">powerpc</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 320: <ul>
321: <li>No problems identified yet.
322: </ul>
323: <br>
324:
325: <hr>
1.9 jason 326: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.21 deraadt 327: <br>
1.22 deraadt 328: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.21 deraadt 329: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
330: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
331: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
332: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
333: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
334: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
335: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
336: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
337: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
338: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.25 deraadt 339: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.26 david 340: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.30 david 341: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.31 ! miod 342: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
! 343: <a href="errata.html">3.6</a>.
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