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76:
1.10 ericj 77: <p>
1.77 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/2.6.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
82: for convenience.
1.56 deraadt 83:
84: <p>
1.77 tj 85: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.78 tj 86: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.10 ericj 87:
1.1 deraadt 88: <hr>
1.56 deraadt 89:
1.12 jufi 90: <ul>
1.86 deraadt 91:
92: <li id="newsyslog">
93: <strong>001: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 8, 1999</strong>
94: <i>All architectures</i><br>
95: A race condition in newsyslog(8) can cause errors in log file rotation.<br>
96: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/001_newsyslog.patch">
97: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
98: <p>
99:
100: <li id="ifmedia">
101: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Nov 9, 1999</strong>
1.59 deraadt 102: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 103: Any user can change interface media configurations.<br>
104: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/002_ifmedia.patch">
1.56 deraadt 105: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7 deraadt 106: <p>
1.86 deraadt 107:
108: <li id="m4">
109: <strong>003: FUNCTIONALITY FIX: Nov 10, 1999</strong>
1.59 deraadt 110: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 111: m4 is quite broken in the 2.6 release.<br>
112: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/003_m4.patch">
113: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
114: This is the 3rd revision of the patch.
115: <p>
116:
117: <li id="sparc_locore">
118: <strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 12, 1999</strong>
119: <i>sparc only</i><br>
120: The sparc kernel can be crashed by a user.<br>
121: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/sparc/004_locore.patch">
1.56 deraadt 122: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.4 kjell 123: <p>
1.86 deraadt 124:
125: <li id="sshjumbo">
126: <strong>005: FUNCTIONALITY ADDITION: Nov 11, 1999</strong>
1.59 deraadt 127: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 128: Various OpenSSH improvements have been made since the 2.6 release shipped.<br>
129: To resolve the various (non-security related) features which users may want,
130: we are making a jumbo patch available. <b>This is now at VERSION FOUR.</b><br>
131: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/005_sshjumbo.patch">
132: Revision 4 of this jumbo source code patch exists.</a><br>
133: <b>NOTE: /etc/sshd_config and /etc/ssh_config may need changes.</b>
134: <p>
135:
136: <li id="alpha_locore">
137: <strong>006: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 13, 1999</strong>
138: <i>alpha only</i><br>
139: The alpha kernel can possibly be crashed by a user.<br>
140: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/alpha/006_locore.patch">
141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
142: <p>
143:
144: <li id="hp300_locore">
145: <strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 12, 1999</strong>
146: <i>m68k architectures</i><br>
147: All m68k kernels can possibly be crashed by a user.<br>
148: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/m68k/007_locore.patch">
1.56 deraadt 149: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.2 deraadt 150: <p>
1.86 deraadt 151:
152: <li id="atapijumbo">
153: <strong>009: DRIVER IMPROVEMENTS: Dec 4, 1999</strong>
154: <i>All architectures</i><br>
155: Various improvements have been made to the IDE/ATAPI subsystem since
156: the 2.6 release shipped.<br>
157: Some of these improvements make some recalcitrant devices work much better.
158: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/009_atapi.patch"><br>
159: Revision 1 of this jumbo source code patch exists.</a><br>
160: <p>
161:
162: <li id="sendmail">
163: <strong>010: SECURITY FIX: Dec 4, 1999</strong>
1.59 deraadt 164: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 165: Sendmail had a race in aliases file handling, which this patch fixes.<br>
166: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/010_sendmail.patch">
167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 168: <p>
1.86 deraadt 169:
170: <li id="poll">
171: <strong>011: SECURITY FIX: Dec 4, 1999</strong>
1.59 deraadt 172: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 173: Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.<br>
174: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/011_poll.patch">
1.56 deraadt 175: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 176: <p>
1.86 deraadt 177:
178: <li id="packets3c900b">
179: <strong>012: DRIVER IMPROVEMENT: Jan 3, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 180: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 181: The 3C900B-TPO fails to select the correct media type (it never sees or
182: sends packets).<br>
183: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/012_3c900b.patch">
1.56 deraadt 184: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 185: <p>
1.86 deraadt 186:
187: <li id="addusery2k">
188: <strong>013: Y2K FIX: Jan 3, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 189: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 190: A minor problem in the logging support for the adduser(8) command.<br>
191: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/013_addusery2k.patch">
192: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
193: <p>
194:
195: <li id="eepromy2k">
196: <strong>014: Y2K FIX: Jan 3, 2000</strong><br>
197: A minor problem; the sparc eeprom(8) command is not Y2K compliant.<br>
198: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/sparc/014_eepromy2k.patch">
1.56 deraadt 199: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.86 deraadt 200: This is the second revision of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 201: <p>
1.86 deraadt 202:
203: <li id="aty2k">
204: <strong>015: Y2K FIX: Jan 9, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 205: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 206: The at(1) command was unable to parse some kinds of dates.<br>
207: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/015_aty2k.patch">
1.58 deraadt 208: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
209: <p>
1.86 deraadt 210:
1.63 bentley 211: <li id="sslUSA">
1.85 bentley 212: <strong>016: SECURITY FIX: Dec 2, 1999</strong>
1.59 deraadt 213: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.58 deraadt 214: A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
1.85 bentley 215: USA version of the libssl package (called <b>sslUSA</b>, is
1.58 deraadt 216: possibly exploitable in isakmpd if SSL/RSA features
217: are enabled or used.<br>
1.76 tb 218: <a href="https://www.openssh.com">OpenSSH</a> and httpd (with -DSSL) are not
1.58 deraadt 219: vulnerable.<br>
1.85 bentley 220: <b>NOTE: International users using the ssl26 package are not affected.</b>
1.58 deraadt 221: <p>
222: To check what package you are using, use
223: <pre>
224: <b>#</b> pkg_info sslUSA26
225: </pre>
226: The patched library says:<br>
227: "ssl26.1 USA-only non-commercial crypto libs incl. SSL & RSA"
228: <p>
229: Non-commercial USA users who installed the ssl package before December 3
1.85 bentley 230: should upgrade their <b>sslUSA26</b> package using:<br>
1.58 deraadt 231: <pre>
232: <b>#</b> pkg_delete sslUSA26
233: <b>#</b> pkg_add -v sslUSA26.tar.gz
234: </pre>
1.85 bentley 235: Using the new <b>sslUSA26.tar.gz</b> files which have been placed
1.58 deraadt 236: on the FTP mirrors.<br>
1.60 nick 237: <a href="advisories/sslUSA">For more information, see the advisory</a>.<br>
1.85 bentley 238: <b>NOTE: this problem turned out to not be unexploitable in OpenSSH.</b>
1.58 deraadt 239: <p>
1.86 deraadt 240:
241: <li id="fortran">
242: <strong>017: FUNCTIONALITY ADDITION: Nov 14, 1999</strong>
1.59 deraadt 243: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 244: Fortran doesn't work right. The file /usr/include/g2c.h is missing in the
245: release.<br>
246: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/008_fortran.patch">
1.56 deraadt 247: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.86 deraadt 248: The patch fixes the source tree and describes how to properly add
249: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/g2c.h">
250: the include file</a> to your system.
1.1 deraadt 251: <p>
1.86 deraadt 252:
253: <li id="procfs">
254: <strong>018: SECURITY FIX: Jan 20, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 255: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 256: Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are vulnerable
257: to having the stderr output of setuid processes directed onto
258: a pre-seeked descriptor onto the stack in their own procfs memory.<br>
259: Note that procfs is not mounted by default in OpenBSD.<br>
260: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/018_procfs.patch">
1.56 deraadt 261: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 262: <p>
1.86 deraadt 263:
264: <li id="syslog">
265: <strong>020: LIBRARY IMPROVEMENT: Jan 26, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 266: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 267: syslog(3) would not try to reopen the socket, thus, nightly newsyslog(8)
268: would cause syslogd(8) to not see new messages.
269: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/020_syslog.patch">
1.56 deraadt 270: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 271: <p>
1.86 deraadt 272:
273: <li id="nsphy">
274: <strong>019: DRIVER IMPROVEMENT: Jan 20, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 275: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 276: Intel fxp cards with National Semiconductor PHYs (nsphy) have trouble
277: negotiating and maintaining 100Mb link integrity.<br>
278: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/019_nsphy.patch">
1.56 deraadt 279: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 280: <p>
1.86 deraadt 281:
282: <li id="rzsz">
283: <strong>021: RZSZ SNOOPING: Jan 31, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 284: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 285: The rzsz port was removed from the ports collection, as it collects and
286: sends user information to a designated email address, effectively spying on
287: you. <em>It is recommended that you remove this package if you installed
288: it</em>.
1.1 deraadt 289: <p>
1.86 deraadt 290:
291: <li id="xlockmore">
292: <strong>022: SECURITY FIX: May 25, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 293: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 294: xlockmore has a localhost attack against it which allows recovery of the encrypted
295: hash of the root password. The damage to systems using DES passwords from this
296: attack is pretty heavy, but to systems with a well-chosen root password under
297: blowfish encoding
298: (see <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.6/crypt.3">
299: crypt(3)</a>)
300: the impact is much reduced.<br>
301: (Aside: We do not consider this a localhost root hole in the default install,
302: since we have not seen a fast blowfish cracker yet ;-)<br>
303: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/022_xlockmore.patch">
1.58 deraadt 304: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.86 deraadt 305: This is the 2nd patch designed to solve this problem.
1.1 deraadt 306: <p>
1.86 deraadt 307:
308: <li id="ipf">
309: <strong>023: SECURITY FIX: May 25, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 310: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 311: A misuse of ipf(8)
312: <i>keep-state</i> rules can result in firewall rules being
313: bypassed.
314: This patch also includes fixes for an unaligned timestamp issue,
315: and reliability fixes for ipmon and the in-kernel ftp proxy.<br>
316: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/023_ipf.patch">
1.58 deraadt 317: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.86 deraadt 318: It updates ipf to version 3.3.16.
1.58 deraadt 319: <p>
1.86 deraadt 320:
321: <li id="semconfig">
322: <strong>024: SECURITY FIX: May 26, 2000</strong>
1.59 deraadt 323: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.86 deraadt 324: Kernel contained an undocumented system call used to lock semaphore operations
325: while they were being sampled by the ipcs(1) command. This locking could be
326: used as a local denial of service attack which would block the exiting of
327: processes which had semaphore resources allocated. Processes not using
328: semaphores are not affected, so the actual effect is very minimal.<br>
329: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.6/common/024_sysv_sem.patch">
1.1 deraadt 330: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
331: <p>
1.74 deraadt 332:
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334:
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