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73:
1.63 deraadt 74: <p>
1.85 tj 75: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
76: Each patch contains usage instructions.
77: All the following patches are also available in one
78: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
79: for convenience.
1.1 deraadt 80:
81: <p>
1.85 tj 82: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.86 tj 83: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.63 deraadt 84:
1.1 deraadt 85: <hr>
86:
87: <ul>
1.95 deraadt 88:
89: <li id="zsconsole">
90: <strong>001: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 10, 2000</strong><br>
91: When running a sparc with a serial console, certain types of interrupts would
92: cause great grief.<br>
93: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/sparc/001_zsconsole.patch">
94: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
95: <p>
96:
97: <li id="skey">
98: <strong>002: IMPLEMENTATION FIX: Nov 10, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 99: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 100: In ssh(1), skey support for SSH1 protocol was broken. Some people might consider
101: that kind of important.<br>
102: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/002_sshskey.patch">
1.63 deraadt 103: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.18 millert 104: <p>
1.95 deraadt 105:
106: <li id="qe">
107: <strong>003: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 17, 2000</strong><br>
108: Configuring a qec+qe causes a NMI panic.<br>
109: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/sparc/003_qe.patch">
1.63 deraadt 110: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.17 millert 111: <p>
1.95 deraadt 112:
113: <li id="rijndael">
114: <strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: Nov 17, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 115: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 116: First off, AES (Rijndael) encryption and decryption were broken for IPsec
117: and swap encryption.<br>
118: Secondly, the AES code did not work properly on big endian machines.<br>
119: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/004_rijndael.patch">
1.63 deraadt 120: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.95 deraadt 121: This is the second revision of the patch.
1.14 millert 122: <p>
1.95 deraadt 123:
124: <li id="ftpd">
125: <strong>005: SECURITY FIX: Dec 4, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 126: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 127: OpenBSD 2.8's ftpd contains a one-byte overflow in the replydirname() function.<br>
128: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/005_ftpd.patch">
1.63 deraadt 129: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.95 deraadt 130: You can view the <a href="advisories/ftpd_replydirname.txt">OpenBSD Advisory</a> here.
131: <p>
132:
133: <li id="pcibios">
134: <strong>006: STABILITY FIX: Dec 4, 2000</strong><br>
135: On some machines, a PCIBIOS device driver interrupt allocation bug can cause a
136: kernel hang while probing PCI devices. If you have this symptom, you can disable
137: PCIBIOS as a workaround. To do this,
138: <ul>
139: <li>Enter the User Kernel Configuration by booting with the
140: option "boot -c".
141: <li>Once at the <i>UKC></i> prompt, enter
142: <blockquote><pre>
143: UKC> disable pcibios
144: UKC> quit<!--
145: --></pre></blockquote>
146: <li>See <a href="./faq/faq5.html#5.6">this page</a> after a successful
147: boot for instructions on how to re-write your kernel to disable PCIBIOS
148: permanently.
149: </ul>
1.10 aaron 150: <p>
1.95 deraadt 151:
152: <li id="x_sun3">
153: <strong>007: INSTALL PROBLEM: Dec 4, 2000</strong><br>
154: The X packages
155: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.8/sun3/xshare28.tgz">share28.tgz</a>
156: and
157: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.8/sun3/xfont28.tgz">font28.tgz</a>
158: were not on the CD, and only available via FTP install. These packages can be
159: added post-install by using the following command:
160: <pre>
161: # cd /; tar xvfpz xshare28.tgz
162: # cd /; tar xvfpz xfont28.tgz
163: </pre>
164: <p>
165:
166: <li id="kerberos">
167: <strong>008: SECURITY FIX: Dec 7, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 168: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 169: Two problems have recently been discovered in the KerberosIV code.<p>
170: 1. A symlink problem was discovered in the KerberosIV password checking
171: routines /usr/bin/su and /usr/bin/login, which makes it possible for a
172: local user to overwrite any file on the local machine.<p>
173: 2. It is possible to specify environment variables in telnet
174: which will be passed over the to the remote host. This makes it
175: possible to set environment variables on the remote side, including
176: ones that have special meaning on the server. It is not clear at this
177: time what the impact is, but we recommend everyone to upgrade their
178: machines immediately.<p>
179: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/008_kerberos.patch">
1.63 deraadt 180: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.4 millert 181: <p>
1.95 deraadt 182:
183: <li id="kerberos2">
184: <strong>009: SECURITY FIX: Dec 10, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 185: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 186: Another problem exists in the Kerberos libraries.<br>
187: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/009_kerberos2.patch">
1.63 deraadt 188: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.3 millert 189: <p>
1.95 deraadt 190:
191: <li id="fastroute">
192: <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX: Dec 11, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 193: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 194: A crash could occur during fast routing, if IPSEC was enabled.<br>
195: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/010_fastroute.patch">
1.63 deraadt 196: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 197: <p>
1.95 deraadt 198:
199: <li id="hwcrypto">
200: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX: Dec 13, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 201: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 202: The crypto subsystem could incorrectly fail to run certain software ciphers,
203: if a hardware card existed in the machine.<br>
204: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/011_hwcrypto.patch">
1.63 deraadt 205: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 206: <p>
1.95 deraadt 207:
208: <li id="imacdv">
209: <strong>012: INSTALL PROBLEM: Dec 14, 2000</strong><br>
210: The IMac DV+ (and probably some other machines) incorrectly identify their video
211: hardware, but it is possible to work around the problem.<br>
212: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/powerpc/012_imacdv.patch">
1.63 deraadt 213: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 214: <p>
1.95 deraadt 215:
216: <li id="procfs">
217: <strong>013: SECURITY FIX: Dec 18, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 218: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 219: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/mount_procfs.8">Procfs</a> contained numerous overflows, which could lead an intruder to root permissions. Procfs is NOT enabled by default in OpenBSD. <br>
220: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/013_procfs.patch">
1.63 deraadt 221: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 222: <p>
1.95 deraadt 223:
224: <li id="xlock">
225: <strong>014: SECURITY FIX: Dec 22, 2000</strong>
1.66 deraadt 226: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 227: Improve xlock(1)'s authentication by authenticating via a pipe in an early forked process. No known vulnerability exists, this is just a precautionary patch.<br>
228: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/014_xlock.patch">
1.63 deraadt 229: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 230: <p>
1.95 deraadt 231: In addition to a source code patch, new xlock binaries have been created for each architecture listed below. Place these binaries at <i>/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock</i>
232: and <i>chmod 4755 /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock</i>.
233: <p>
234: <ul>
235: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/i386/xlock">Xlock - i386</a>
236: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/sparc/xlock">Xlock - sparc</a>
237: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/mac68k/xlock">Xlock - mac68k</a>
238: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/powerpc/xlock">Xlock - powerpc</a>
239: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/amiga/xlock">Xlock - amiga</a>
240: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/hp300/xlock">Xlock - hp300</a>
241: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/mvme68k/xlock">Xlock - mvme68k</a>
242: </ul>
1.65 deraadt 243: <p>
1.95 deraadt 244:
245: <li id="pms">
246: <strong>015: STABILITY FIX: Dec 22, 2000</strong><br>
247: Some machines locked up while trying to use the mouse in console mode. This patch solves that problem.<br>
248: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/i386/015_pms.patch">
1.63 deraadt 249: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 250: <p>
1.95 deraadt 251:
252: <li id="tl">
253: <strong>016: RELIABILITY FIX: Jan 4, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 254: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 255: Allow ThunderLAN cards to share interrupts nicely.<br>
256: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/016_tl.patch">
1.63 deraadt 257: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 258: <p>
1.95 deraadt 259:
260: <li id="rnd">
261: <strong>017: SECURITY FIX: Jan 22, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 262: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 263: The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/random.4">rnd(4)</a> device does not use all of its input when data is written to it.<br>
264: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/017_rnd.patch">
1.63 deraadt 265: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 266: <p>
1.95 deraadt 267:
1.70 bentley 268: <li id="named">
1.94 bentley 269: <strong>018: SECURITY FIX: Jan 29, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 270: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.88 tb 271: Merge <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/named.8">named</a>
1.1 deraadt 272: with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities (actually it appears
1.13 jsyn 273: that these were already impossible to exploit beforehand).<br>
1.84 tb 274: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/018_named.patch">
1.63 deraadt 275: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 276: <p>
1.95 deraadt 277:
278: <li id="lepci">
279: <strong>019: IMPLEMENTATION FIX: Jan 31, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 280: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 281: Fix memory allocation in the PCI LANCE driver, <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/le.4">le</a>. A side effect of this is that OpenBSD under VMWare now works again.<br>
282: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/019_lepci.patch">
1.63 deraadt 283: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 284: <p>
1.95 deraadt 285:
286: <li id="libwrap">
287: <strong>020: IMPLEMENTATION FIX: Feb 15, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 288: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 289: Client side ident protocol was broken in libwrap, affecting anything using libwrap including <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/tcpd.8">tcpd</a>. The effect of this was that libwrap would never retrieve and log ident values from remote hosts on connections.<br>
290: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/020_libwrap.patch">
1.63 deraadt 291: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 292: <p>
1.95 deraadt 293:
294: <li id="sudo">
295: <strong>021: SECURITY FIX: Feb 22, 2001</strong>
296: <i>All architectures</i><br>
297: There is an exploitable heap corruption bug in
298: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/sudo.8">sudo</a>.
299: <br>
300: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/021_sudo.patch">
1.65 deraadt 301: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
302: <p>
1.95 deraadt 303:
304: <li id="userldt">
305: <strong>022: SECURITY FIX: Mar 2, 2001</strong><br>
306: The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory. This option is not on by default.
307: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/i386/022_userltd.patch">
1.63 deraadt 308: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 309: <p>
1.95 deraadt 310:
311: <li id="ipsec_ah">
312: <strong>023: SECURITY FIX: Mar 2, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 313: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 314: Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun leading to a remote DoS. This option is not on by default.<br>
315: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/023_ip_ah.patch">
1.63 deraadt 316: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 317: <p>
1.95 deraadt 318:
319: <li id="readline">
320: <strong>024: SECURITY FIX: Mar 18, 2001</strong>
321: <i>All architectures</i><br>
322: The readline library shipped with OpenBSD allows history files creation
323: with a permissive
324: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/umask.2">umask(2)</a>.
325: This can lead to the leakage of sensitive information in applications
326: that use passwords and the like during user interaction (one such
327: application is mysql).<br>
328: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/024_readline.patch">
1.65 deraadt 329: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
330: <p>
1.95 deraadt 331:
332: <li id="glob">
333: <strong>025: SECURITY FIX: Apr 10, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 334: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 335: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/glob.3">glob(3)</a> contains multiple buffer overflows. <br>
336: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/025_glob.patch">
1.63 deraadt 337: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 338: <p>
1.95 deraadt 339:
340: <li id="glob_limit">
341: <strong>026: SECURITY FIX: Apr 23, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 342: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 343: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/glob.3">ftpd(8)</a> has a potential DoS related to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/glob.3">glob(3)</a>. This patch introduces a GLOB_LIMIT, eliminating the DoS. You must have <a href="#glob">025_glob.patch</a> installed before installing this patch.<br>
344: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/026_globlimit.patch">
1.63 deraadt 345: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 346: <p>
1.95 deraadt 347:
348: <li id="ipf_frag">
349: <strong>027: SECURITY FIX: Apr 23, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 350: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 351: IPF has a serious problem with fragment caching, the bug is triggered if you use the ipf(5) syntax "keep state".<br>
352: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/027_ipf-frag.patch">
1.63 deraadt 353: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 354: <p>
1.95 deraadt 355:
356: <li id="sendmail">
357: <strong>028: SECURITY FIX: May 29, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 358: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 359: The signal handlers in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/sendmail.8">sendmail(8)</a> contain code that is unsafe in the
360: context of a signal handler. This leads to potentially serious
361: race conditions. At the moment this is a theoretical attack only
362: and can only be exploited on the local host (if at all).<br>
363: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/028_sendmail.patch">
1.63 deraadt 364: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.95 deraadt 365: It updates sendmail to version 8.11.4.
1.1 deraadt 366: <p>
1.95 deraadt 367:
368: <li id="fts">
369: <strong>029: SECURITY FIX: May 30, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 370: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 371: Programs using the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/fts.3">fts(3)</a>
372: routines (such as rm, find, and most programs that take a <b>-R</b>
373: flag) can be tricked into changing into the wrong directory if the
374: parent dir is changed out from underneath it. This is similar to
375: the old fts bug but happens when popping out of directories, as
376: opposed to descending into them.
377: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/029_fts.patch">
1.65 deraadt 378: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.95 deraadt 379: This is the second version of the patch.
1.1 deraadt 380: <p>
1.95 deraadt 381:
382: <li id="kernexec">
383: <strong>030: SECURITY FIX: June 15, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 384: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 385: A race condition exists in the kernel <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/execve.2">execve(2)</a> implementation that opens a small window of vulnerability for a non-privileged user to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/ptrace.2">ptrace(2)</a> attach to a suid/sgid process.
386: <br>
387: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/030_kernexec.patch">
1.65 deraadt 388: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 389: <p>
1.95 deraadt 390:
391: <li id="sendmail2">
392: <strong>031: SECURITY FIX: August 21, 2001</strong>
393: <i>All architectures</i><br>
394: A security hole exists in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/sendmail.8">sendmail(8)</a>
395: that may allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges by
396: specifying out-of-bounds debug parameters.
397: <br>
398: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/031_sendmail.patch">
1.1 deraadt 399: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
400: <p>
1.95 deraadt 401:
402: <li id="lpd">
403: <strong>032: SECURITY FIX: August 29, 2001</strong>
1.66 deraadt 404: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.95 deraadt 405: A security hole exists in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/lpd.8">lpd(8)</a>
406: that may allow an attacker with line printer access to gain root
407: privileges. A machine must be running lpd to be vulnerable (OpenBSD
408: does not start lpd by default). Only machines with line printer
409: access (ie: listed in either /etc/hosts.lpd or /etc/hosts.equiv)
410: may be used to mount an attack.
411: <br>
412: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/032_lpd.patch">
1.65 deraadt 413: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
414: <p>
1.95 deraadt 415:
416: <li id="uucp">
417: <strong>033: SECURITY FIX: September 11, 2001</strong>
418: <i>All architectures</i><br>
419: A security hole exists in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.8/uuxqt.8">uuxqt(8)</a>
420: that may allow an attacker to run arbitrary commands as user uucp and
421: use this to gain root access.
422: The UUCP execution daemon, uuxqt(8), has a bug in its command line
423: parsing routine may allow arbitrary commands to be run. Because
424: some UUCP commands are run as root (and daemon) from cron it is possible
425: to leverage compromise of the UUCP user to gain root.
426: <br>
427: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.8/common/033_uucp.patch">
1.1 deraadt 428: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
429: <p>
1.82 deraadt 430:
1.1 deraadt 431: </ul>
1.61 deraadt 432:
1.71 tedu 433: <hr>
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