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1.101 deraadt 76: <a href="errata69.html">6.9</a>.
1.1 deraadt 77: <hr>
78:
1.66 deraadt 79: <p>
1.87 tj 80: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
81: Each patch contains usage instructions.
82: All the following patches are also available in one
83: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
84: for convenience.
1.1 deraadt 85:
86: <p>
1.87 tj 87: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.88 tj 88: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.66 deraadt 89:
1.1 deraadt 90: <hr>
91:
92: <ul>
1.96 deraadt 93:
94: <li id="sendmail">
95: <strong>001: SECURITY FIX: May 29, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 96: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 97: The signal handlers in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/sendmail.8">sendmail(8)</a> contain code that is unsafe in the
98: context of a signal handler. This leads to potentially serious
99: race conditions. At the moment this is a theoretical attack only
100: and can only be exploited on the local host (if at all).<br>
101: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/001_sendmail.patch">
1.66 deraadt 102: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.24 millert 103: <p>
1.96 deraadt 104:
105: <li id="fts">
106: <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: May 30, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 107: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 108: Programs using the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/fts.3">fts(3)</a>
109: routines (such as rm, find, and most programs that take a <b>-R</b>
110: flag) can be tricked into changing into the wrong directory if the
111: parent dir is changed out from underneath it. This is similar to
112: the old fts bug but happens when popping out of directories, as
113: opposed to descending into them.
114: <br>
115: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/002_fts.patch">
1.66 deraadt 116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.96 deraadt 117: This is the second version of the patch.
1.21 millert 118: <p>
1.96 deraadt 119:
120: <li id="cd_cover">
121: <strong>003: DOCUMENTATION FIX: June 1, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 122: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 123: The 2.9 CD cover states that XFree86 3.3.6-current is included. This is only half-true.
124: In fact, the XFree86 included for all architectures is 4.0.3. On the i386, the
125: 3.3.6 Xservers have also been included, because 4.0.3 still has weak support for
126: some devices which 3.3.6 supported better.
1.20 millert 127: <p>
1.96 deraadt 128:
129: <li id="isakmpd">
130: <strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: June 5, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 131: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 132: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/isakmpd.8">isakmpd(8)</a>
133: will fail to use a certificate with an identity string that is
134: exactly N * 8 bytes long.
135: <br>
136: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/004_isakmpd.patch">
1.66 deraadt 137: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.19 markus 138: <p>
1.96 deraadt 139:
140: <li id="pwd_mkdb">
141: <strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX: June 7, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 142: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 143: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/pwd_mkdb.8">pwd_mkdb(8)</a>
144: corrupts /etc/pwd.db when modifying an existing user.
1.15 millert 145: <br>
1.96 deraadt 146: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/005_pwd_mkdb.patch">
1.66 deraadt 147: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.15 millert 148: <p>
1.96 deraadt 149:
150: <li id="sshcookie">
151: <strong>006: SECURITY FIX: June 12, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 152: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 153: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
154: allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies" if X11
155: forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled by default.
156: <br>
157: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/006_sshcookie.patch">
1.66 deraadt 158: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.13 millert 159: <p>
1.96 deraadt 160:
161: <li id="kernexec">
162: <strong>007: SECURITY FIX: June 15, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 163: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 164: A race condition exists in the kernel <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/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-2.9/ptrace.2">ptrace(2)</a> attach to a suid/sgid process.
165: <br>
166: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/007_kernexec.patch">
1.66 deraadt 167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.12 millert 168: <p>
1.96 deraadt 169:
170: <li id="twe">
171: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: June 15, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 172: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 173: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/twe.4">twe(4)</a>
174: mishandles the DMA mapping resulting in a kernel panic on unaligned data
175: transfers, induced by programs such as
176: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/disklabel.8">disklabel(8)</a>
177: and
178: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/dump.8">dump(8)</a>.
179: <br>
180: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/008_twe.patch">
1.66 deraadt 181: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.96 deraadt 182: This is the second version of the patch.
1.11 miod 183: <p>
1.96 deraadt 184:
185: <li id="XF86Setup">
186: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: Jun 23, 2001</strong><br>
187: The XF86Setup(1) configuration tool for XFree86 3.3.6 is producing
188: corrupted /etc/XF86Config files.
189: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/i386/009_XF86Setup.patch">
1.66 deraadt 190: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.96 deraadt 191: It does so by linking XF86Setup against the XFree86 3.3.6 version of libXxf86vm.a.
192: <p>
193: <li>When using a PS/2 keyboard with an MSI K7T Pro2A motherboard, it may be
194: necessary to disable the "USB Keyboard Support" and
195: "USB Mouse Support" options in the BIOS. Otherwise, the i8042
196: keyboard controller doesn't acknowledge commands, confusing OpenBSD.
1.7 millert 197: <p>
1.96 deraadt 198:
199: <li id="nvidia">
200: <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX: Jul 9, 2001</strong><br>
201: The NVIDIA driver for XFree86 4.0.3 is incorrectly restoring the text
202: mode palette upon exit of the X server. <a
203: href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/i386/010_nvidia.patch">
204: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
205: To avoid rebuilding the whole XFree86 tree, an updated binary driver
206: is also available
207: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/i386/nv_drv.o">here</a>.
208: Just grab it, copy it to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ and
209: restart your X server.
1.68 deraadt 210: <p>
1.96 deraadt 211:
212: <li id="pkg">
213: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX: July 15, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 214: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 215: The
216: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/packages.7">packages(7)</a>
217: subsystem incorrectly accepts some package dependencies as okay (see
218: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/packages-specs.7">packages-specs(7)</a>
219: for details).
220: <br>
221: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/011_pkg.patch">
1.66 deraadt 222: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.96 deraadt 223: by forcing <code>/usr/sbin/pkg</code> to be more careful in checking
224: version numbers.
1.4 millert 225: <p>
1.96 deraadt 226:
227: <li id="nfs">
228: <strong>012: SECURITY FIX: July 30, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 229: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 230: A kernel buffer overflow exists in the NFS mount code. An attacker may
231: use this overflow to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode. However,
232: only users with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/mount.2">mount(2)</a>
233: privileges can initiate this attack. In default installs, only super-user has
234: mount privileges. The kern.usermount <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/sysctl.3">sysctl(3)</a> controls whether other users have mount privileges.
1.2 millert 235: <br>
1.96 deraadt 236: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/012_nfs.patch">
1.66 deraadt 237: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.2 millert 238: <p>
1.96 deraadt 239:
240: <li id="sendmail2">
241: <strong>013: SECURITY FIX: August 21, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 242: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 243: A security hole exists in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/sendmail.8">sendmail(8)</a>
244: that may allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges by
245: specifying out-of-bounds debug parameters.
1.1 deraadt 246: <br>
1.96 deraadt 247: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/013_sendmail.patch">
1.66 deraadt 248: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 249: <p>
1.96 deraadt 250:
1.73 bentley 251: <li id="lpd">
1.95 bentley 252: <strong>014: SECURITY FIX: August 29, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 253: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.90 tb 254: A security hole exists in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/lpd.8">lpd(8)</a>
1.1 deraadt 255: that may allow an attacker with line printer access to gain root
256: privileges. A machine must be running lpd to be vulnerable (OpenBSD
257: does not start lpd by default). Only machines with line printer
258: access (ie: listed in either /etc/hosts.lpd or /etc/hosts.equiv)
259: may be used to mount an attack.
260: <br>
1.86 tb 261: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/014_lpd.patch">
1.66 deraadt 262: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 263: <p>
1.96 deraadt 264:
265: <li id="uucp">
266: <strong>015: SECURITY FIX: September 11, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 267: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 268: A security hole exists in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/uuxqt.8">uuxqt(8)</a>
269: that may allow an attacker to run arbitrary commands as user uucp and
270: use this to gain root access.
271: The UUCP execution daemon, uuxqt(8), has a bug in its command line
272: parsing routine that may allow arbitrary commands to be run. Because
273: some UUCP commands are run as root (and daemon) from cron it is possible
274: to leverage compromise of the UUCP user to gain root.
1.1 deraadt 275: <br>
1.96 deraadt 276: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/015_uucp.patch">
1.66 deraadt 277: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 278: <p>
1.96 deraadt 279:
280: <li id="vi.recover">
281: <strong>016: SECURITY FIX: November 13, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 282: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 283: A security issue exists in the vi.recover script that may allow an attacker
284: to remove arbitrary zero-length files, regardless of ownership.
1.1 deraadt 285: <br>
1.96 deraadt 286: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/016_recover.patch">
1.66 deraadt 287: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 288: <p>
1.96 deraadt 289:
290: <li id="lpd2">
291: <strong>017: SECURITY FIX: November 28, 2001</strong>
1.69 deraadt 292: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 293: A security issue exists in the lpd daemon that may allow an attacker
294: to create arbitrary new files in the root directory. Only machines
295: with line printer access (ie: listed in either /etc/hosts.lpd or
296: /etc/hosts.equiv) may be used to mount an attack and the attacker
297: must have root access on the machine. OpenBSD does not start lpd
298: in the default installation.
299: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/017_lpd.patch">
1.66 deraadt 300: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 301: <p>
1.96 deraadt 302:
303: <li id="missing">
304: <strong>018: INSTALL PROBLEM: Dec 11, 2001</strong><br>
305: The X binary sets shipped with OpenBSD 2.9 do not contain several files. These
306: missing files can be added manually from the sparc tarballs after the
307: installation:<br>
308: Grab the
309: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.9/sparc/xbase29.tgz">xbase29.tgz</a>
310: and
311: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.9/sparc/xshare29.tgz">xshare29.tgz</a>
312: files found in the 2.9/sparc directory on the CD, or any FTP site. The missing
313: files can be installed by using the following commands:
314: <pre>
315: # cd /; tar xzpf xbase29.tgz ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/{rgb.txt,xdm}
316: # cd /; tar xzpf xserv29.tgz ./etc/X11/xserver ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver
317: # cd /usr/X11R6/bin/; ln -fs Xmac68k X
318: </pre>
1.68 deraadt 319: <p>
1.96 deraadt 320:
321: <li id="sudo">
322: <strong>019: SECURITY FIX: January 17, 2002</strong>
323: <i>All architectures</i><br>
324: If the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed on a system an
325: attacker may be able to gain root privileges on the local host via
326: sudo(8) which runs the mailer as root with an environment inherited
327: from the invoking user. While this is a bug in sudo it is not
328: believed to be possible to exploit when sendmail (the mailer that
329: ships with OpenBSD) is the mailer. As of version 1.6.5, sudo passes
330: the mailer an environment that is not subject to influence from the
331: invoking user.<br>
332: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/019_sudo.patch">
1.68 deraadt 333: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
334: <p>
1.96 deraadt 335:
336: <li id="ptrace">
337: <strong>020: SECURITY FIX: February 20, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 338: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 339: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls allows
340: an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid processes which
341: could lead to compromise of the super-user account.<br>
342: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/020_ptrace.patch">
1.66 deraadt 343: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 344: <p>
1.96 deraadt 345:
346: <li id="openssh">
347: <strong>021: SECURITY FIX: March 8, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 348: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 349: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to an off-by-one check
350: in the channel forwarding code of OpenSSH.<br>
351: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/021_openssh.patch">
1.66 deraadt 352: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.63 deraadt 353: <p>
1.96 deraadt 354:
355: <li id="zlib">
356: <strong>022: RELIABILITY FIX: March 13, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 357: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 358: Under some circumstances the zlib compression library can free dynamically
359: allocated memory twice. This is not a security issue on OpenBSD since the BSD
360: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/free.3">free(3)</a>
361: function detects this.
362: There is also a kernel zlib component that may be used by pppd and IPsec.
363: The feasibility of attacking the kernel this way is currently unknown.<br>
364: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/022_zlib.patch">
1.66 deraadt 365: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.63 deraadt 366: <p>
1.96 deraadt 367:
368: <li id="mail">
369: <strong>023: SECURITY FIX: April 11, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 370: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 371: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/mail.1">mail(1)</a>
372: will process tilde escapes even in non-interactive mode.
373: This can lead to a local root compromise.
1.1 deraadt 374: <br>
1.96 deraadt 375: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/023_mail.patch">
1.66 deraadt 376: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.63 deraadt 377: <p>
1.96 deraadt 378:
379: <li id="sshafs">
380: <strong>024: SECURITY FIX: April 22, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 381: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 382: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer overflow
383: in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/sshd.8">sshd(8)</a>
384: if AFS has been configured on the system or if
385: KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
386: in the sshd_config file. Ticket and token passing is not enabled
387: by default.<br>
388: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/024_sshafs.patch">
1.66 deraadt 389: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.63 deraadt 390: <p>
1.96 deraadt 391:
392:
393: <li id="sudo2">
394: <strong>025: SECURITY FIX: April 25, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 395: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 396: A bug in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-2.9/sudo.8">sudo(8)</a> may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap by specifying a custom prompt.<br>
397: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/025_sudo.patch">
398: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.63 deraadt 399: <p>
1.96 deraadt 400:
401: <li id="fdalloc2">
402: <strong>026: SECURITY FIX: May 8, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 403: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 404: A race condition exists where an attacker could fill the file descriptor
405: table and defeat the kernel's protection of fd slots 0, 1, and 2 for a
406: setuid or setgid process.<br>
407: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/026_fdalloc2.patch">
1.66 deraadt 408: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 409: <p>
1.96 deraadt 410:
411: <li id="resolver">
412: <strong>027: SECURITY FIX: June 25, 2002</strong>
1.69 deraadt 413: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.96 deraadt 414: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.<br>
415: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.9/common/027_resolver.patch">
1.66 deraadt 416: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.84 deraadt 417: <p>
418:
1.1 deraadt 419: </ul>
1.64 deraadt 420:
1.74 tedu 421: <hr>
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