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17: This is the OpenBSD 3.0 release errata & patch list:
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22: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
23: <a href=pkg-stable.html>For important packages updates, please refer here.</a><br>
24: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
25: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
26: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
27: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
28: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
29: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
30: <a href=errata27.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
31: <a href=errata28.html>For 2.8 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
32: <a href=errata29.html>For 2.9 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
1.3 miod 33: <a href=errata.html>For 3.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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35:
36: <a href=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0.tar.gz>
37: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
38: This file is updated once a day.
39:
40: <p> The patches below are available in CVS via the
41: <code>OPENBSD_3_0</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
42:
43: <p>
44: For more detailed information on install patches to OpenBSD, please
45: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#10.14">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
46: <hr>
47:
48: <dl>
49: <a name=all></a>
50: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>All architectures</font></h3>
51: <ul>
1.27 miod 52: <a name=scarg></a>
53: <li><font color=#009000><strong>031: SECURITY FIX: August 11, 2002</strong></font><br>
54: An insufficient boundary check in the
55: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=select&sektion=2">select(2)</a>
1.28 ! provos 56: system call allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary
1.27 miod 57: code in kernel context.<br>
58: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/031_scarg.patch">A
59: source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
60: <p>
1.24 miod 61: <a name=ssl></a>
62: <li><font color=#009000><strong>030: SECURITY FIX: July 30, 2002</strong></font><br>
1.26 jufi 63: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3 client of the
64: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssl&sektion=8">ssl(8)</a>
65: library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
66: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=3">crypto(3)</a>
67: library, all of them being potentially remotely exploitable.<br>
1.24 miod 68: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/030_ssl.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
1.25 aaron 69: <p>
1.24 miod 70: <a name=xdr></a>
71: <li><font color=#009000><strong>029: SECURITY FIX: July 29, 2002</strong></font><br>
1.26 jufi 72: A buffer overflow can occur in the
73: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xdr_array&sektion=3">xdr_array(3)</a>
74: RPC code, leading to possible remote crash.<br>
1.24 miod 75: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/029_xdr.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
1.25 aaron 76: <p>
1.24 miod 77: <a name=pppd></a>
78: <li><font color=#009000><strong>028: SECURITY FIX: July 29, 2002</strong></font><br>
1.26 jufi 79: A race condition exists in the
80: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pppd&sektion=8">pppd(8)</a>
81: daemon which may cause it to alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.<br>
1.24 miod 82: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/028_pppd.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
1.25 aaron 83: <p>
1.21 ho 84: <a name=isakmpd2></a>
85: <li><font color=#009000><strong>027: RELIABILITY FIX: July 5, 2002</strong></font><br>
86: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause
87: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a> to crash.<br>
88: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/027_isakmpd.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
1.23 jufi 89: <br>
1.22 ho 90: This is the second version of the patch.
1.21 ho 91: <p>
1.17 miod 92: <a name=ktrace></a>
93: <li><font color=#009000><strong>026: SECURITY FIX: June 27, 2002</strong></font><br>
1.19 horacio 94: The kernel would let any user <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ktrace&sektion=2">ktrace(2)</a> set[ug]id processes.<br>
1.18 pvalchev 95: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/026_ktrace.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
1.17 miod 96: <p>
1.13 millert 97: <a name=resolver></a>
98: <li><font color=#009000><strong>025: SECURITY FIX: June 25, 2002</strong></font><br>
99: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.<br>
100: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/025_resolver.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
101: <p>
1.14 miod 102: <a name=sshdauth></a>
1.12 miod 103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>024: SECURITY FIX: June 24, 2002</strong></font><br>
1.20 deraadt 104: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an input validation
1.14 miod 105: error that can result in an integer overflow and privilege escalation.
106: This problem is fixed in <a href="http://www.openssh.com/openbsd.html">OpenSSH
107: 3.4</a>, and a patch for the vulnerable releases is available as part of the
108: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/txt/preauth.adv">security advisory</a>.
109: <p>
110: <a name=modssl></a>
111: <li><font color=#009000><strong>023: SECURITY FIX: June 24, 2002</strong></font><br>
112: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in mod_ssl httpd
1.16 miod 113: module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.<br>
1.14 miod 114: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/023_mod_ssl.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
1.12 miod 115: <p>
1.10 miod 116: <a name=httpd></a>
117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>022: SECURITY FIX: June 19, 2002</strong></font><br>
118: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
1.11 brad 119: encoding in the http daemon, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.<br>
1.10 miod 120: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/022_httpd.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
121: <p>
1.7 millert 122: <a name=fdalloc2></a>
123: <li><font color=#009000><strong>021: SECURITY FIX: May 8, 2002</strong></font><br>
124: A race condition exists where an attacker could fill the file descriptor
125: table and defeat the kernel's protection of fd slots 0, 1, and 2 for a
1.8 millert 126: setuid or setgid process.<br>
1.7 millert 127: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/021_fdalloc2.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
128: <p>
1.5 millert 129: <a name=sudo2></a>
130: <li><font color=#009000><strong>020: SECURITY FIX: April 25, 2002</strong></font><br>
1.6 millert 131: A bug in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sudo&sektion=8">sudo(8)</a> may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap by specifying a custom prompt.<br>
1.5 millert 132: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/020_sudo.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
133: <p>
1.4 markus 134: <a name=sshafs></a>
135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>019: SECURITY FIX: April 22, 2002</strong></font><br>
136: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer overflow
137: in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
138: if AFS has been configured on the system or if
139: KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
140: in the sshd_config file. Ticket and token passing is not enabled
141: by default.<br>
142: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/019_sshafs.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
143: <p>
1.1 deraadt 144: <a name=mail></a>
145: <li><font color=#009000><strong>018: SECURITY FIX: April 11, 2002</strong></font><br>
146: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mail&sektion=1">mail(1)</a>
147: will process tilde escapes even in non-interactive mode.
148: This can lead to a local root compromise.
149: <br>
150: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/018_mail.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
151: <p>
152: <a name=isakmpd></a>
153: <li><font color=#009000><strong>017: RELIABILITY FIX: March 26, 2002</strong></font><br>
154: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
155: will crash when receiving a zero length IKE packet due to a too-late length check.
156: <br>
157: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/017_isakmpd.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
158: <p>
159: <a name=approval></a>
160: <li><font color=#009000><strong>016: SECURITY FIX: March 19, 2002</strong></font><br>
161: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in the password
162: database, it is possible for the
163: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rexecd&sektion=8">rexecd(8)</a>
164: and
165: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rshd&sektion=8">rshd(8)</a>
166: daemons to execute the shell from a different user's password entry.
167: Due to a similar problem,
168: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atrun&sektion=8">atrun(8)</a>
169: may change to the wrong home directory when running
170: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=at&sektion=1">at(1)</a>
171: jobs.<br>
172: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/016_approval.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
173: <p>
174: <a name=zlib></a>
175: <li><font color=#009000><strong>015: RELIABILITY FIX: March 13, 2002</strong></font><br>
176: Under some circumstances the zlib compression library can free dynamically
177: allocated memory twice. This is not a security issue on OpenBSD since the BSD
178: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=free&sektion=3">free(3)</a>
179: function detects this.
180: There is also a kernel zlib component that may be used by pppd and IPSec.
181: The feasibility of attacking the kernel this way is currently unknown.<br>
182: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/015_zlib.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
183: <p>
184: <a name=openssh></a>
185: <li><font color=#009000><strong>014: SECURITY FIX: March 8, 2002</strong></font><br>
186: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to an off-by-one check
187: in the channel forwarding code of OpenSSH.<br>
188: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/014_openssh.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
189: <p>
190: <a name=syspipe></a>
191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>013: RELIABILITY FIX: February 4, 2002</strong></font><br>
192: The wrong filedescriptors are released when pipe(2) failed.<br>
193: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/013_syspipe.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
194: <p>
195: <a name=ptrace></a>
196: <li><font color=#009000><strong>012: SECURITY FIX: January 21, 2002</strong></font><br>
197: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls allows
198: an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid processes which
199: could lead to compromise of the super-user account.<br>
200: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/012_ptrace.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
201: <p>
202: <a name=sudo>
203: <li><font color=#009000><strong>011: SECURITY FIX: January 17, 2002</strong></font><br>
204: If the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed on a system an
205: attacker may be able to gain root privileges on the local host via
206: sudo(8) which runs the mailer as root with an environment inherited
207: from the invoking user. While this is a bug in sudo it is not
208: believed to be possible to exploit when sendmail (the mailer that
209: ships with OpenBSD) is the mailer. As of version 1.6.5, sudo passes
210: the mailer an environment that is not subject to influence from the
211: invoking user.<br>
212: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/011_sudo.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
213: <p>
214: <a name=ipip>
215: <li><font color=#009000><strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX: December 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1.2 miod 216: Systems running with IP-in-IP encapsulation can be made to crash by
1.1 deraadt 217: malformed packets.<br>
218: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/010_ipip.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
219: <p>
220: <a name=lpd>
221: <li><font color=#009000><strong>008: SECURITY FIX: November 28, 2001</strong></font><br>
222: A security issue exists in the lpd daemon that may allow an attacker
223: to create arbitrary new files in the root directory. Only machines
224: with line printer access (ie: listed in either /etc/hosts.lpd or
225: /etc/hosts.equiv) may be used to mount an attack and the attacker
226: must have root access on the machine. OpenBSD does not start lpd
227: in the default installation.<br>
228: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/008_lpd.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
229: <p>
230: <a name=vi.recover>
231: <li><font color=#009000><strong>007: SECURITY FIX: November 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
232: A security issue exists in the vi.recover script that may allow an attacker
233: to remove arbitrary zero-length files, regardless of ownership.
234: <br>
235: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/007_recover.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
236: <p>
237: <a name=pf>
238: <li><font color=#009000><strong>006: SECURITY FIX: November 13, 2001</strong></font>
239: <br>
240: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
241: was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets, resulting in a crash.
242: <br>
243: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/006_pf.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
244: <p>
245: <a name=sshd>
246: <li><font color=#009000><strong>002: SECURITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font><br>
247: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
248: is being upgraded from OpenSSH 3.0 to OpenSSH 3.0.2 to fix a few problems:
249: <p>
250: <ul>
251: <li>A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
252: if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.
253: <br>
254: By default, OpenSSH KerberosV support only becomes active after KerberosV
255: has been properly configured.
256: <p>
257: <li>An excessive memory clearing bug (which we believe to be unexploitable)
258: also exists, but since this may cause daemon crashes, we are providing a
259: patch as well.
260: <p>
261: <li>A vulnerability in environment passing in the <code>UseLogin</code>
262: <i>sshd</i> option
263: <p>
264: <li>Various other non-critical fixes.
265: </ul>
266: <p>
267: Effectively an upgrade of OpenSSH 3.0 to OpenSSH 3.0.2,
268: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/002_ssh2.patch">a source code patch exists which remedies these problems</a>.
269: This is the second version of this patch.
270: <p>
271: <a name=hosts>
272: <li><font color=#009000><strong>001: INSTALL ISSUE: November 12, 2001</strong></font><br>
273: A small bug in the installation script causes the <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> file to
274: be incorrectly formed.<br>
275: The resulting file contains a line which reads like:<p>
276: <tt>
277: #.#.#.# hostname. hostname
278: </tt>
279: <p>
280: This line should actually read something like:<p>
281: <tt>
282: #.#.#.# hostname.domainname.com hostname
283: </tt>
284: <p>
285: To correct this problem, simply edit the file and insert the domainname in
286: the required place.
287: <p>
288: </ul>
289: <p>
290: <a name=i386></a>
291: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>i386</font></h3>
292: <ul>
293: <a name=hifn>
294: <li><font color=#009000><strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
295: <br>
296: Hifn7751 based cards may stop working on certain motherboards due to
297: DMA errors.
298: <br>
299: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/i386/004_hifn.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
300: <p>
301: </ul>
302: <p>
303: <a name=alpha></a>
304: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>alpha</font></h3>
305: <ul>
306: <li>No problems identified yet.
307: </ul>
308: <p>
309: <a name=mac68k></a>
310: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mac68k</font></h3>
311: <ul>
312: <li>No problems identified yet.
313: </ul>
314: <p>
315: <a name=sparc></a>
316: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc</font></h3>
317: <ul>
318: <li>No problems identified yet.
319: </ul>
320: <p>
321: <a name=sparc64></a>
322: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>sparc64</font></h3>
323: <ul>
324: <a name=sparc64cd></a>
325: <li><font color=#009000><strong>003: RELIABILITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
326: <br>
327: Access to a CD drive on the PCI ultrasparc machines results in a continuous stream
328: of bogus interrupt messages, causing great user anguish.
329: <br>
330: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/sparc64/003_sparc64cd.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
331: <p>
332: </ul>
333: <p>
334: <a name=amiga></a>
335: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>amiga</font></h3>
336: <ul>
337: <li>No problems identified yet.
338: </ul>
339: <p>
340: <a name=hp300></a>
341: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>hp300</font></h3>
342: <ul>
343: <li>No problems identified yet.
344: </ul>
345: <p>
346: <a name=mvme68k></a>
347: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>mvme68k</font></h3>
348: <ul>
349: <li>No problems identified yet.
350: </ul>
351: <p>
352: <a name=macppc></a>
353: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>macppc</font></h3>
354: <ul>
355: <a name=macppcinstall></a>
356: <li><font color=#009000><strong>009: INSTALLATION FIX: December 11, 2001</strong></font>
357: <br>
358: The 3.0 CD2 was created with an error which means that the instructions
359: for booting this architecture will not work. Instead, to boot the
360: CD, press Option-Command-O-F during power up to get into OpenFirmware
361: and then type:
362: <br>
363: <code>boot cd:,OFWBOOT /3.0/macppc/bsd.rd</code>
364: <p>
365: <a name=altivec></a>
366: <li><font color=#009000><strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
367: <br>
368: Execution of Altivec instructions will crash the kernel.
369: <br>
370: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/macppc/005_altivec.patch">A source code patch exists which remedies the problem</a>.
371: <p>
372: </ul>
373: <p>
374: <a name=vax></a>
375: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>vax</font></h3>
376: <ul>
377: <li>No problems identified yet.
378: </ul>
379:
380: </dl>
381: <br>
382:
383: <hr>
384: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
385: <a href=pkg-stable.html>For important packages updates, please refer here.</a><br>
386: <a href=errata21.html>For 2.1 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
387: <a href=errata22.html>For 2.2 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
388: <a href=errata23.html>For 2.3 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
389: <a href=errata24.html>For 2.4 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
390: <a href=errata25.html>For 2.5 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
391: <a href=errata26.html>For 2.6 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
392: <a href=errata27.html>For 2.7 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
393: <a href=errata28.html>For 2.8 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
394: <a href=errata29.html>For 2.9 errata, please refer here</a>.<br>
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