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1.1 deraadt 16: This is the OpenBSD 3.0 release errata & patch list:
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21: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
1.42 david 22: <a href=pkg-stable30.html>For important packages updates, please refer here.</a><br>
1.31 deraadt 23: <br>
1.32 deraadt 24: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.31 deraadt 25: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
26: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
27: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
28: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
29: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
30: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</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="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
1.41 deraadt 35: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
1.43 david 36: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
1.48 david 37: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
1.49 miod 38: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.50 deraadt 39: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
1.73 deraadt 40: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
1.58 deraadt 41: <br>
1.52 deraadt 42: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
1.53 deraadt 43: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
1.54 deraadt 44: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
1.56 merdely 45: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
1.57 deraadt 46: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.58 deraadt 47: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.60 deraadt 48: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.61 deraadt 49: <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
1.62 deraadt 50: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.64 deraadt 51: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.65 miod 52: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.66 nick 53: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.67 sthen 54: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.68 deraadt 55: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.69 deraadt 56: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.70 deraadt 57: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
1.73 deraadt 58: <br>
1.71 deraadt 59: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
60: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>.
1.31 deraadt 61: <br>
1.1 deraadt 62: <hr>
63:
1.63 sthen 64: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0.tar.gz">
1.1 deraadt 65: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
66: This file is updated once a day.
1.74 deraadt 67: <p>
1.1 deraadt 68:
1.74 deraadt 69: The patches below are available in CVS via the
1.1 deraadt 70: <code>OPENBSD_3_0</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.74 deraadt 71: <p>
1.1 deraadt 72:
1.74 deraadt 73: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
74: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
1.1 deraadt 75: <p>
1.74 deraadt 76:
1.1 deraadt 77: <hr>
78:
79: <ul>
1.45 david 80: <li><a name="named"></a>
1.77 deraadt 81: <font color="#009000"><strong>036: SECURITY FIX: November 14, 2002</strong></font>
82: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.36 millert 83: A buffer overflow in
1.71 deraadt 84: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8">named(8)</a>
1.36 millert 85: could allow an attacker to execute code with the privileges of named.
86: On OpenBSD, named runs as a non-root user in a chrooted environment
1.37 millert 87: which mitigates the effects of this bug.<br>
1.74 deraadt 88: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/036_named.patch">
89: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.36 millert 90: <p>
1.44 henning 91: <li><a name="kernresource"></a>
1.77 deraadt 92: <font color="#009000"><strong>035: SECURITY FIX: November 6, 2002</strong></font>
93: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.71 deraadt 94: Incorrect argument checking in the
1.35 miod 95: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=getrlimit&sektion=2">getrlimit(2)</a>
96: system call may allow an attacker to crash the kernel.<br>
1.74 deraadt 97: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/035_kernresource.patch">
98: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.35 miod 99: <p>
1.44 henning 100: <li><a name="smrsh"></a>
1.77 deraadt 101: <font color="#009000"><strong>034: SECURITY FIX: November 6, 2002</strong></font>
102: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.35 miod 103: An attacker can bypass the restrictions imposed by sendmail's restricted shell,
104: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=smrsh&sektion=8">smrsh(8)</a>,
105: and execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.<br>
1.74 deraadt 106: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/034_smrsh.patch">
107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.35 miod 108: <p>
1.44 henning 109: <li><a name="kadmin"></a>
1.77 deraadt 110: <font color="#009000"><strong>033: SECURITY FIX: October 21, 2002</strong></font>
111: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.34 miod 112: A buffer overflow can occur in the
113: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=kadmind&sektion=8">kadmind(8)</a>
114: daemon, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.<br>
1.74 deraadt 115: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/033_kadmin.patch">
116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.34 miod 117: <p>
1.44 henning 118: <li><a name="kerntime"></a>
1.77 deraadt 119: <font color="#009000"><strong>032: SECURITY FIX: October 7, 2002</strong></font>
120: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.71 deraadt 121: Incorrect argument checking in the
1.29 miod 122: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=setitimer&sektion=2">setitimer(2)</a> system call may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.<br>
1.74 deraadt 123: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/032_kerntime.patch">
124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.29 miod 125: <p>
1.44 henning 126: <li><a name="scarg"></a>
1.77 deraadt 127: <font color="#009000"><strong>031: SECURITY FIX: August 11, 2002</strong></font>
128: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.27 miod 129: An insufficient boundary check in the
130: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=select&sektion=2">select(2)</a>
1.28 provos 131: system call allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary
1.27 miod 132: code in kernel context.<br>
1.74 deraadt 133: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/031_scarg.patch">
134: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.27 miod 135: <p>
1.44 henning 136: <li><a name="ssl"></a>
1.77 deraadt 137: <font color="#009000"><strong>030: SECURITY FIX: July 30, 2002</strong></font>
138: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.71 deraadt 139: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3 client of the
140: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ssl&sektion=8">ssl(8)</a>
141: library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
142: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypto&sektion=3">crypto(3)</a>
1.26 jufi 143: library, all of them being potentially remotely exploitable.<br>
1.74 deraadt 144: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/030_ssl.patch">
145: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.40 david 146: <br>
147: This is the second version of the patch.
1.25 aaron 148: <p>
1.44 henning 149: <li><a name="xdr"></a>
1.77 deraadt 150: <font color="#009000"><strong>029: SECURITY FIX: July 29, 2002</strong></font>
151: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.71 deraadt 152: A buffer overflow can occur in the
153: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xdr_array&sektion=3">xdr_array(3)</a>
1.26 jufi 154: RPC code, leading to possible remote crash.<br>
1.74 deraadt 155: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/029_xdr.patch">
156: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.40 david 157: <br>
158: This is the second version of the patch.
1.25 aaron 159: <p>
1.44 henning 160: <li><a name="pppd"></a>
1.77 deraadt 161: <font color="#009000"><strong>028: SECURITY FIX: July 29, 2002</strong></font>
162: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.71 deraadt 163: A race condition exists in the
164: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pppd&sektion=8">pppd(8)</a>
1.26 jufi 165: daemon which may cause it to alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.<br>
1.74 deraadt 166: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/028_pppd.patch">
167: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.25 aaron 168: <p>
1.44 henning 169: <li><a name="isakmpd2"></a>
1.77 deraadt 170: <font color="#009000"><strong>027: RELIABILITY FIX: July 5, 2002</strong></font>
171: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.21 ho 172: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause
173: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a> to crash.<br>
1.74 deraadt 174: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/027_isakmpd.patch">
175: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.23 jufi 176: <br>
1.22 ho 177: This is the second version of the patch.
1.21 ho 178: <p>
1.44 henning 179: <li><a name="ktrace"></a>
1.77 deraadt 180: <font color="#009000"><strong>026: SECURITY FIX: June 27, 2002</strong></font>
181: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.19 horacio 182: 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>
1.74 deraadt 183: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/026_ktrace.patch">
184: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.17 miod 185: <p>
1.44 henning 186: <li><a name="resolver"></a>
1.77 deraadt 187: <font color="#009000"><strong>025: SECURITY FIX: June 25, 2002</strong></font>
188: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.13 millert 189: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.<br>
1.74 deraadt 190: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/025_resolver.patch">
191: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.13 millert 192: <p>
1.44 henning 193: <li><a name="sshdauth"></a>
1.77 deraadt 194: <font color="#009000"><strong>024: SECURITY FIX: June 24, 2002</strong></font>
195: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.20 deraadt 196: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an input validation
1.14 miod 197: error that can result in an integer overflow and privilege escalation.
198: This problem is fixed in <a href="http://www.openssh.com/openbsd.html">OpenSSH
199: 3.4</a>, and a patch for the vulnerable releases is available as part of the
200: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/txt/preauth.adv">security advisory</a>.
201: <p>
1.44 henning 202: <li><a name="modssl"></a>
1.77 deraadt 203: <font color="#009000"><strong>023: SECURITY FIX: June 24, 2002</strong></font>
204: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.14 miod 205: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in mod_ssl httpd
1.16 miod 206: module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.<br>
1.74 deraadt 207: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/023_mod_ssl.patch">
208: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.12 miod 209: <p>
1.44 henning 210: <li><a name="httpd"></a>
1.77 deraadt 211: <font color="#009000"><strong>022: SECURITY FIX: June 19, 2002</strong></font>
212: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.10 miod 213: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
1.11 brad 214: encoding in the http daemon, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.<br>
1.74 deraadt 215: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/022_httpd.patch">
216: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.10 miod 217: <p>
1.44 henning 218: <li><a name="fdalloc2"></a>
1.77 deraadt 219: <font color="#009000"><strong>021: SECURITY FIX: May 8, 2002</strong></font>
220: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.7 millert 221: A race condition exists where an attacker could fill the file descriptor
222: table and defeat the kernel's protection of fd slots 0, 1, and 2 for a
1.8 millert 223: setuid or setgid process.<br>
1.74 deraadt 224: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/021_fdalloc2.patch">
225: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7 millert 226: <p>
1.44 henning 227: <li><a name="sudo2"></a>
1.77 deraadt 228: <font color="#009000"><strong>020: SECURITY FIX: April 25, 2002</strong></font>
229: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.39 naddy 230: 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>
1.74 deraadt 231: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/020_sudo.patch">
232: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.5 millert 233: <p>
1.44 henning 234: <li><a name="sshafs"></a>
1.77 deraadt 235: <font color="#009000"><strong>019: SECURITY FIX: April 22, 2002</strong></font>
236: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.4 markus 237: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer overflow
1.39 naddy 238: in <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
1.4 markus 239: if AFS has been configured on the system or if
240: KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
241: in the sshd_config file. Ticket and token passing is not enabled
242: by default.<br>
1.74 deraadt 243: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/019_sshafs.patch">
244: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.4 markus 245: <p>
1.44 henning 246: <li><a name="mail"></a>
1.77 deraadt 247: <font color="#009000"><strong>018: SECURITY FIX: April 11, 2002</strong></font>
248: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.39 naddy 249: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mail&sektion=1">mail(1)</a>
1.1 deraadt 250: will process tilde escapes even in non-interactive mode.
251: This can lead to a local root compromise.
252: <br>
1.74 deraadt 253: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/018_mail.patch">
254: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 255: <p>
1.44 henning 256: <li><a name="isakmpd"></a>
1.77 deraadt 257: <font color="#009000"><strong>017: RELIABILITY FIX: March 26, 2002</strong></font>
258: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.39 naddy 259: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
1.1 deraadt 260: will crash when receiving a zero length IKE packet due to a too-late length check.
261: <br>
1.74 deraadt 262: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/017_isakmpd.patch">
263: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 264: <p>
1.44 henning 265: <li><a name="approval"></a>
1.77 deraadt 266: <font color="#009000"><strong>016: SECURITY FIX: March 19, 2002</strong></font>
267: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 268: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in the password
269: database, it is possible for the
1.39 naddy 270: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rexecd&sektion=8">rexecd(8)</a>
1.1 deraadt 271: and
1.39 naddy 272: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=rshd&sektion=8">rshd(8)</a>
1.1 deraadt 273: daemons to execute the shell from a different user's password entry.
274: Due to a similar problem,
1.39 naddy 275: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=atrun&sektion=8">atrun(8)</a>
1.1 deraadt 276: may change to the wrong home directory when running
1.39 naddy 277: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=at&sektion=1">at(1)</a>
1.1 deraadt 278: jobs.<br>
1.74 deraadt 279: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/016_approval.patch">
280: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 281: <p>
1.44 henning 282: <li><a name="zlib"></a>
1.77 deraadt 283: <font color="#009000"><strong>015: RELIABILITY FIX: March 13, 2002</strong></font>
284: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 285: Under some circumstances the zlib compression library can free dynamically
286: allocated memory twice. This is not a security issue on OpenBSD since the BSD
1.39 naddy 287: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=free&sektion=3">free(3)</a>
1.1 deraadt 288: function detects this.
1.38 jufi 289: There is also a kernel zlib component that may be used by pppd and IPsec.
1.1 deraadt 290: The feasibility of attacking the kernel this way is currently unknown.<br>
1.74 deraadt 291: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/015_zlib.patch">
292: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 293: <p>
1.44 henning 294: <li><a name="openssh"></a>
1.77 deraadt 295: <font color="#009000"><strong>014: SECURITY FIX: March 8, 2002</strong></font>
296: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 297: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to an off-by-one check
298: in the channel forwarding code of OpenSSH.<br>
1.74 deraadt 299: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/014_openssh.patch">
300: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 301: <p>
1.44 henning 302: <li><a name="syspipe"></a>
1.77 deraadt 303: <font color="#009000"><strong>013: RELIABILITY FIX: February 4, 2002</strong></font>
304: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 305: The wrong filedescriptors are released when pipe(2) failed.<br>
1.74 deraadt 306: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/013_syspipe.patch">
307: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 308: <p>
1.44 henning 309: <li><a name="ptrace"></a>
1.77 deraadt 310: <font color="#009000"><strong>012: SECURITY FIX: January 21, 2002</strong></font>
311: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 312: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls allows
313: an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid processes which
314: could lead to compromise of the super-user account.<br>
1.74 deraadt 315: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/012_ptrace.patch">
316: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 317: <p>
1.44 henning 318: <li><a name="sudo"></a>
1.77 deraadt 319: <font color="#009000"><strong>011: SECURITY FIX: January 17, 2002</strong></font>
320: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 321: If the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed on a system an
322: attacker may be able to gain root privileges on the local host via
323: sudo(8) which runs the mailer as root with an environment inherited
324: from the invoking user. While this is a bug in sudo it is not
325: believed to be possible to exploit when sendmail (the mailer that
326: ships with OpenBSD) is the mailer. As of version 1.6.5, sudo passes
327: the mailer an environment that is not subject to influence from the
328: invoking user.<br>
1.74 deraadt 329: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/011_sudo.patch">
330: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 331: <p>
1.44 henning 332: <li><a name="ipip"></a>
1.77 deraadt 333: <font color="#009000"><strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX: December 13, 2001</strong></font>
334: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.2 miod 335: Systems running with IP-in-IP encapsulation can be made to crash by
1.1 deraadt 336: malformed packets.<br>
1.74 deraadt 337: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/010_ipip.patch">
338: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 339: <p>
1.76 deraadt 340: <li><a name="macppcinstall"></a>
341: <font color="#009000"><strong>009: INSTALLATION FIX: December 11, 2001</strong></font>
342: <br>
343: The 3.0 CD2 was created with an error which means that the instructions
344: for booting this architecture will not work. Instead, to boot the
345: CD, press Option-Command-O-F during power up to get into OpenFirmware
346: and then type:
347: <br>
348: <code>boot cd:,OFWBOOT /3.0/macppc/bsd.rd</code>
349: <p>
1.44 henning 350: <li><a name="lpd"></a>
1.77 deraadt 351: <font color="#009000"><strong>008: SECURITY FIX: November 28, 2001</strong></font>
352: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 353: A security issue exists in the lpd daemon that may allow an attacker
354: to create arbitrary new files in the root directory. Only machines
355: with line printer access (ie: listed in either /etc/hosts.lpd or
356: /etc/hosts.equiv) may be used to mount an attack and the attacker
357: must have root access on the machine. OpenBSD does not start lpd
358: in the default installation.<br>
1.74 deraadt 359: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/008_lpd.patch">
360: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 361: <p>
1.44 henning 362: <li><a name="vi.recover"></a>
1.77 deraadt 363: <font color="#009000"><strong>007: SECURITY FIX: November 13, 2001</strong></font>
364: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 365: A security issue exists in the vi.recover script that may allow an attacker
366: to remove arbitrary zero-length files, regardless of ownership.
367: <br>
1.74 deraadt 368: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/007_recover.patch">
369: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 370: <p>
1.44 henning 371: <li><a name="pf"></a>
1.77 deraadt 372: <font color="#009000"><strong>006: SECURITY FIX: November 13, 2001</strong></font>
373: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.39 naddy 374: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a>
1.1 deraadt 375: was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets, resulting in a crash.
376: <br>
1.74 deraadt 377: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/006_pf.patch">
378: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 379: <p>
1.76 deraadt 380: <li><a name="altivec"></a>
381: <font color="#009000"><strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
382: <br>
383: Execution of Altivec instructions will crash the kernel.
384: <br>
385: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/macppc/005_altivec.patch">
386: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
387: <p>
388: <li><a name="hifn"></a>
389: <font color="#009000"><strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
390: <br>
391: Hifn7751 based cards may stop working on certain motherboards due to
392: DMA errors.
393: <br>
394: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/i386/004_hifn.patch">
395: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
396: <p>
397: <li><a name="sparc64cd"></a>
398: <font color="#009000"><strong>003: RELIABILITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
399: <br>
400: Access to a CD drive on the PCI ultrasparc machines results in a continuous stream
401: of bogus interrupt messages, causing great user anguish.
402: <br>
403: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/sparc64/003_sparc64cd.patch">
404: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
405: <p>
1.44 henning 406: <li><a name="sshd"></a>
1.77 deraadt 407: <font color="#009000"><strong>002: SECURITY FIX: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
408: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.39 naddy 409: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sshd&sektion=8">sshd(8)</a>
1.1 deraadt 410: is being upgraded from OpenSSH 3.0 to OpenSSH 3.0.2 to fix a few problems:
411: <p>
412: <ul>
413: <li>A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
414: if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.
415: <br>
416: By default, OpenSSH KerberosV support only becomes active after KerberosV
417: has been properly configured.
418: <p>
419: <li>An excessive memory clearing bug (which we believe to be unexploitable)
420: also exists, but since this may cause daemon crashes, we are providing a
421: patch as well.
422: <p>
423: <li>A vulnerability in environment passing in the <code>UseLogin</code>
1.71 deraadt 424: <i>sshd</i> option
1.1 deraadt 425: <p>
426: <li>Various other non-critical fixes.
427: </ul>
428: <p>
1.74 deraadt 429: Effectively an upgrade of OpenSSH 3.0 to OpenSSH 3.0.2.
430: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.0/common/002_ssh2.patch">
431: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 deraadt 432: This is the second version of this patch.
433: <p>
1.44 henning 434: <li><a name="hosts"></a>
1.77 deraadt 435: <font color="#009000"><strong>001: INSTALL ISSUE: November 12, 2001</strong></font>
436: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.1 deraadt 437: A small bug in the installation script causes the <tt>/etc/hosts</tt> file to
438: be incorrectly formed.<br>
439: The resulting file contains a line which reads like:<p>
440: <tt>
441: #.#.#.# hostname. hostname
442: </tt>
443: <p>
444: This line should actually read something like:<p>
445: <tt>
446: #.#.#.# hostname.domainname.com hostname
447: </tt>
448: <p>
449: To correct this problem, simply edit the file and insert the domainname in
450: the required place.
451: <p>
452: </ul>
453: <p>
1.72 deraadt 454:
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