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18: This is the OpenBSD 4.5 release errata & patch list:
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23: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
24: <a href=pkg-stable.html>For important packages updates, please refer here.</a><br>
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26: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
27: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
28: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
29: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
30: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
31: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
32: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
33: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
34: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
35: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
36: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
37: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
38: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
39: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
40: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
41: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
42: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
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44: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
45: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
46: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
47: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
48: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
49: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.3 deraadt 50: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.10 deraadt 51: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
52: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>.
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56: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5.tar.gz">
57: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
58: This file is updated once a day.
59:
60: <p> The patches below are available in CVS via the
61: <code>OPENBSD_4_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
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63: <p>
64: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
65: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
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1.15 ! sthen 89: <li><a name="011_ptrace"></a>
! 90: <font color="#009000"><strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX: January 29, 2010</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
! 91: By using ptrace(2) on an ancestor process, a loop in the process tree
! 92: could be created, violating assumptions in other parts of the kernel
! 93: and resulting in infinite loops.
! 94: <br>
! 95: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/011_ptrace.patch">
! 96: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
! 97: <p>
! 98:
1.14 sthen 99: <li><a name="010_openssl"></a>
100: <font color="#009000"><strong>010: SECURITY FIX: November 26, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
101: The SSL/TLS protocol is subject to man-in-the-middle attacks related to
102: renegotiation (see CVE-2009-3555, draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-00).
103: OpenSSL permitted this protocol feature by default and had no way to
104: disable it.
105: <br>
106: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/010_openssl.patch">
107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
108: <p>
109:
1.13 deraadt 110: <li><a name="009_getsockopt"></a>
111: <font color="#009000"><strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: October 28, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
112: getsockopt(2) with any of IP_AUTH_LEVEL, IP_ESP_TRANS_LEVEL, IP_ESP_NETWORK_LEVEL,
113: IP_IPCOMP_LEVEL will crash the system.
114: <br>
115: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/009_getsockopt.patch">
116: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
117: <p>
118:
1.12 jsing 119: <li><a name="008_xmm"></a>
120: <font color="#009000"><strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: October 05, 2009</strong></font> <i>i386 only</i><br>
121: XMM exceptions are not correctly handled resulting in a kernel panic.
122: <br>
123: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/008_xmm.patch">
124: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
125: <p>
126:
1.9 jasper 127: <li><a name="007_bind"></a>
128: <font color="#009000"><strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: July 29, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
129: A vulnerability has been found in BIND's named server
130: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0696">CVE-2009-0696</a>).
131: An attacker could crash a server with a specially crafted dynamic update message to a
132: zone for which the server is master.
133: <br>
1.11 jasper 134: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/007_bind.patch">
1.9 jasper 135: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
136: <p>
137:
1.8 fkr 138: <li><a name="006_perl"></a>
139: <font color="#009000"><strong>006: RELIABILITY FIX: June 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
140: An off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs in the
141: Compress::Raw::Zlib perl module before 2.017 (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1391">CVE-2009-1391</a>),
142: as used in AMaViS, SpamAssassin, and possibly other products,
143: allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
144: (hang or crash) via a crafted zlib compressed stream that
145: triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
146: <br>
147: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/006_perl_zlib.patch">
148: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
149: <p>
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1.1 djm 151:
1.7 ratchov 152: <li><a name="005_audio"></a>
153: <font color="#009000"><strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
154: On very high system load, an audio interrupt may occur while the
155: audio process is filling audio ring buffers. This triggers bogus
156: (and useless) correction code in the
157: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audio&sektion=4">audio(4)</a>
158: driver causing the audio application to go out of sync, and in turn causing
159: continuous stuttering until the application is restarted.
160: <br>
161: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/005_audio.patch">
162: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
163: <p>
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165: <li><a name="004_aucat"></a>
166: <font color="#009000"><strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
167: In server mode when in full-duplex mode (the default)
168: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>
169: will send each synchronization message twice, causing client applications
170: to think that buffer underruns are occuring. Depending on the
171: application, this may cause the sound to stutter.
172: <br>
173: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/004_aucat.patch">
174: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
175: <p>
176:
177: <li><a name="003_bus_dma"></a>
178: <font color="#009000"><strong>003: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>i386 only</i><br>
179: When DMA'able memory is mapped by device drivers, the
180: mapping flags and protection are partially uninitialized.
181: Depending on the calling context, this may cause devices to misbehave, like
182: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audio&sektion=4">audio(4)</a>
183: to stutter, but other anomalies might be observed for other
184: device types.
185: <br>
186: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/003_bus_dma.patch">
187: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
188: <p>
189:
1.4 sthen 190: <li><a name="002_pf"></a>
191: <font color="#009000"><strong>002: RELIABILITY FIX: April 11, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
192: When pf attempts to perform translation on a specially crafted IP datagram,
193: a null pointer dereference will occur, resulting in a kernel panic.
194: In certain configurations this may be triggered by a remote attacker.
1.5 sthen 195: <br>
1.4 sthen 196: Restricting translation rules to protocols that are specific to the IP version
197: in use, is an effective workaround until the patch can be installed. As an
198: example, for IPv4 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
199: <pre>
200: nat/rdr ... inet proto { tcp udp icmp } ...
201: </pre>
202: Or for IPv6 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
203: <pre>
204: nat/rdr ... inet6 proto { tcp udp icmp6 } ...
205: </pre>
206: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/002_pf.patch">
207: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
208: <p>
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1.1 djm 210: <li><a name="001_openssl"></a>
211: <font color="#009000"><strong>001: RELIABILITY FIX: April 8, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
212: The OpenSSL ASN.1 handling code could be forced to perform invalid memory
1.6 tobias 213: accesses through the use of certain invalid strings
1.1 djm 214: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0590">CVE-2009-0590</a>)
215: or under certain error conditions triggerable by invalid ASN.1 structures
216: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0789">CVE-2009-0789</a>).
217: These vulnerabilities could be exploited to achieve a
218: denial-of-service. A more detailed description of these problems is available
219: in the
220: <a href="http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt">OpenSSL security advisory</a>, but note that the other issue described there "Incorrect Error
221: Checking During CMS verification" relates to code not enabled in OpenBSD.
222: <br>
1.2 djm 223: <a href="ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/001_openssl.patch">
1.1 djm 224: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
225: <p>
226:
227: </ul>
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230: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
231: <a href=pkg-stable.html>For important packages updates, please refer here.</a><br>
232: <br>
233: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
234: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
235: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
236: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
237: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
238: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
239: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
240: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
241: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
242: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
243: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
244: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
245: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
246: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
247: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
248: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
249: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
250: <br>
251: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
252: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
253: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
254: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
255: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
256: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.3 deraadt 257: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.10 deraadt 258: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
259: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>.
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