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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>
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25: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
26: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
27: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
28: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
29: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
30: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
31: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
32: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
33: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
34: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
35: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
36: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
37: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
38: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
39: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
40: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
41: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
42: <br>
43: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
44: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
45: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
46: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
47: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
48: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.3 deraadt 49: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.10 deraadt 50: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.16 deraadt 51: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.26 deraadt 52: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.27 miod 53: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.28 nick 54: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.29 ! sthen 55: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
! 56: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>.
1.1 djm 57: <br>
58: <hr>
59:
1.25 sthen 60: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5.tar.gz">
1.1 djm 61: You can also fetch a tar.gz file containing all the following patches</a>.
62: This file is updated once a day.
63:
64: <p> The patches below are available in CVS via the
65: <code>OPENBSD_4_5</code> <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
66:
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68: For more detailed information on how to install patches to OpenBSD, please
69: consult the <a href="./faq/faq10.html#Patches">OpenBSD FAQ</a>.
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1.23 jasper 93: <li><a name="016_openssl"></a>
94: <font color="#009000"><strong>016: SECURITY FIX: April 14, 2010</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
95: In TLS connections, certain incorrectly formatted records can cause
96: an OpenSSL client or server to crash due to a read attempt at NULL.
97: <br>
1.25 sthen 98: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/016_openssl.patch">
1.23 jasper 99: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
100: <p>
1.22 jasper 101:
1.19 dlg 102: <li><a name="015_mpi"></a>
103: <font color="#009000"><strong>015: RELIABILITY FIX: April 4, 2010</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
104: When updating sensors showing the state of RAID volumes
105: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpi&sektion=4">mpi(4)</a>
106: allocates temporary memory and then returns it to the kernel as
107: device memory.
108: This causes kernel memory usage to be misrepresented, eventually
109: leading to a denial of service when a resource limit is apparently
110: reached.
111: <br>
1.25 sthen 112: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/015_mpi.patch">
1.19 dlg 113: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
114: <p>
115:
1.18 jasper 116: <li><a name="014_kerberos"></a>
117: <font color="#009000"><strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX: March 31, 2010</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
118: When decrypting packets, the internal decryption functions were not
119: paranoid enough in checking for underruns, which could potentially
120: lead to crashes.
121: <br>
1.25 sthen 122: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/014_kerberos.patch">
1.18 jasper 123: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
124: <p>
125:
1.17 jasper 126: <li><a name="013_ftpd"></a>
127: <font color="#009000"><strong>013: RELIABILITY FIX: March 12, 2010</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
128: Due to a null pointer dereference, it would be possible to crash ftpd when
129: handling glob(3)'ing requests. This is non-exploitable.
130: <br>
1.25 sthen 131: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/013_ftpd.patch">
1.17 jasper 132: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
133: <p>
134:
135: <li><a name="012_openssl"></a>
136: <font color="#009000"><strong>012: SECURITY FIX: March 12, 2010</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
137: OpenSSL is susceptible to a buffer overflow due to a failure
138: to check for NULL returns from bn_wexpand function calls.
139: <br>
1.25 sthen 140: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/012_openssl.patch">
1.17 jasper 141: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
142: <p>
143:
1.15 sthen 144: <li><a name="011_ptrace"></a>
145: <font color="#009000"><strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX: January 29, 2010</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
146: By using ptrace(2) on an ancestor process, a loop in the process tree
147: could be created, violating assumptions in other parts of the kernel
148: and resulting in infinite loops.
149: <br>
1.25 sthen 150: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/011_ptrace.patch">
1.15 sthen 151: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
152: <p>
153:
1.14 sthen 154: <li><a name="010_openssl"></a>
155: <font color="#009000"><strong>010: SECURITY FIX: November 26, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
156: The SSL/TLS protocol is subject to man-in-the-middle attacks related to
157: renegotiation (see CVE-2009-3555, draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-00).
158: OpenSSL permitted this protocol feature by default and had no way to
159: disable it.
160: <br>
1.25 sthen 161: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/010_openssl.patch">
1.14 sthen 162: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
163: <p>
164:
1.13 deraadt 165: <li><a name="009_getsockopt"></a>
166: <font color="#009000"><strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: October 28, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
167: getsockopt(2) with any of IP_AUTH_LEVEL, IP_ESP_TRANS_LEVEL, IP_ESP_NETWORK_LEVEL,
168: IP_IPCOMP_LEVEL will crash the system.
169: <br>
1.25 sthen 170: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/009_getsockopt.patch">
1.13 deraadt 171: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
172: <p>
173:
1.12 jsing 174: <li><a name="008_xmm"></a>
175: <font color="#009000"><strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: October 05, 2009</strong></font> <i>i386 only</i><br>
176: XMM exceptions are not correctly handled resulting in a kernel panic.
177: <br>
1.25 sthen 178: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/008_xmm.patch">
1.12 jsing 179: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
180: <p>
181:
1.9 jasper 182: <li><a name="007_bind"></a>
183: <font color="#009000"><strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: July 29, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
184: A vulnerability has been found in BIND's named server
185: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0696">CVE-2009-0696</a>).
186: An attacker could crash a server with a specially crafted dynamic update message to a
187: zone for which the server is master.
188: <br>
1.25 sthen 189: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/007_bind.patch">
1.9 jasper 190: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
191: <p>
192:
1.8 fkr 193: <li><a name="006_perl"></a>
194: <font color="#009000"><strong>006: RELIABILITY FIX: June 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
195: An off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs in the
196: 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>),
197: as used in AMaViS, SpamAssassin, and possibly other products,
198: allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
199: (hang or crash) via a crafted zlib compressed stream that
200: triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
201: <br>
1.25 sthen 202: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/006_perl_zlib.patch">
1.8 fkr 203: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
204: <p>
205:
1.1 djm 206:
1.7 ratchov 207: <li><a name="005_audio"></a>
208: <font color="#009000"><strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
209: On very high system load, an audio interrupt may occur while the
210: audio process is filling audio ring buffers. This triggers bogus
211: (and useless) correction code in the
212: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audio&sektion=4">audio(4)</a>
213: driver causing the audio application to go out of sync, and in turn causing
214: continuous stuttering until the application is restarted.
215: <br>
1.25 sthen 216: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/005_audio.patch">
1.7 ratchov 217: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
218: <p>
219:
220: <li><a name="004_aucat"></a>
221: <font color="#009000"><strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
222: In server mode when in full-duplex mode (the default)
223: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=aucat&sektion=1">aucat(1)</a>
224: will send each synchronization message twice, causing client applications
225: to think that buffer underruns are occuring. Depending on the
226: application, this may cause the sound to stutter.
227: <br>
1.25 sthen 228: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/004_aucat.patch">
1.7 ratchov 229: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
230: <p>
231:
232: <li><a name="003_bus_dma"></a>
233: <font color="#009000"><strong>003: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong></font> <i>i386 only</i><br>
234: When DMA'able memory is mapped by device drivers, the
235: mapping flags and protection are partially uninitialized.
236: Depending on the calling context, this may cause devices to misbehave, like
237: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=audio&sektion=4">audio(4)</a>
238: to stutter, but other anomalies might be observed for other
239: device types.
240: <br>
1.25 sthen 241: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/003_bus_dma.patch">
1.7 ratchov 242: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
243: <p>
244:
1.4 sthen 245: <li><a name="002_pf"></a>
246: <font color="#009000"><strong>002: RELIABILITY FIX: April 11, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
247: When pf attempts to perform translation on a specially crafted IP datagram,
248: a null pointer dereference will occur, resulting in a kernel panic.
249: In certain configurations this may be triggered by a remote attacker.
1.5 sthen 250: <br>
1.4 sthen 251: Restricting translation rules to protocols that are specific to the IP version
252: in use, is an effective workaround until the patch can be installed. As an
253: example, for IPv4 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
254: <pre>
255: nat/rdr ... inet proto { tcp udp icmp } ...
256: </pre>
257: Or for IPv6 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
258: <pre>
259: nat/rdr ... inet6 proto { tcp udp icmp6 } ...
260: </pre>
1.25 sthen 261: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/002_pf.patch">
1.4 sthen 262: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
263: <p>
264:
1.1 djm 265: <li><a name="001_openssl"></a>
266: <font color="#009000"><strong>001: RELIABILITY FIX: April 8, 2009</strong></font> <i>All architectures</i><br>
267: The OpenSSL ASN.1 handling code could be forced to perform invalid memory
1.6 tobias 268: accesses through the use of certain invalid strings
1.1 djm 269: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0590">CVE-2009-0590</a>)
270: or under certain error conditions triggerable by invalid ASN.1 structures
271: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0789">CVE-2009-0789</a>).
272: These vulnerabilities could be exploited to achieve a
273: denial-of-service. A more detailed description of these problems is available
274: in the
275: <a href="http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt">OpenSSL security advisory</a>, but note that the other issue described there "Incorrect Error
276: Checking During CMS verification" relates to code not enabled in OpenBSD.
277: <br>
1.25 sthen 278: <a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/001_openssl.patch">
1.1 djm 279: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem</a>.<br>
280: <p>
281:
282: </ul>
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285: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
286: <br>
287: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
288: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
289: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
290: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
291: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
292: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
293: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
294: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
295: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
296: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
297: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
298: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
299: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
300: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
301: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
302: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
303: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
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305: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
306: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
307: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
308: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
309: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
310: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.3 deraadt 311: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.10 deraadt 312: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.16 deraadt 313: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.26 deraadt 314: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.27 miod 315: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.28 nick 316: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.29 ! sthen 317: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
! 318: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>.
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