[BACK]Return to errata45.html CVS log [TXT][DIR] Up to [local] / www

Annotation of www/errata45.html, Revision 1.65

1.62      bentley     1: <!doctype html>
                      2: <html lang=en id=errata>
                      3: <meta charset=utf-8>
                      4:
1.50      tj          5: <title>OpenBSD 4.5 Errata</title>
1.1       djm         6: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD CD errata page">
1.49      deraadt     7: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
                      8: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="openbsd.css">
1.52      tb          9: <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.openbsd.org/errata45.html">
1.1       djm        10:
1.39      deraadt    11: <!--
                     12:                        IMPORTANT REMINDER
                     13:        IF YOU ADD A NEW ERRATUM, MAIL THE PATCH TO TECH AND ANNOUNCE
                     14: -->
                     15:
1.1       djm        16:
1.62      bentley    17: <h2 id=OpenBSD>
1.49      deraadt    18: <a href="index.html">
1.62      bentley    19: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
                     20: 4.5 Errata
1.50      tj         21: </h2>
1.49      deraadt    22: <hr>
1.1       djm        23:
                     24: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
                     25: <br>
                     26: For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
1.65    ! schwarze   27: <a href="errata20.html">2.0</a>,
1.1       djm        28: <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
                     29: <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
                     30: <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
                     31: <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
                     32: <a href="errata25.html">2.5</a>,
                     33: <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
                     34: <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
                     35: <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
                     36: <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
                     37: <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
                     38: <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
                     39: <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
                     40: <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
                     41: <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
                     42: <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
1.65    ! schwarze   43: <br>
1.1       djm        44: <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
                     45: <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
                     46: <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
                     47: <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
                     48: <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
                     49: <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
                     50: <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
1.3       deraadt    51: <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
1.10      deraadt    52: <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
1.16      deraadt    53: <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
1.26      deraadt    54: <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
1.27      miod       55: <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
1.28      nick       56: <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
1.29      sthen      57: <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
1.30      deraadt    58: <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
1.31      deraadt    59: <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
1.65    ! schwarze   60: <br>
1.32      deraadt    61: <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
1.33      deraadt    62: <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
1.38      jsg        63: <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
1.42      deraadt    64: <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
1.45      deraadt    65: <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
1.46      deraadt    66: <a href="errata58.html">5.8</a>,
1.51      deraadt    67: <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>,
1.54      tj         68: <a href="errata60.html">6.0</a>,
1.58      deraadt    69: <a href="errata61.html">6.1</a>,
1.59      deraadt    70: <a href="errata62.html">6.2</a>,
1.60      deraadt    71: <a href="errata63.html">6.3</a>,
1.61      deraadt    72: <a href="errata64.html">6.4</a>,
1.64      deraadt    73: <a href="errata65.html">6.5</a>,
                     74: <a href="errata66.html">6.6</a>.
1.1       djm        75: <hr>
                     76:
1.36      deraadt    77: <p>
1.54      tj         78: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
                     79: Each patch contains usage instructions.
                     80: All the following patches are also available in one
                     81: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
                     82: for convenience.
1.1       djm        83:
1.36      deraadt    84: <p>
1.54      tj         85: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.55      tj         86: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.36      deraadt    87:
1.1       djm        88: <hr>
                     89:
                     90: <ul>
1.22      jasper     91:
1.63      deraadt    92: <li id="p001_openssl">
                     93: <strong>001: RELIABILITY FIX: April 8, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt    94: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt    95: The OpenSSL ASN.1 handling code could be forced to perform invalid memory
                     96: accesses through the use of certain invalid strings
                     97: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0590">CVE-2009-0590</a>)
                     98: or under certain error conditions triggerable by invalid ASN.1 structures
                     99: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0789">CVE-2009-0789</a>).
                    100: These vulnerabilities could be exploited to achieve a
                    101: denial-of-service. A more detailed description of these problems is available
                    102: in the
                    103: <a href="http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt">OpenSSL security advisory</a>, but note that the other issue described there "Incorrect Error
                    104: Checking During CMS verification" relates to code not enabled in OpenBSD.
1.19      dlg       105: <br>
1.63      deraadt   106: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/001_openssl.patch">
1.36      deraadt   107: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.19      dlg       108: <p>
                    109:
1.63      deraadt   110: <li id="p002_pf">
                    111: <strong>002: RELIABILITY FIX: April 11, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   112: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   113: When pf attempts to perform translation on a specially crafted IP datagram,
                    114: a null pointer dereference will occur, resulting in a kernel panic.
                    115: In certain configurations this may be triggered by a remote attacker.
1.18      jasper    116: <br>
1.63      deraadt   117: Restricting translation rules to protocols that are specific to the IP version
                    118: in use, is an effective workaround until the patch can be installed. As an
                    119: example, for IPv4 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
                    120: <pre>
                    121:     nat/rdr ... inet proto { tcp udp icmp } ...
                    122: </pre>
                    123: Or for IPv6 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
                    124: <pre>
                    125:     nat/rdr ... inet6 proto { tcp udp icmp6 } ...
                    126: </pre>
                    127: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/002_pf.patch">
1.36      deraadt   128: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.18      jasper    129: <p>
                    130:
1.63      deraadt   131: <li id="p003_bus_dma">
                    132: <strong>003: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong>
                    133: &nbsp; <i>i386 only</i><br>
                    134: When DMA'able memory is mapped by device drivers, the
                    135: mapping flags and protection are partially uninitialized.
                    136: Depending on the calling context, this may cause devices to misbehave, like
                    137: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/audio.4">audio(4)</a>
                    138: to stutter, but other anomalies might be observed for other
                    139: device types.
1.17      jasper    140: <br>
1.63      deraadt   141: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/003_bus_dma.patch">
1.36      deraadt   142: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.17      jasper    143: <p>
                    144:
1.63      deraadt   145: <li id="p004_aucat">
                    146: <strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   147: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   148: In server mode when in full-duplex mode (the default)
                    149: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/aucat.1">aucat(1)</a>
                    150: will send each synchronization message twice, causing client applications
                    151: to think that buffer underruns are occuring.  Depending on the
                    152: application, this may cause the sound to stutter.
1.17      jasper    153: <br>
1.63      deraadt   154: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/004_aucat.patch">
1.36      deraadt   155: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.17      jasper    156: <p>
                    157:
1.63      deraadt   158: <li id="p005_audio">
                    159: <strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   160: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   161: On very high system load, an audio interrupt may occur while the
                    162: audio process is filling audio ring buffers. This triggers bogus
                    163: (and useless) correction code in the
                    164: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/audio.4">audio(4)</a>
                    165: driver causing the audio application to go out of sync, and in turn causing
                    166: continuous stuttering until the application is restarted.
1.15      sthen     167: <br>
1.63      deraadt   168: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/005_audio.patch">
1.36      deraadt   169: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.15      sthen     170: <p>
                    171:
1.63      deraadt   172: <li id="p006_perl">
                    173: <strong>006: RELIABILITY FIX: June 24, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   174: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   175: An off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs in the
                    176: 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>),
                    177: as used in AMaViS, SpamAssassin, and possibly other products,
                    178: allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
                    179: (hang or crash) via a crafted zlib compressed stream that
                    180: triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
1.14      sthen     181: <br>
1.63      deraadt   182: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/006_perl_zlib.patch">
1.36      deraadt   183: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.14      sthen     184: <p>
                    185:
1.63      deraadt   186: <li id="p007_bind">
                    187: <strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: July 29, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   188: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   189: A vulnerability has been found in BIND's named server
                    190: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0696">CVE-2009-0696</a>).
                    191: An attacker could crash a server with a specially crafted dynamic update message to a
                    192: zone for which the server is master.
1.13      deraadt   193: <br>
1.63      deraadt   194: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/007_bind.patch">
1.36      deraadt   195: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.13      deraadt   196: <p>
                    197:
1.56      tb        198: <li id="p008_xmm">
1.62      bentley   199: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: October 05, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   200: &nbsp; <i>i386 only</i><br>
1.12      jsing     201: XMM exceptions are not correctly handled resulting in a kernel panic.
                    202: <br>
1.53      tb        203: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/008_xmm.patch">
1.36      deraadt   204: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.12      jsing     205: <p>
                    206:
1.63      deraadt   207: <li id="p009_getsockopt">
                    208: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: October 28, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   209: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   210: getsockopt(2) with any of IP_AUTH_LEVEL, IP_ESP_TRANS_LEVEL, IP_ESP_NETWORK_LEVEL,
                    211: IP_IPCOMP_LEVEL will crash the system.
1.9       jasper    212: <br>
1.63      deraadt   213: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/009_getsockopt.patch">
1.36      deraadt   214: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.9       jasper    215: <p>
                    216:
1.63      deraadt   217: <li id="p010_openssl">
                    218: <strong>010: SECURITY FIX: November 26, 2009</strong>
1.37      deraadt   219: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   220: The SSL/TLS protocol is subject to man-in-the-middle attacks related to
                    221: renegotiation (see CVE-2009-3555, draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-00).
                    222: OpenSSL permitted this protocol feature by default and had no way to
                    223: disable it.
1.8       fkr       224: <br>
1.63      deraadt   225: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/010_openssl.patch">
1.36      deraadt   226: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.8       fkr       227: <p>
                    228:
1.63      deraadt   229: <li id="p011_ptrace">
                    230: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX: January 29, 2010</strong>
                    231: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
                    232: By using ptrace(2) on an ancestor process, a loop in the process tree
                    233: could be created, violating assumptions in other parts of the kernel
                    234: and resulting in infinite loops.
                    235: <br>
                    236: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/011_ptrace.patch">
                    237: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
                    238: <p>
1.1       djm       239:
1.63      deraadt   240: <li id="p012_openssl">
                    241: <strong>012: SECURITY FIX: March 12, 2010</strong>
1.37      deraadt   242: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   243: OpenSSL is susceptible to a buffer overflow due to a failure
                    244: to check for NULL returns from bn_wexpand function calls.
1.7       ratchov   245: <br>
1.63      deraadt   246: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/012_openssl.patch">
1.36      deraadt   247: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7       ratchov   248: <p>
                    249:
1.63      deraadt   250: <li id="p013_ftpd">
                    251: <strong>013: RELIABILITY FIX: March 12, 2010</strong>
1.37      deraadt   252: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   253: Due to a null pointer dereference, it would be possible to crash ftpd when
                    254: handling glob(3)'ing requests. This is non-exploitable.
1.7       ratchov   255: <br>
1.63      deraadt   256: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/013_ftpd.patch">
1.36      deraadt   257: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7       ratchov   258: <p>
                    259:
1.63      deraadt   260: <li id="p014_kerberos">
                    261: <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX: March 31, 2010</strong>
                    262: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
                    263: When decrypting packets, the internal decryption functions were not
                    264: paranoid enough in checking for underruns, which could potentially
                    265: lead to crashes.
1.7       ratchov   266: <br>
1.63      deraadt   267: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/014_kerberos.patch">
1.36      deraadt   268: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7       ratchov   269: <p>
                    270:
1.63      deraadt   271: <li id="p015_mpi">
                    272: <strong>015: RELIABILITY FIX: April 4, 2010</strong>
1.37      deraadt   273: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   274: When updating sensors showing the state of RAID volumes
                    275: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/mpi.4">mpi(4)</a>
                    276: allocates temporary memory and then returns it to the kernel as
                    277: device memory.
                    278: This causes kernel memory usage to be misrepresented, eventually
                    279: leading to a denial of service when a resource limit is apparently
                    280: reached.
1.5       sthen     281: <br>
1.63      deraadt   282: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/015_mpi.patch">
1.36      deraadt   283: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.4       sthen     284: <p>
                    285:
1.63      deraadt   286: <li id="p016_openssl">
                    287: <strong>016: SECURITY FIX: April 14, 2010</strong>
1.37      deraadt   288: &nbsp; <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63      deraadt   289: In TLS connections, certain incorrectly formatted records can cause
                    290: an OpenSSL client or server to crash due to a read attempt at NULL.
1.1       djm       291: <br>
1.63      deraadt   292: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/016_openssl.patch">
1.36      deraadt   293: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1       djm       294: <p>
                    295:
                    296: </ul>
                    297:
1.41      tedu      298: <hr>