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1.1 djm 23:
24: <a href=stable.html>For OpenBSD patch branch information, please refer here.</a><br>
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84:
1.36 deraadt 85: <p>
1.54 tj 86: Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
87: Each patch contains usage instructions.
88: All the following patches are also available in one
89: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
90: for convenience.
1.1 djm 91:
1.36 deraadt 92: <p>
1.54 tj 93: Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
1.55 tj 94: <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
1.36 deraadt 95:
1.1 djm 96: <hr>
97:
98: <ul>
1.22 jasper 99:
1.63 deraadt 100: <li id="p001_openssl">
101: <strong>001: RELIABILITY FIX: April 8, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 102: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 103: The OpenSSL ASN.1 handling code could be forced to perform invalid memory
104: accesses through the use of certain invalid strings
105: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0590">CVE-2009-0590</a>)
106: or under certain error conditions triggerable by invalid ASN.1 structures
107: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0789">CVE-2009-0789</a>).
108: These vulnerabilities could be exploited to achieve a
109: denial-of-service. A more detailed description of these problems is available
110: in the
111: <a href="http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090325.txt">OpenSSL security advisory</a>, but note that the other issue described there "Incorrect Error
112: Checking During CMS verification" relates to code not enabled in OpenBSD.
1.19 dlg 113: <br>
1.63 deraadt 114: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/001_openssl.patch">
1.36 deraadt 115: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.19 dlg 116: <p>
117:
1.63 deraadt 118: <li id="p002_pf">
119: <strong>002: RELIABILITY FIX: April 11, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 120: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 121: When pf attempts to perform translation on a specially crafted IP datagram,
122: a null pointer dereference will occur, resulting in a kernel panic.
123: In certain configurations this may be triggered by a remote attacker.
1.18 jasper 124: <br>
1.63 deraadt 125: Restricting translation rules to protocols that are specific to the IP version
126: in use, is an effective workaround until the patch can be installed. As an
127: example, for IPv4 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
128: <pre>
129: nat/rdr ... inet proto { tcp udp icmp } ...
130: </pre>
131: Or for IPv6 nat/binat/rdr rules you can use:
132: <pre>
133: nat/rdr ... inet6 proto { tcp udp icmp6 } ...
134: </pre>
135: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/002_pf.patch">
1.36 deraadt 136: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.18 jasper 137: <p>
138:
1.63 deraadt 139: <li id="p003_bus_dma">
140: <strong>003: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong>
141: <i>i386 only</i><br>
142: When DMA'able memory is mapped by device drivers, the
143: mapping flags and protection are partially uninitialized.
144: Depending on the calling context, this may cause devices to misbehave, like
145: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/audio.4">audio(4)</a>
146: to stutter, but other anomalies might be observed for other
147: device types.
1.17 jasper 148: <br>
1.63 deraadt 149: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/003_bus_dma.patch">
1.36 deraadt 150: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.17 jasper 151: <p>
152:
1.63 deraadt 153: <li id="p004_aucat">
154: <strong>004: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 155: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 156: In server mode when in full-duplex mode (the default)
157: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/aucat.1">aucat(1)</a>
158: will send each synchronization message twice, causing client applications
1.68 jsg 159: to think that buffer underruns are occurring. Depending on the
1.63 deraadt 160: application, this may cause the sound to stutter.
1.17 jasper 161: <br>
1.63 deraadt 162: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/004_aucat.patch">
1.36 deraadt 163: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.17 jasper 164: <p>
165:
1.63 deraadt 166: <li id="p005_audio">
167: <strong>005: RELIABILITY FIX: April 24, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 168: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 169: On very high system load, an audio interrupt may occur while the
170: audio process is filling audio ring buffers. This triggers bogus
171: (and useless) correction code in the
172: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/audio.4">audio(4)</a>
173: driver causing the audio application to go out of sync, and in turn causing
174: continuous stuttering until the application is restarted.
1.15 sthen 175: <br>
1.63 deraadt 176: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/005_audio.patch">
1.36 deraadt 177: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.15 sthen 178: <p>
179:
1.63 deraadt 180: <li id="p006_perl">
181: <strong>006: RELIABILITY FIX: June 24, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 182: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 183: An off-by-one error in the inflate function in Zlib.xs in the
184: 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>),
185: as used in AMaViS, SpamAssassin, and possibly other products,
186: allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
187: (hang or crash) via a crafted zlib compressed stream that
188: triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
1.14 sthen 189: <br>
1.63 deraadt 190: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/006_perl_zlib.patch">
1.36 deraadt 191: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.14 sthen 192: <p>
193:
1.63 deraadt 194: <li id="p007_bind">
195: <strong>007: RELIABILITY FIX: July 29, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 196: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 197: A vulnerability has been found in BIND's named server
198: (<a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0696">CVE-2009-0696</a>).
199: An attacker could crash a server with a specially crafted dynamic update message to a
200: zone for which the server is master.
1.13 deraadt 201: <br>
1.63 deraadt 202: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/007_bind.patch">
1.36 deraadt 203: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.13 deraadt 204: <p>
205:
1.56 tb 206: <li id="p008_xmm">
1.62 bentley 207: <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: October 05, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 208: <i>i386 only</i><br>
1.12 jsing 209: XMM exceptions are not correctly handled resulting in a kernel panic.
210: <br>
1.53 tb 211: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/i386/008_xmm.patch">
1.36 deraadt 212: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.12 jsing 213: <p>
214:
1.63 deraadt 215: <li id="p009_getsockopt">
216: <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: October 28, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 217: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 218: getsockopt(2) with any of IP_AUTH_LEVEL, IP_ESP_TRANS_LEVEL, IP_ESP_NETWORK_LEVEL,
219: IP_IPCOMP_LEVEL will crash the system.
1.9 jasper 220: <br>
1.63 deraadt 221: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/009_getsockopt.patch">
1.36 deraadt 222: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.9 jasper 223: <p>
224:
1.63 deraadt 225: <li id="p010_openssl">
226: <strong>010: SECURITY FIX: November 26, 2009</strong>
1.37 deraadt 227: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 228: The SSL/TLS protocol is subject to man-in-the-middle attacks related to
229: renegotiation (see CVE-2009-3555, draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation-00).
230: OpenSSL permitted this protocol feature by default and had no way to
231: disable it.
1.8 fkr 232: <br>
1.63 deraadt 233: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/010_openssl.patch">
1.36 deraadt 234: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.8 fkr 235: <p>
236:
1.63 deraadt 237: <li id="p011_ptrace">
238: <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX: January 29, 2010</strong>
239: <i>All architectures</i><br>
240: By using ptrace(2) on an ancestor process, a loop in the process tree
241: could be created, violating assumptions in other parts of the kernel
242: and resulting in infinite loops.
243: <br>
244: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/011_ptrace.patch">
245: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
246: <p>
1.1 djm 247:
1.63 deraadt 248: <li id="p012_openssl">
249: <strong>012: SECURITY FIX: March 12, 2010</strong>
1.37 deraadt 250: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 251: OpenSSL is susceptible to a buffer overflow due to a failure
252: to check for NULL returns from bn_wexpand function calls.
1.7 ratchov 253: <br>
1.63 deraadt 254: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/012_openssl.patch">
1.36 deraadt 255: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7 ratchov 256: <p>
257:
1.63 deraadt 258: <li id="p013_ftpd">
259: <strong>013: RELIABILITY FIX: March 12, 2010</strong>
1.37 deraadt 260: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 261: Due to a null pointer dereference, it would be possible to crash ftpd when
262: handling glob(3)'ing requests. This is non-exploitable.
1.7 ratchov 263: <br>
1.63 deraadt 264: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/013_ftpd.patch">
1.36 deraadt 265: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7 ratchov 266: <p>
267:
1.63 deraadt 268: <li id="p014_kerberos">
269: <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX: March 31, 2010</strong>
270: <i>All architectures</i><br>
271: When decrypting packets, the internal decryption functions were not
272: paranoid enough in checking for underruns, which could potentially
273: lead to crashes.
1.7 ratchov 274: <br>
1.63 deraadt 275: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/014_kerberos.patch">
1.36 deraadt 276: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.7 ratchov 277: <p>
278:
1.63 deraadt 279: <li id="p015_mpi">
280: <strong>015: RELIABILITY FIX: April 4, 2010</strong>
1.37 deraadt 281: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 282: When updating sensors showing the state of RAID volumes
283: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-4.5/mpi.4">mpi(4)</a>
284: allocates temporary memory and then returns it to the kernel as
285: device memory.
286: This causes kernel memory usage to be misrepresented, eventually
287: leading to a denial of service when a resource limit is apparently
288: reached.
1.5 sthen 289: <br>
1.63 deraadt 290: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/015_mpi.patch">
1.36 deraadt 291: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.4 sthen 292: <p>
293:
1.63 deraadt 294: <li id="p016_openssl">
295: <strong>016: SECURITY FIX: April 14, 2010</strong>
1.37 deraadt 296: <i>All architectures</i><br>
1.63 deraadt 297: In TLS connections, certain incorrectly formatted records can cause
298: an OpenSSL client or server to crash due to a read attempt at NULL.
1.1 djm 299: <br>
1.63 deraadt 300: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.5/common/016_openssl.patch">
1.36 deraadt 301: A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
1.1 djm 302: <p>
303:
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