This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
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Changes made between OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD 2.6
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This is a partial list of the major machine independent changes
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changes, starting with those listed below..
! Note: Problems for which patches exist are marked in red.
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changes, starting with those listed below..
! Note: Problems for which patches exist are marked in red.
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OpenBSD 2.6 released (December 1, 1999).
2.6 source tree frozen.
Merge in some critical ATAPI fixes.
Force FDSCRIPTS.
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RELIABILITY ISSUE: Fix a bug in the brooktree driver which permitted any user to crash some OpenBSD/i386 machines. A patch is available.
Separate help(1) command, and a separate help(1) man page.
Move wrapper handling to the child process, in sshd(8).
Various fixes for the bignum and RSA handling code in sshd(8).
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OpenBSD 2.6 released (December 1, 1999).
2.6 source tree frozen.
Merge in some critical ATAPI fixes.
Force FDSCRIPTS.
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RELIABILITY ISSUE: Fix a bug in the brooktree driver which permitted any user to crash some OpenBSD/i386 machines. A patch is available.
Separate help(1) command, and a separate help(1) man page.
Move wrapper handling to the child process, in sshd(8).
Various fixes for the bignum and RSA handling code in sshd(8).
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Fix buf overflow in amd(8).
Support AAA-131CF card in ahc(4) driver.
Check SACK hole validity better, and do sequence space arithmetic better.
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SECURITY ISSUE: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root. A patch is available.
Some fixes to newsyslog(8).
Disable SACK for now; some issues remain.
Buffer overflow fixes in from(1).
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Fix buf overflow in amd(8).
Support AAA-131CF card in ahc(4) driver.
Check SACK hole validity better, and do sequence space arithmetic better.
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SECURITY ISSUE: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root. A patch is available.
Some fixes to newsyslog(8).
Disable SACK for now; some issues remain.
Buffer overflow fixes in from(1).
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In pcmcia ep(4) driver, support 3CXEM556B-INT.
Remove useless if_ep shutdown hook.
Import USB code.
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SECURITY ISSUE: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not enabled by default). A patch is available.
Repair: probe svr4 emulation before linux once again.
Support -M and -N flags in uptime(1).
Detect IDT WinChip models.
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In pcmcia ep(4) driver, support 3CXEM556B-INT.
Remove useless if_ep shutdown hook.
Import USB code.
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SECURITY ISSUE: The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not enabled by default). A patch is available.
Repair: probe svr4 emulation before linux once again.