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

Annotation of www/security.html, Revision 1.211

1.1       deraadt     1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC  "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
                      2: <html>
                      3: <head>
1.20      deraadt     4: <title>OpenBSD Security</title>
1.1       deraadt     5: <link rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>
                      6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
                      7: <meta name="description" content="OpenBSD advisories">
                      8: <meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,main">
                      9: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.193     horacio    10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1997-2002 by OpenBSD.">
1.1       deraadt    11: </head>
                     12:
                     13: <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#23238E">
1.210     jsyn       14: <a href="index.html"><img alt="[OpenBSD]" height="30" width="141" src="images/smalltitle.gif" border="0"></a>
1.106     deraadt    15: <p>
1.110     deraadt    16: <h2><font color=#e00000>Security</font><hr></h2>
1.1       deraadt    17:
1.114     philen     18: <table width="100%">
                     19: <tr>
                     20: <td colspan="2">
                     21: <strong>Index</strong>
                     22: </td>
                     23: </tr>
                     24: <tr>
                     25: <td valign="top">
1.106     deraadt    26: <a href=#goals>Security goals of the Project</a>.<br>
                     27: <a href=#disclosure>Full Disclosure policy</a>.<br>
                     28: <a href=#process>Source code auditing process</a>.<br>
1.111     aaron      29: <a href=#default>"Secure by Default"</a>.<br>
1.106     deraadt    30: <a href=#crypto>Use of Cryptography</a>.<br>
                     31: <p>
                     32: <a href=#watching>Watching changes</a>.<br>
                     33: <a href=#reporting>Reporting security issues</a>.<br>
1.107     deraadt    34: <a href=#papers>Further Reading</a><br>
1.106     deraadt    35: <p>
1.114     philen     36: </td>
                     37: <td valign="top">
1.204     jufi       38: <a href="#31">For 3.1 security advisories</a>.<br>
1.187     deraadt    39: <a href="#30">For 3.0 security advisories</a>.<br>
1.173     deraadt    40: <a href="#29">For 2.9 security advisories</a>.<br>
1.152     deraadt    41: <a href="#28">For 2.8 security advisories</a>.<br>
1.124     deraadt    42: <a href="#27">For 2.7 security advisories</a>.<br>
1.119     deraadt    43: <a href="#26">For 2.6 security advisories</a>.<br>
1.114     philen     44: <a href="#25">For 2.5 security advisories</a>.<br>
                     45: <a href="#24">For 2.4 security advisories</a>.<br>
                     46: <a href="#23">For 2.3 security advisories</a>.<br>
                     47: <a href="#22">For 2.2 security advisories</a>.<br>
                     48: <a href="#21">For 2.1 security advisories</a>.<br>
                     49: <a href="#20">For 2.0 security advisories</a>.<br>
                     50: </td>
                     51: </tr>
                     52: </table>
1.56      deraadt    53: <hr>
                     54:
1.106     deraadt    55: <dl>
                     56: <a name=goals></a>
1.110     deraadt    57: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Goal</font></h3><p>
1.22      deraadt    58:
1.14      deraadt    59: OpenBSD believes in strong security.  Our aspiration is to be NUMBER
1.22      deraadt    60: ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there).  Our
                     61: open software development model permits us to take a more
                     62: uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP,
                     63: or other vendors are able to.  We can make changes the vendors would
1.27      deraadt    64: not make.  Also, since OpenBSD is exported with <a href=crypto.html>
1.45      deraadt    65: cryptography</a>, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards
                     66: fixing security problems.<p>
1.18      deraadt    67:
1.106     deraadt    68: <a name=disclosure></a>
1.110     deraadt    69: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Full Disclosure</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt    70:
1.45      deraadt    71: Like many readers of the
1.196     jufi       72: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">
1.18      deraadt    73: BUGTRAQ mailing list</a>,
1.106     deraadt    74: we believe in full disclosure of security problems.  In the
                     75: operating system arena, we were probably the first to embrace
                     76: the concept.  Many vendors, even of free software, still try
                     77: to hide issues from their users.<p>
                     78:
                     79: Security information moves very fast in cracker circles.  On the other
                     80: hand, our experience is that coding and releasing of proper security
                     81: fixes typically requires about an hour of work -- very fast fix
                     82: turnaround is possible.  Thus we think that full disclosure helps the
                     83: people who really care about security.<p>
                     84:
1.153     jufi       85: <a name=process></a>
1.110     deraadt    86: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Audit Process</font></h3><p>
1.15      deraadt    87:
1.12      deraadt    88: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
1.45      deraadt    89: members who continue to search for and fix new security holes.  We
                     90: have been auditing since the summer of 1996.  The process we follow to
                     91: increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of
1.106     deraadt    92: every critical software component.  We are not so much looking for
                     93: security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if
1.138     deraadt    94: years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security
1.106     deraadt    95: issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the
                     96: better.  Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system.
                     97: Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our
                     98: audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs
                     99: re-auditing with these new flaws in mind.  Code often gets audited
                    100: multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing
                    101: skills.<p>
1.12      deraadt   102:
1.94      deraadt   103: Some members of our security auditing team worked for Secure Networks,
                    104: the company that made the industry's premier network security scanning
                    105: software package Ballista (Secure Networks got purchased by Network
                    106: Associates, Ballista got renamed to Cybercop Scanner, and well...)
                    107: That company did a lot of security research, and thus fit in well
1.106     deraadt   108: with the OpenBSD stance.  OpenBSD passed Ballista's tests with flying
                    109: colours since day 1.<p>
1.31      deraadt   110:
1.34      deraadt   111: Another facet of our security auditing process is its proactiveness.
1.45      deraadt   112: In most cases we have found that the determination of exploitability
                    113: is not an issue.  During our ongoing auditing process we find many
                    114: bugs, and endeavor to fix them even though exploitability is not
                    115: proven.  We fix the bug, and we move on to find other bugs to fix.  We
                    116: have fixed many simple and obvious careless programming errors in code
                    117: and only months later discovered that the problems were in fact
                    118: exploitable.  (Or, more likely someone on
1.197     jufi      119: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>
1.45      deraadt   120: would report that other operating systems were vulnerable to a `newly
                    121: discovered problem', and then it would be discovered that OpenBSD had
                    122: been fixed in a previous release).  In other cases we have been saved
                    123: from full exploitability of complex step-by-step attacks because we
                    124: had fixed one of the intermediate steps.  An example of where we
1.94      deraadt   125: managed such a success is the lpd advisory that Secure Networks put out.
                    126: <p>
1.29      deraadt   127:
1.110     deraadt   128: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>The Reward</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   129:
1.45      deraadt   130: Our proactive auditing process has really paid off.  Statements like
1.35      deraadt   131: ``This problem was fixed in OpenBSD about 6 months ago'' have become
1.45      deraadt   132: commonplace in security forums like
1.197     jufi      133: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>.<p>
1.35      deraadt   134:
1.45      deraadt   135: The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately
1.80      espie     136: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0-&gt;2.1 transition,
1.45      deraadt   137: over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997.  Thousands (yes,
                    138: thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long
                    139: period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol
                    140: implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem
                    141: races.  Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were
                    142: fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed
                    143: fixing for our 2.2 release.  We do not find as many problems anymore,
                    144: it is simply a case of diminishing returns.  Recently the security
                    145: problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or
                    146: complicated.  Still we will persist for a number of reasons:<p>
1.36      deraadt   147:
1.35      deraadt   148: <ul>
1.45      deraadt   149: <li>Occasionally we find a simple problem we missed earlier. Doh!
1.35      deraadt   150: <li>Security is like an arms race; the best attackers will continue
1.45      deraadt   151:        to search for more complicated exploits, so we will too.
                    152: <li>Finding and fixing subtle flaws in complicated software is
                    153:        a lot of fun.
1.35      deraadt   154: </ul>
1.106     deraadt   155: <p>
1.15      deraadt   156:
1.14      deraadt   157: The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue
1.28      deraadt   158: to find and fix new security flaws.<p>
1.12      deraadt   159:
1.106     deraadt   160: <a name=default></a>
1.110     deraadt   161: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>"Secure by Default"</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   162:
                    163: To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security
                    164: experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we
                    165: ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode.  All non-essential
                    166: services are disabled.  As the user/administrator becomes more familiar
                    167: with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other
                    168: parts of the system.  During the process of learning how to enable a new
                    169: service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.<p>
                    170:
                    171: This is in stark contrast to the increasing number of systems that
                    172: ship with NFS, mountd, web servers, and various other services enabled
                    173: by default, creating instantaneous security problems for their users
                    174: within minutes after their first install.<p>
                    175:
1.153     jufi      176: <a name=crypto></a>
1.110     deraadt   177: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Cryptography</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   178:
                    179: And of course, since the OpenBSD project is based in Canada, it is possible
                    180: for us to integrate cryptography.  For more information, read the page
1.116     deraadt   181: outlining <a href=crypto.html>what we have done with cryptography</a>.</p>
1.106     deraadt   182:
1.110     deraadt   183: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Advisories</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   184:
                    185: <dl>
                    186:
                    187: <li>
1.203     deraadt   188: <a name=31></a>
                    189:
                    190: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    191: These are the OpenBSD 3.1 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    192: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
                    193: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
                    194:
                    195: <p>
                    196: <ul>
1.211   ! miod      197: <li><a href=errata.html#httpd>June 19, 2002:
        !           198:        A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
        !           199:        encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.209     markus    200: <li><a href=errata.html#sshbsdauth>May 22, 2002:
                    201:         Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups
                    202:         in the password database, it is possible that sshd(8) does
                    203:         ACL checks for the requested user name but uses the password
                    204:         database entry of a different user for authentication.  This
                    205:         means that denied users might authenticate successfully
                    206:         while permitted users could be locked out.</a>
1.208     millert   207: <li><a href=errata.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
                    208:        A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
                    209:        protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.205     millert   210: <li><a href=errata.html#sudo>April 25, 2002:
                    211:        A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
                    212: <li><a href=errata.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
                    213:         A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
                    214:         overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
                    215:         or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
                    216:         in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203     deraadt   217: </ul>
                    218:
                    219: <p>
                    220:
                    221: <li>
1.187     deraadt   222: <a name=30></a>
                    223:
                    224: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    225: These are the OpenBSD 3.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    226: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
                    227: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
                    228:
                    229: <p>
                    230: <ul>
1.208     millert   231: <li><a href=errata30.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
                    232:        A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
                    233:        protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.205     millert   234: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
                    235:        A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
                    236: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
                    237:         A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
                    238:         overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
                    239:         or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
                    240:         in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203     deraadt   241: <li><a href=errata30.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
1.202     millert   242:        The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
                    243:        in non-interactive mode.  As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
                    244:        this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.203     deraadt   245: <li><a href=errata30.html#approval>March 19, 2002:
1.201     millert   246:        Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in
                    247:        the password database, it is possible for the rexecd(8) and rshd(8)
                    248:        daemons to execute a shell from a password database entry for a
                    249:        different user. Similarly, atrun(8) may change to the wrong
                    250:        home directory when running jobs.</a>
1.203     deraadt   251: <li><a href=errata30.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
1.200     millert   252:        A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
                    253:        this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
                    254:        The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
                    255:        currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.203     deraadt   256: <li><a href=errata30.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
1.198     millert   257:        An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199     jufi      258:        may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.203     deraadt   259: <li><a href=errata30.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
1.192     jason     260:        A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
                    261:        allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
                    262:        processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.203     deraadt   263: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
1.191     millert   264:        There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
                    265:        when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
                    266:        allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.203     deraadt   267: <li><a href=errata30.html#lpd>November 28, 2001:
1.189     millert   268:        An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
                    269:        creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
                    270:        remote line printer access.</a>
1.203     deraadt   271: <li><a href=errata30.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
1.188     millert   272:        The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
                    273:        to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.203     deraadt   274: <li><a href=errata30.html#pf>November 13, 2001:
1.190     mpech     275:        pf(4) was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets,
                    276:        resulting in a crash.</a>
1.203     deraadt   277: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshd>November 12, 2001:
1.190     mpech     278:        A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
                    279:        if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.</a>
1.187     deraadt   280: </ul>
                    281:
                    282: <p>
                    283: <li>
1.173     deraadt   284: <a name=29></a>
                    285:
                    286: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    287: These are the OpenBSD 2.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    288: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
1.179     jufi      289: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
1.173     deraadt   290:
                    291: <p>
                    292: <ul>
1.208     millert   293: <li><a href=errata29.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
                    294:        A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
                    295:        protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.207     millert   296: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
                    297:        A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.206     millert   298: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
                    299:         A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
                    300:         overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
                    301:         or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
                    302:         in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.202     millert   303: <li><a href=errata29.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
                    304:        The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
                    305:        in non-interactive mode.  As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
                    306:        this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.200     millert   307: <li><a href=errata29.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
                    308:        A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
                    309:        this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
                    310:        The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
                    311:        currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.198     millert   312: <li><a href=errata29.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
                    313:        An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199     jufi      314:        may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.198     millert   315: <li><a href=errata29.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
                    316:        A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
                    317:        allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
                    318:        processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.191     millert   319: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
                    320:        There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
                    321:        when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
                    322:        allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.189     millert   323: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd2>November 28, 2001:
                    324:        An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
                    325:        creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
                    326:        remote line printer access.</a>
1.190     mpech     327: <li><a href=errata29.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
                    328:        The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
                    329:        to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.185     deraadt   330: <li><a href=errata29.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
1.184     millert   331:        A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
                    332:        attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185     deraadt   333: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
1.183     millert   334:        A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
                    335:        attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.185     deraadt   336: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
1.181     millert   337:        A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
                    338:        attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185     deraadt   339: <li><a href=errata29.html#nfs>July 30, 2001:
1.180     jason     340:        A kernel buffer overflow in the NFS code can be used to execute
                    341:        arbitrary code by users with mount privileges (only root by
1.181     millert   342:        default).</a>
1.185     deraadt   343: <li><a href=errata29.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
1.178     aaron     344:        A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.185     deraadt   345: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshcookie>June 12, 2001:
1.177     markus    346:         sshd(8) allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies"
                    347:         if X11 forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled
                    348:         by default.</a>
1.185     deraadt   349: <li><a href=errata29.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
1.176     millert   350:         Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
                    351:         into the wrong directory.</a>
1.185     deraadt   352: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
1.174     millert   353:        Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
                    354:        leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173     deraadt   355: </ul>
                    356:
                    357: <p>
                    358: <li>
1.152     deraadt   359: <a name=28></a>
                    360:
                    361: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    362: These are the OpenBSD 2.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.154     millert   363: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
1.179     jufi      364: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
1.152     deraadt   365:
                    366: <p>
                    367: <ul>
1.184     millert   368: <li><a href=errata28.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
                    369:        A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
                    370:        attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.183     millert   371: <li><a href=errata28.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
                    372:        A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
                    373:        attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.181     millert   374: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
                    375:        A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
                    376:        attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.178     aaron     377: <li><a href=errata28.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
                    378:        A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.176     millert   379: <li><a href=errata28.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
                    380:         Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
                    381:         into the wrong directory.</a>
1.175     millert   382: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
                    383:        Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
                    384:        leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173     deraadt   385: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipf_frag>Apr 23, 2001:
1.172     ericj     386:        IPF contains a serious bug with its handling of fragment cacheing.</a>
1.173     deraadt   387: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob_limit>Apr 23, 2001:
1.172     ericj     388:        ftpd(8) contains a potential DoS relating to glob(3).</a>
1.173     deraadt   389: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob>Apr 10, 2001:
1.170     ericj     390:        The glob(3) library call contains multiple buffer overflows.</a>
1.173     deraadt   391: <li><a href=errata28.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
1.169     millert   392:        The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.173     deraadt   393: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipsec_ah>Mar 2, 2001:
1.167     ericj     394:        Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun in the kernel.</a>
1.173     deraadt   395: <li><a href=errata28.html#userldt>Mar 2, 2001:
1.168     horacio   396:        The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory.</a>
1.173     deraadt   397: <li><a href=errata28.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
1.171     millert   398:        a non-exploitable buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.173     deraadt   399: <li><a href=errata28.html#named>Jan 29, 2001:
1.163     jason     400:        merge named(8) with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities.</a>
1.173     deraadt   401: <li><a href=errata28.html#rnd>Jan 22, 2001:
1.162     jason     402:        rnd(4) did not use all of its input when written to.</a>
1.173     deraadt   403: <li><a href=errata28.html#xlock>Dec 22, 2000:
1.159     ericj     404:        xlock(1)'s authentication was re-done to authenticate via a named pipe. (patch and new xlock binaries included).</a>
1.173     deraadt   405: <li><a href=errata28.html#procfs>Dec 18, 2000:
1.157     ericj     406:        Procfs contains numerous overflows. Procfs is not used by default in OpenBSD. (patch included).</a>
1.173     deraadt   407: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos2>Dec 10, 2000:
1.156     deraadt   408:        Another problem exists in KerberosIV libraries (patch included).</a>
1.173     deraadt   409: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos>Dec 7, 2000:
1.155     deraadt   410:        A set of problems in KerberosIV exist (patch included).</a>
1.173     deraadt   411: <li><a href=errata28.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
1.154     millert   412:        A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152     deraadt   413: </ul>
                    414:
                    415: <p>
                    416: <li>
1.124     deraadt   417: <a name=27></a>
                    418:
                    419: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    420: These are the OpenBSD 2.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    421: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
                    422: OpenBSD 2.6 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.7.
                    423:
                    424: <p>
                    425: <ul>
1.169     millert   426: <li><a href=errata27.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
                    427:        The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
                    428: <li><a href=errata27.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
                    429:        a buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.154     millert   430: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
                    431:        A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152     deraadt   432: <li><a href=errata27.html#sshforwarding>Nov 10, 2000:
                    433:        Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding.
                    434:        (patch included)</a>
                    435: <li><a href=errata27.html#xtrans>Oct 26, 2000:
1.151     matthieu  436:        X11 libraries have 2 potential overflows in xtrans code.
                    437:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   438: <li><a href=errata27.html#httpd>Oct 18, 2000:
1.150     beck      439:        Apache mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias modules could expose files
                    440:        on the server in certain configurations if used.
                    441:        (patch included)</a>
1.164     deraadt   442: <li><a href=errata27.html#telnetd>Oct 10, 2000:
1.149     millert   443:        The telnet daemon does not strip out the TERMINFO, TERMINFO_DIRS,
                    444:        TERMPATH and TERMCAP environment variables as it should.
                    445:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   446: <li><a href=errata27.html#format_strings>Oct 6, 2000:
1.148     millert   447:        There are printf-style format string bugs in several privileged
                    448:        programs.  (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   449: <li><a href=errata27.html#curses>Oct 6, 2000:
1.147     millert   450:        libcurses honored terminal descriptions in the $HOME/.terminfo
                    451:        directory as well as in the TERMCAP environment variable for
                    452:        setuid and setgid applications.
1.146     deraadt   453:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   454: <li><a href=errata27.html#talkd>Oct 6, 2000:
1.146     deraadt   455:        A format string vulnerability exists in talkd(8).
                    456:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   457: <li><a href=errata27.html#pw_error>Oct 3, 2000:
1.145     aaron     458:        A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error() function of the
                    459:        libutil library, yielding localhost root through chpass(1).
                    460:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   461: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipsec>Sep 18, 2000:
1.144     jason     462:        Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions.
                    463:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   464: <li><a href=errata27.html#xlock>Aug 16, 2000:
1.141     deraadt   465:        A format string vulnerability (localhost root) exists in xlock(1).
                    466:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   467: <li><a href=errata27.html#X11_libs>July 14, 2000:
1.139     deraadt   468:        Various bugs found in X11 libraries have various side effects, almost
                    469:        completely denial of service in OpenBSD.
                    470:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   471: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>July 5, 2000:
1.136     deraadt   472:        Just like pretty much all the other unix ftp daemons
                    473:        on the planet, ftpd had a remote root hole in it.
                    474:        Luckily, ftpd was not enabled by default.
1.137     deraadt   475:        The problem exists if anonymous ftp is enabled.
1.136     deraadt   476:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   477: <li><a href=errata27.html#mopd>July 5, 2000:
1.136     deraadt   478:        Mopd, very rarely used, contained some buffer overflows.
                    479:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   480: <li><a href=errata27.html#libedit>June 28, 2000:
1.135     deraadt   481:        libedit would check for a <b>.editrc</b> file in the current
                    482:        directory.  Not known to be a real security issue, but a patch
                    483:        is available anyways.
                    484:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   485: <li><a href=errata27.html#dhclient>June 24, 2000:
1.134     deraadt   486:        A serious bug in dhclient(8) could allow strings from a
                    487:        malicious dhcp server to be executed in the shell as root.
                    488:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   489: <li><a href=errata27.html#isakmpd>June 9, 2000:
1.133     deraadt   490:        A serious bug in isakmpd(8) policy handling wherein
                    491:        policy verification could be completely bypassed in isakmpd.
                    492:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   493: <li><a href=errata27.html#uselogin>June 6, 2000:
1.132     deraadt   494:        The non-default flag UseLogin in <b>/etc/sshd_config</b> is broken,
                    495:        should not be used, and results in security problems on
                    496:        other operating systems.</a>
1.152     deraadt   497: <li><a href=errata27.html#bridge>May 26, 2000:
1.129     deraadt   498:        The bridge(4) <i>learning</i> flag may be bypassed.
1.128     deraadt   499:        (patch included)</a>
1.152     deraadt   500: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
1.127     kjell     501:        Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
                    502:        in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
                    503:
1.124     deraadt   504: </ul>
                    505:
                    506: <p>
                    507: <li>
1.119     deraadt   508: <a name=26></a>
                    509:
                    510: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    511: These are the OpenBSD 2.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    512: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
                    513: OpenBSD 2.5 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.6.
                    514:
                    515: <p>
                    516: <ul>
1.130     deraadt   517: <li><a href=errata26.html#semconfig>May 26, 2000:
                    518:        SYSV semaphore support contained an undocumented system call
1.131     deraadt   519:        which could wedge semaphore-using processes from exiting. (patch included)</a>
1.127     kjell     520: <li><a href=errata26.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
                    521:        Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
                    522:        in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1.126     deraadt   523: <li><a href=errata26.html#xlockmore>May 25, 2000:
1.125     deraadt   524:        xlockmore has a bug which a localhost attacker can use to gain
                    525:        access to the encrypted root password hash (which is normally
                    526:        encoded using blowfish (see
                    527:        <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3">
                    528:        crypt(3)</a>)
                    529:        (patch included).</a>
1.126     deraadt   530: <li><a href=errata26.html#procfs>Jan 20, 2000:
1.123     deraadt   531:        Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are
                    532:        vulnerable to a very tricky exploit.  procfs is not
                    533:        mounted by default.
                    534:        (patch included).</a>
1.190     mpech     535: <li><a href=errata26.html#sendmail>Dec 4, 1999:
                    536:        Sendmail permitted any user to cause a aliases file wrap,
                    537:        thus exposing the system to a race where the aliases file
                    538:        did not exist.
1.119     deraadt   539:        (patch included).</a>
1.190     mpech     540: <li><a href=errata26.html#poll>Dec 4, 1999:
                    541:        Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.</a>
1.126     deraadt   542: <li><a href=errata26.html#sslUSA>Dec 2, 1999:
1.120     deraadt   543:        A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
                    544:        USA version of libssl, is possibly exploitable in
                    545:        httpd, ssh, or isakmpd, if SSL/RSA features are enabled.
1.124     deraadt   546:        (patch included).<br></a>
                    547:        <strong>Update:</strong> Turns out that this was not exploitable
                    548:        in any of the software included in OpenBSD 2.6.
1.190     mpech     549: <li><a href=errata26.html#ifmedia>Nov 9, 1999:
                    550:        Any user could change interface media configurations, resulting in
                    551:        a localhost denial of service attack.
1.121     deraadt   552:        (patch included).</a>
1.119     deraadt   553: </ul>
                    554:
                    555: <p>
                    556: <li>
                    557:
1.93      deraadt   558: <a name=25></a>
1.106     deraadt   559:
1.110     deraadt   560: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.93      deraadt   561: These are the OpenBSD 2.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    562: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
                    563: OpenBSD 2.4 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.5.
                    564:
1.96      deraadt   565: <p>
1.104     deraadt   566: <ul>
1.117     deraadt   567: <li><a href=errata25.html#cron>Aug 30, 1999:
1.103     deraadt   568:        In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the
                    569:        fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.
                    570:        (patch included).</a>
1.117     deraadt   571: <li><a href=errata25.html#miscfs>Aug 12, 1999: The procfs and fdescfs
1.101     deraadt   572:        filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset
                    573:        in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
                    574:        enabled by default). (patch included).</a>
1.117     deraadt   575: <li><a href=errata25.html#profil>Aug 9, 1999: Stop profiling (see profil(2))
1.100     deraadt   576:        when we execve() a new process. (patch included).</a>
1.117     deraadt   577: <li><a href=errata25.html#ipsec_in_use>Aug 6, 1999: Packets that should have
1.98      deraadt   578:        been handled by IPsec may be transmitted as cleartext.
                    579:        PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
                    580:        (patch included).</a>
1.117     deraadt   581: <li><a href=errata25.html#rc>Aug 5, 1999: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for
1.97      deraadt   582:        motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir
                    583:        (patch included).</a>
1.117     deraadt   584: <li><a href=errata25.html#chflags>Jul 30, 1999: Do not permit regular
1.95      deraadt   585:        users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or block devices
                    586:        which they may currently be the owner of (patch included).</a>
1.117     deraadt   587: <li><a href=errata25.html#nroff>Jul 27, 1999: Cause groff(1) to be invoked
1.95      deraadt   588:        with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1) (patch included).</a>
1.93      deraadt   589: </ul>
                    590:
1.106     deraadt   591: <p>
                    592: <li>
1.75      deraadt   593: <a name=24></a>
1.110     deraadt   594: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.75      deraadt   595: These are the OpenBSD 2.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    596: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
                    597: OpenBSD 2.3 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.4.
                    598:
1.96      deraadt   599: <p>
1.75      deraadt   600: <ul>
1.92      deraadt   601: <li><a href=errata24.html#poll>Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs
1.91      deraadt   602:        to be constrained, to avoid kvm starvation (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   603: <li><a href=errata24.html#tss>Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops
1.91      deraadt   604:        another kernel crash case caused by the <strong>crashme</strong>
                    605:        program (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   606: <li><a href=errata24.html#nlink>Feb 25, 1999: An unbounded increment on the
1.90      deraadt   607:        nlink value in FFS and EXT2FS filesystems can cause a system crash.
1.89      deraadt   608:        (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   609: <li><a href=errata24.html#ping>Feb 23, 1999: Yet another buffer overflow
1.88      deraadt   610:        existed in ping(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   611: <li><a href=errata24.html#ipqrace>Feb 19, 1999: ipintr() had a race in use of
1.87      deraadt   612:        the ipq, which could permit an attacker to cause a crash.
                    613:        (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   614: <li><a href=errata24.html#accept>Feb 17, 1999: A race condition in the
1.86      deraadt   615:        kernel between accept(2) and select(2) could permit an attacker
                    616:        to hang sockets from remote.
                    617:        (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   618: <li><a href=errata24.html#maxqueue>Feb 17, 1999: IP fragment assembly can
1.85      deraadt   619:        bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
                    620:        (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   621: <li><a href=errata24.html#trctrap>Feb 12, 1999: i386 T_TRCTRAP handling and
1.84      deraadt   622:        DDB interacted to possibly cause a crash.
                    623:        (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   624: <li><a href=errata24.html#rst>Feb 11, 1999: TCP/IP RST handling was sloppy.
1.83      deraadt   625:        (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   626: <li><a href=errata24.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81      deraadt   627:        problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   628: <li><a href=errata24.html#termcap>Nov 19, 1998: There is a possibly locally
1.82      deraadt   629:        exploitable problem relating to environment variables in termcap
                    630:        and curses. (patch included).</a>
1.92      deraadt   631: <li><a href=errata24.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78      deraadt   632:        bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.75      deraadt   633: </ul>
                    634:
1.106     deraadt   635: <p>
                    636: <li>
1.58      deraadt   637: <a name=23></a>
1.110     deraadt   638: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.73      deraadt   639: These are the OpenBSD 2.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    640: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
                    641: OpenBSD 2.2 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.3.
1.53      matthieu  642:
1.96      deraadt   643: <p>
1.53      matthieu  644: <ul>
1.81      deraadt   645: <li><a href=errata23.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
                    646:        problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.78      deraadt   647: <li><a href=errata23.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
                    648:        bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.190     mpech     649: <li><a href=errata23.html#resolver>August 31, 1998: A benign looking resolver
                    650:        buffer overflow bug was re-introduced accidentally (patches included).</a>
                    651: <li><a href=errata23.html#chpass>Aug 2, 1998:
                    652:        chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
                    653:        attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.</a>
                    654: <li><a href=errata23.html#inetd>July 15, 1998: Inetd had a file descriptor leak.</a>
1.76      aaron     655: <li><a href=errata23.html#fdalloc>Jul  2, 1998: setuid and setgid processes
1.72      deraadt   656:        should not be executed with fd slots 0, 1, or 2 free.
                    657:        (patch included).</a>
1.76      aaron     658: <li><a href=errata23.html#xlib>June 6, 1998: Further problems with the X
1.71      deraadt   659:        libraries (patches included).</a>
1.76      aaron     660: <li><a href=errata23.html#kill>May 17, 1998: kill(2) of setuid/setgid target
1.66      deraadt   661:        processes too permissive (4th revision patch included).</a>
1.76      aaron     662: <li><a href=errata23.html#immutable>May 11, 1998: mmap() permits partial bypassing
1.60      deraadt   663:        of immutable and append-only file flags. (patch included).</a>
1.190     mpech     664: <li><a href=errata23.html#ipsec>May  5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC packets
                    665:        if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.76      aaron     666: <li><a href=errata23.html#xterm-xaw>May  1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm and Xaw
1.58      deraadt   667:        (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.53      matthieu  668: </ul>
1.9       deraadt   669:
1.106     deraadt   670: <p>
                    671: <li>
1.58      deraadt   672: <a name=22></a>
1.110     deraadt   673: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.45      deraadt   674: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories.  All these problems are solved
1.55      deraadt   675: in <a href=23.html>OpenBSD 2.3</a>.  Some of these problems
1.45      deraadt   676: still exist in other operating systems.  (The supplied patches are for
                    677: OpenBSD 2.2; they may or may not work on OpenBSD 2.1).
1.9       deraadt   678:
1.96      deraadt   679: <p>
1.9       deraadt   680: <ul>
1.72      deraadt   681: <li><a href=errata22.html#ipsec>May  5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC
                    682:        packets if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
                    683: <li><a href=errata22.html#xterm-xaw>May  1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm
                    684:        and Xaw (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
                    685: <li><a href=errata22.html#uucpd>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer overflow in uucpd
                    686:        (patch included).</a>
                    687: <li><a href=errata22.html#rmjob>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer mismanagement in lprm
                    688:        (patch included).</a>
                    689: <li><a href=errata22.html#ping>Mar 31, 1998: Overflow in ping -R (patch included).</a>
                    690: <li><a href=errata22.html#named>Mar 30, 1998: Overflow in named fake-iquery
1.59      deraadt   691:        (patch included).</a>
1.72      deraadt   692: <li><a href=errata22.html#mountd>Mar  2, 1998: Accidental NFS filesystem
                    693:        export (patch included).</a>
1.112     philen    694: <li><a href="advisories/mmap.txt">Feb 26, 1998: Read-write mmap() flaw.</a>
1.72      deraadt   695:        Revision 3 of the patch is available <a href=errata22.html#mmap>here</a>
1.112     philen    696: <li><a href="advisories/sourceroute.txt">Feb 19, 1998: Sourcerouted Packet
1.59      deraadt   697:        Acceptance.</a>
1.50      deraadt   698:        A patch is available <a href=errata22.html#sourceroute>here</a>.
1.122     rohee     699: <li><a href=errata22.html#ruserok>Feb 13, 1998: Setuid coredump &amp; Ruserok()
1.72      deraadt   700:        flaw (patch included).</a>
                    701: <li><a href=errata22.html#ldso>Feb  9, 1998: MIPS ld.so flaw (patch included).</a>
1.1       deraadt   702: </ul>
                    703:
1.106     deraadt   704: <p>
                    705: <li>
1.58      deraadt   706: <a name=21></a>
1.110     deraadt   707: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.52      deraadt   708: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories.  All these problems are solved
                    709: in <a href=22.html>OpenBSD 2.2</a>.  Some of these problems still
                    710: exist in other operating systems.  (If you are running OpenBSD 2.1, we
                    711: would strongly recommend an upgrade to the newest release, as this
                    712: patch list only attempts at fixing the most important security
                    713: problems.  In particular, OpenBSD 2.2 fixes numerous localhost
                    714: security problems.  Many of those problems were solved in ways which
                    715: make it hard for us to provide patches).
                    716:
1.96      deraadt   717: <p>
1.52      deraadt   718: <ul>
1.112     philen    719: <li><a href="advisories/signals.txt">Sep 15, 1997: Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
                    720: <li><a href="advisories/rfork.txt">Aug  2, 1997: Rfork() system call flaw
1.59      deraadt   721:        (patch included)</a>
1.112     philen    722: <li><a href="advisories/procfs.txt">Jun 24, 1997: Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
1.52      deraadt   723: </ul>
1.51      deraadt   724:
1.106     deraadt   725: <p>
                    726: <li>
                    727: <a name=20></a>
1.110     deraadt   728: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.99      deraadt   729: These are the OpenBSD 2.0 advisories.  All these problems are solved
                    730: in <a href=21.html>OpenBSD 2.1</a>.  Some of these problems still
                    731: exist in other operating systems.  (If you are running OpenBSD 2.0, we
                    732: commend you for being there back in the old days!, but you're really
                    733: missing out if you don't install a new version!)
                    734:
                    735: <p>
                    736: <ul>
1.112     philen    737: <li><a href="advisories/res_random.txt">April 22, 1997: Predictable IDs in the
1.99      deraadt   738:        resolver (patch included)</a>
                    739: <li>Many others... if people can hunt them down, please let me know
                    740:        and we'll put them up here.
                    741: </ul>
                    742:
1.106     deraadt   743: </dl>
1.51      deraadt   744: <p>
1.106     deraadt   745:
                    746: <a name=watching></a>
1.110     deraadt   747: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Watching our Changes</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   748:
1.21      deraadt   749: Since we take a proactive stance with security, we are continually
                    750: finding and fixing new security problems.  Not all of these problems
1.80      espie     751: get widely reported because (as stated earlier) many of them are not
1.45      deraadt   752: confirmed to be exploitable; many simple bugs we fix do turn out to
                    753: have security consequences we could not predict.  We do not have the
                    754: time resources to make these changes available in the above format.<p>
1.21      deraadt   755:
                    756: Thus there are usually minor security fixes in the current source code
                    757: beyond the previous major OpenBSD release.  We make a limited
1.45      deraadt   758: guarantee that these problems are of minimal impact and unproven
1.44      ian       759: exploitability.  If we discover that a problem definitely matters for
1.45      deraadt   760: security, patches will show up here <strong>VERY</strong> quickly.<p>
1.21      deraadt   761:
1.45      deraadt   762: People who are really concerned with security can do a number of
                    763: things:<p>
1.21      deraadt   764:
                    765: <ul>
                    766: <li>If you understand security issues, watch our
1.27      deraadt   767:        <a href=mail.html>source-changes mailing list</a> and keep an
1.23      deraadt   768:        eye out for things which appear security related.  Since
1.21      deraadt   769:        exploitability is not proven for many of the fixes we make,
                    770:        do not expect the relevant commit message to say "SECURITY FIX!".
                    771:        If a problem is proven and serious, a patch will be available
                    772:        here very shortly after.
1.161     horacio   773: <li>In addition to source changes, you can watch our <a href="mail.html">
1.160     ericj     774:        security-announce mailing list</a> which will notify you for every
1.186     ian       775:        security related item that the OpenBSD team deems as a possible threat,
1.160     ericj     776:        and instruct you on how to patch the problem.
1.21      deraadt   777: <li>Track our current source code tree, and teach yourself how to do a
1.29      deraadt   778:        complete system build from time to time (read /usr/src/Makefile
                    779:        carefully).  Users can make the assumption that the current
                    780:        source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.
1.45      deraadt   781:        However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;
                    782:        it is nearly 300MB of source code, and problems do occur as we
                    783:        transition between major releases.
1.115     ericj     784: <li>Install a binary snapshot for your
1.80      espie     785:        architecture, which are made available fairly often.  For
1.29      deraadt   786:        instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.
1.21      deraadt   787: </ul>
                    788:
1.9       deraadt   789: <p>
1.153     jufi      790: <a name=reporting></a>
1.110     deraadt   791: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Reporting problems</font></h3><p>
1.3       deraadt   792:
1.5       deraadt   793: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.6       deraadt   794: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
1.7       deraadt   795: <br>
1.5       deraadt   796: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
1.112     philen    797: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href="advisories/pgpkey.txt">pgp key</a>.
1.5       deraadt   798:
1.107     deraadt   799: <p>
                    800: <a name=papers></a>
1.110     deraadt   801: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.107     deraadt   802:
                    803: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about security
                    804: related changes they have done in OpenBSD.  The postscript versions of these
1.108     deraadt   805: documents are available as follows.<p>
1.107     deraadt   806:
                    807: <ul>
1.113     deraadt   808: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.118     deraadt   809:     <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.153     jufi      810:     by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.113     deraadt   811:     <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
1.107     deraadt   812:     <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
                    813:     <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113     deraadt   814: <p>
                    815: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.118     deraadt   816:     <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113     deraadt   817:     by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
                    818:     <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
                    819:     <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
                    820:     <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
                    821:     <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.107     deraadt   822:     <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
                    823:     <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113     deraadt   824: <p>
                    825: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.118     deraadt   826:     <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113     deraadt   827:     by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
                    828:     <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.109     deraadt   829:     <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
                    830:     <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113     deraadt   831: <p>
1.118     deraadt   832: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
                    833:     <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
                    834:     by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
                    835:     <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
                    836:     <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
                    837: <p>
1.153     jufi      838: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.142     deraadt   839:     <a href=events.html#sec2000>Usenix Security 2000</a>,
                    840:     <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.143     provos    841:     <a href=papers/swapencrypt.ps>paper</a> and
                    842:     <a href=papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.142     deraadt   843: <p>
1.107     deraadt   844: </ul>
                    845:
1.106     deraadt   846: </dl>
                    847:
1.2       deraadt   848: <hr>
1.68      pauls     849: <a href=index.html><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.24      deraadt   850: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
                    851: <br>
1.211   ! miod      852: <small>$OpenBSD: security.html,v 1.210 2002/06/18 01:44:06 jsyn Exp $</small>
1.1       deraadt   853:
1.24      deraadt   854: </body>
                    855: </html>