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1.110 deraadt 16: <h2><font color=#e00000>Security</font><hr></h2>
1.1 deraadt 17:
1.114 philen 18: <table width="100%">
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20: <td colspan="2">
21: <strong>Index</strong>
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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->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>
1.220 miod 197: <li><a href=errata.html#scarg>August 11, 2002:
1.221 ! provos 198: An insufficient boundary check in the select system call
1.220 miod 199: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
200: in kernel context.</a>
1.218 miod 201: <li><a href=errata.html#ssl>July 30, 2002:
202: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
203: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
204: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
205: exploitable.</a>
206: <li><a href=errata.html#xdr>July 29, 2002:
207: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
208: possible remote crash.</a>
209: <li><a href=errata.html#pppd>July 29, 2002:
210: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
211: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
212: <li><a href=errata.html#isakmpd>July 5, 2002:
213: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
214: crash.</a>
1.215 miod 215: <li><a href=errata.html#ktrace>June 27, 2002:
216: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.213 miod 217: <li><a href=errata.html#modssl>June 26, 2002:
218: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 219: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.212 millert 220: <li><a href=errata.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
221: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.213 miod 222: <li><a href=errata.html#sshd>June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 223: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 224: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
225: privilege escalation.</a>
1.211 miod 226: <li><a href=errata.html#httpd>June 19, 2002:
227: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
228: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.209 markus 229: <li><a href=errata.html#sshbsdauth>May 22, 2002:
230: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups
231: in the password database, it is possible that sshd(8) does
232: ACL checks for the requested user name but uses the password
233: database entry of a different user for authentication. This
234: means that denied users might authenticate successfully
235: while permitted users could be locked out.</a>
1.208 millert 236: <li><a href=errata.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
237: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
238: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.205 millert 239: <li><a href=errata.html#sudo>April 25, 2002:
240: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
241: <li><a href=errata.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
242: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
243: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
244: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
245: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 246: </ul>
247:
248: <p>
249:
250: <li>
1.187 deraadt 251: <a name=30></a>
252:
253: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
254: These are the OpenBSD 3.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
255: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
256: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
257:
258: <p>
259: <ul>
1.220 miod 260: <li><a href=errata30.html#scarg>August 11, 2002:
261: An insufficient boundary check in the select and poll system calls
262: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
263: in kernel context.</a>
1.218 miod 264: <li><a href=errata30.html#ssl>July 30, 2002:
265: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
266: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
267: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
268: exploitable.</a>
269: <li><a href=errata30.html#xdr>July 29, 2002:
270: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
271: possible remote crash.</a>
272: <li><a href=errata30.html#pppd>July 29, 2002:
273: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
274: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.219 miod 275: <li><a href=errata30.html#isakmpd2>July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 276: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
277: crash.</a>
1.215 miod 278: <li><a href=errata30.html#ktrace>June 27, 2002:
279: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.212 millert 280: <li><a href=errata30.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
281: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.213 miod 282: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshdauth>June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 283: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 284: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
285: privilege escalation.</a>
286: <li><a href=errata30.html#modssl>June 24, 2002:
287: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 288: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.213 miod 289: <li><a href=errata30.html#httpd>June 19, 2002:
290: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
291: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.208 millert 292: <li><a href=errata30.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
293: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
294: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.205 millert 295: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
296: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
297: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
298: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
299: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
300: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
301: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 302: <li><a href=errata30.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
1.202 millert 303: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
304: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
305: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.203 deraadt 306: <li><a href=errata30.html#approval>March 19, 2002:
1.201 millert 307: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in
308: the password database, it is possible for the rexecd(8) and rshd(8)
309: daemons to execute a shell from a password database entry for a
310: different user. Similarly, atrun(8) may change to the wrong
311: home directory when running jobs.</a>
1.203 deraadt 312: <li><a href=errata30.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
1.200 millert 313: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
314: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
315: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
316: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.203 deraadt 317: <li><a href=errata30.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
1.198 millert 318: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 319: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.203 deraadt 320: <li><a href=errata30.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
1.192 jason 321: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
322: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
323: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.203 deraadt 324: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
1.191 millert 325: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
326: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
327: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.203 deraadt 328: <li><a href=errata30.html#lpd>November 28, 2001:
1.189 millert 329: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
330: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
331: remote line printer access.</a>
1.203 deraadt 332: <li><a href=errata30.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
1.188 millert 333: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
334: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.203 deraadt 335: <li><a href=errata30.html#pf>November 13, 2001:
1.190 mpech 336: pf(4) was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets,
337: resulting in a crash.</a>
1.203 deraadt 338: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshd>November 12, 2001:
1.190 mpech 339: A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
340: if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.</a>
1.187 deraadt 341: </ul>
1.217 miod 342: </dl>
343: <p>
344: OpenBSD 2.9 and earlier releases are not supported anymore. The following
345: paragraphs only list advisories issued while they were maintained; these
346: releases are likely to be affected by the advisories for more recent releases.
347: <br>
1.187 deraadt 348:
349: <p>
1.217 miod 350: <dl>
1.187 deraadt 351: <li>
1.173 deraadt 352: <a name=29></a>
353:
354: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
355: These are the OpenBSD 2.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
356: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
1.179 jufi 357: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
1.173 deraadt 358:
359: <p>
360: <ul>
1.212 millert 361: <li><a href=errata29.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
362: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.208 millert 363: <li><a href=errata29.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
364: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
365: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.207 millert 366: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
367: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.206 millert 368: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
369: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
370: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
371: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
372: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.202 millert 373: <li><a href=errata29.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
374: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
375: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
376: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.200 millert 377: <li><a href=errata29.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
378: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
379: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
380: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
381: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.198 millert 382: <li><a href=errata29.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
383: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 384: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.198 millert 385: <li><a href=errata29.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
386: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
387: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
388: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.191 millert 389: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
390: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
391: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
392: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.189 millert 393: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd2>November 28, 2001:
394: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
395: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
396: remote line printer access.</a>
1.190 mpech 397: <li><a href=errata29.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
398: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
399: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.185 deraadt 400: <li><a href=errata29.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
1.184 millert 401: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
402: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185 deraadt 403: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
1.183 millert 404: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
405: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.185 deraadt 406: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
1.181 millert 407: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
408: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185 deraadt 409: <li><a href=errata29.html#nfs>July 30, 2001:
1.180 jason 410: A kernel buffer overflow in the NFS code can be used to execute
411: arbitrary code by users with mount privileges (only root by
1.181 millert 412: default).</a>
1.185 deraadt 413: <li><a href=errata29.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
1.178 aaron 414: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.185 deraadt 415: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshcookie>June 12, 2001:
1.177 markus 416: sshd(8) allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies"
417: if X11 forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled
418: by default.</a>
1.185 deraadt 419: <li><a href=errata29.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
1.176 millert 420: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
421: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.185 deraadt 422: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
1.174 millert 423: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
424: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 425: </ul>
426:
427: <p>
428: <li>
1.152 deraadt 429: <a name=28></a>
430:
431: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
432: These are the OpenBSD 2.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.154 millert 433: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
1.179 jufi 434: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
1.152 deraadt 435:
436: <p>
437: <ul>
1.184 millert 438: <li><a href=errata28.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
439: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
440: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.183 millert 441: <li><a href=errata28.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
442: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
443: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.181 millert 444: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
445: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
446: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.178 aaron 447: <li><a href=errata28.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
448: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.176 millert 449: <li><a href=errata28.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
450: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
451: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.175 millert 452: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
453: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
454: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 455: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipf_frag>Apr 23, 2001:
1.172 ericj 456: IPF contains a serious bug with its handling of fragment cacheing.</a>
1.173 deraadt 457: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob_limit>Apr 23, 2001:
1.172 ericj 458: ftpd(8) contains a potential DoS relating to glob(3).</a>
1.173 deraadt 459: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob>Apr 10, 2001:
1.170 ericj 460: The glob(3) library call contains multiple buffer overflows.</a>
1.173 deraadt 461: <li><a href=errata28.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
1.169 millert 462: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.173 deraadt 463: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipsec_ah>Mar 2, 2001:
1.167 ericj 464: Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun in the kernel.</a>
1.173 deraadt 465: <li><a href=errata28.html#userldt>Mar 2, 2001:
1.168 horacio 466: The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory.</a>
1.173 deraadt 467: <li><a href=errata28.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
1.171 millert 468: a non-exploitable buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.173 deraadt 469: <li><a href=errata28.html#named>Jan 29, 2001:
1.163 jason 470: merge named(8) with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities.</a>
1.173 deraadt 471: <li><a href=errata28.html#rnd>Jan 22, 2001:
1.162 jason 472: rnd(4) did not use all of its input when written to.</a>
1.173 deraadt 473: <li><a href=errata28.html#xlock>Dec 22, 2000:
1.159 ericj 474: xlock(1)'s authentication was re-done to authenticate via a named pipe. (patch and new xlock binaries included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 475: <li><a href=errata28.html#procfs>Dec 18, 2000:
1.157 ericj 476: Procfs contains numerous overflows. Procfs is not used by default in OpenBSD. (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 477: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos2>Dec 10, 2000:
1.156 deraadt 478: Another problem exists in KerberosIV libraries (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 479: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos>Dec 7, 2000:
1.155 deraadt 480: A set of problems in KerberosIV exist (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 481: <li><a href=errata28.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
1.154 millert 482: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 483: </ul>
484:
485: <p>
486: <li>
1.124 deraadt 487: <a name=27></a>
488:
489: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
490: These are the OpenBSD 2.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
491: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
492: OpenBSD 2.6 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.7.
493:
494: <p>
495: <ul>
1.169 millert 496: <li><a href=errata27.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
497: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
498: <li><a href=errata27.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
499: a buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.154 millert 500: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
501: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 502: <li><a href=errata27.html#sshforwarding>Nov 10, 2000:
503: Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding.
504: (patch included)</a>
505: <li><a href=errata27.html#xtrans>Oct 26, 2000:
1.151 matthieu 506: X11 libraries have 2 potential overflows in xtrans code.
507: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 508: <li><a href=errata27.html#httpd>Oct 18, 2000:
1.150 beck 509: Apache mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias modules could expose files
510: on the server in certain configurations if used.
511: (patch included)</a>
1.164 deraadt 512: <li><a href=errata27.html#telnetd>Oct 10, 2000:
1.149 millert 513: The telnet daemon does not strip out the TERMINFO, TERMINFO_DIRS,
514: TERMPATH and TERMCAP environment variables as it should.
515: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 516: <li><a href=errata27.html#format_strings>Oct 6, 2000:
1.148 millert 517: There are printf-style format string bugs in several privileged
518: programs. (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 519: <li><a href=errata27.html#curses>Oct 6, 2000:
1.147 millert 520: libcurses honored terminal descriptions in the $HOME/.terminfo
521: directory as well as in the TERMCAP environment variable for
522: setuid and setgid applications.
1.146 deraadt 523: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 524: <li><a href=errata27.html#talkd>Oct 6, 2000:
1.146 deraadt 525: A format string vulnerability exists in talkd(8).
526: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 527: <li><a href=errata27.html#pw_error>Oct 3, 2000:
1.145 aaron 528: A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error() function of the
529: libutil library, yielding localhost root through chpass(1).
530: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 531: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipsec>Sep 18, 2000:
1.144 jason 532: Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions.
533: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 534: <li><a href=errata27.html#xlock>Aug 16, 2000:
1.141 deraadt 535: A format string vulnerability (localhost root) exists in xlock(1).
536: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 537: <li><a href=errata27.html#X11_libs>July 14, 2000:
1.139 deraadt 538: Various bugs found in X11 libraries have various side effects, almost
539: completely denial of service in OpenBSD.
540: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 541: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 542: Just like pretty much all the other unix ftp daemons
543: on the planet, ftpd had a remote root hole in it.
544: Luckily, ftpd was not enabled by default.
1.137 deraadt 545: The problem exists if anonymous ftp is enabled.
1.136 deraadt 546: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 547: <li><a href=errata27.html#mopd>July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 548: Mopd, very rarely used, contained some buffer overflows.
549: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 550: <li><a href=errata27.html#libedit>June 28, 2000:
1.135 deraadt 551: libedit would check for a <b>.editrc</b> file in the current
552: directory. Not known to be a real security issue, but a patch
553: is available anyways.
554: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 555: <li><a href=errata27.html#dhclient>June 24, 2000:
1.134 deraadt 556: A serious bug in dhclient(8) could allow strings from a
557: malicious dhcp server to be executed in the shell as root.
558: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 559: <li><a href=errata27.html#isakmpd>June 9, 2000:
1.133 deraadt 560: A serious bug in isakmpd(8) policy handling wherein
561: policy verification could be completely bypassed in isakmpd.
562: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 563: <li><a href=errata27.html#uselogin>June 6, 2000:
1.132 deraadt 564: The non-default flag UseLogin in <b>/etc/sshd_config</b> is broken,
565: should not be used, and results in security problems on
566: other operating systems.</a>
1.152 deraadt 567: <li><a href=errata27.html#bridge>May 26, 2000:
1.129 deraadt 568: The bridge(4) <i>learning</i> flag may be bypassed.
1.128 deraadt 569: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 570: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
1.127 kjell 571: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
572: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
573:
1.124 deraadt 574: </ul>
575:
576: <p>
577: <li>
1.119 deraadt 578: <a name=26></a>
579:
580: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
581: These are the OpenBSD 2.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
582: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
583: OpenBSD 2.5 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.6.
584:
585: <p>
586: <ul>
1.130 deraadt 587: <li><a href=errata26.html#semconfig>May 26, 2000:
588: SYSV semaphore support contained an undocumented system call
1.131 deraadt 589: which could wedge semaphore-using processes from exiting. (patch included)</a>
1.127 kjell 590: <li><a href=errata26.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
591: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
592: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1.126 deraadt 593: <li><a href=errata26.html#xlockmore>May 25, 2000:
1.125 deraadt 594: xlockmore has a bug which a localhost attacker can use to gain
595: access to the encrypted root password hash (which is normally
596: encoded using blowfish (see
597: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3">
598: crypt(3)</a>)
599: (patch included).</a>
1.126 deraadt 600: <li><a href=errata26.html#procfs>Jan 20, 2000:
1.123 deraadt 601: Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are
602: vulnerable to a very tricky exploit. procfs is not
603: mounted by default.
604: (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 605: <li><a href=errata26.html#sendmail>Dec 4, 1999:
606: Sendmail permitted any user to cause a aliases file wrap,
607: thus exposing the system to a race where the aliases file
608: did not exist.
1.119 deraadt 609: (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 610: <li><a href=errata26.html#poll>Dec 4, 1999:
611: Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.</a>
1.126 deraadt 612: <li><a href=errata26.html#sslUSA>Dec 2, 1999:
1.120 deraadt 613: A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
614: USA version of libssl, is possibly exploitable in
615: httpd, ssh, or isakmpd, if SSL/RSA features are enabled.
1.124 deraadt 616: (patch included).<br></a>
617: <strong>Update:</strong> Turns out that this was not exploitable
618: in any of the software included in OpenBSD 2.6.
1.190 mpech 619: <li><a href=errata26.html#ifmedia>Nov 9, 1999:
620: Any user could change interface media configurations, resulting in
621: a localhost denial of service attack.
1.121 deraadt 622: (patch included).</a>
1.119 deraadt 623: </ul>
624:
625: <p>
626: <li>
627:
1.93 deraadt 628: <a name=25></a>
1.106 deraadt 629:
1.110 deraadt 630: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 631: These are the OpenBSD 2.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
632: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
633: OpenBSD 2.4 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.5.
634:
1.96 deraadt 635: <p>
1.104 deraadt 636: <ul>
1.117 deraadt 637: <li><a href=errata25.html#cron>Aug 30, 1999:
1.103 deraadt 638: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the
639: fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.
640: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 641: <li><a href=errata25.html#miscfs>Aug 12, 1999: The procfs and fdescfs
1.101 deraadt 642: filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset
643: in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
644: enabled by default). (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 645: <li><a href=errata25.html#profil>Aug 9, 1999: Stop profiling (see profil(2))
1.100 deraadt 646: when we execve() a new process. (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 647: <li><a href=errata25.html#ipsec_in_use>Aug 6, 1999: Packets that should have
1.98 deraadt 648: been handled by IPsec may be transmitted as cleartext.
649: PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
650: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 651: <li><a href=errata25.html#rc>Aug 5, 1999: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for
1.97 deraadt 652: motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir
653: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 654: <li><a href=errata25.html#chflags>Jul 30, 1999: Do not permit regular
1.95 deraadt 655: users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or block devices
656: which they may currently be the owner of (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 657: <li><a href=errata25.html#nroff>Jul 27, 1999: Cause groff(1) to be invoked
1.95 deraadt 658: with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1) (patch included).</a>
1.93 deraadt 659: </ul>
660:
1.106 deraadt 661: <p>
662: <li>
1.75 deraadt 663: <a name=24></a>
1.110 deraadt 664: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.75 deraadt 665: These are the OpenBSD 2.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
666: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
667: OpenBSD 2.3 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.4.
668:
1.96 deraadt 669: <p>
1.75 deraadt 670: <ul>
1.92 deraadt 671: <li><a href=errata24.html#poll>Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs
1.91 deraadt 672: to be constrained, to avoid kvm starvation (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 673: <li><a href=errata24.html#tss>Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops
1.91 deraadt 674: another kernel crash case caused by the <strong>crashme</strong>
675: program (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 676: <li><a href=errata24.html#nlink>Feb 25, 1999: An unbounded increment on the
1.90 deraadt 677: nlink value in FFS and EXT2FS filesystems can cause a system crash.
1.89 deraadt 678: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 679: <li><a href=errata24.html#ping>Feb 23, 1999: Yet another buffer overflow
1.88 deraadt 680: existed in ping(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 681: <li><a href=errata24.html#ipqrace>Feb 19, 1999: ipintr() had a race in use of
1.87 deraadt 682: the ipq, which could permit an attacker to cause a crash.
683: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 684: <li><a href=errata24.html#accept>Feb 17, 1999: A race condition in the
1.86 deraadt 685: kernel between accept(2) and select(2) could permit an attacker
686: to hang sockets from remote.
687: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 688: <li><a href=errata24.html#maxqueue>Feb 17, 1999: IP fragment assembly can
1.85 deraadt 689: bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
690: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 691: <li><a href=errata24.html#trctrap>Feb 12, 1999: i386 T_TRCTRAP handling and
1.84 deraadt 692: DDB interacted to possibly cause a crash.
693: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 694: <li><a href=errata24.html#rst>Feb 11, 1999: TCP/IP RST handling was sloppy.
1.83 deraadt 695: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 696: <li><a href=errata24.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81 deraadt 697: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 698: <li><a href=errata24.html#termcap>Nov 19, 1998: There is a possibly locally
1.82 deraadt 699: exploitable problem relating to environment variables in termcap
700: and curses. (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 701: <li><a href=errata24.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78 deraadt 702: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.75 deraadt 703: </ul>
704:
1.106 deraadt 705: <p>
706: <li>
1.58 deraadt 707: <a name=23></a>
1.110 deraadt 708: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.73 deraadt 709: These are the OpenBSD 2.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
710: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
711: OpenBSD 2.2 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.3.
1.53 matthieu 712:
1.96 deraadt 713: <p>
1.53 matthieu 714: <ul>
1.81 deraadt 715: <li><a href=errata23.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
716: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.78 deraadt 717: <li><a href=errata23.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
718: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 719: <li><a href=errata23.html#resolver>August 31, 1998: A benign looking resolver
720: buffer overflow bug was re-introduced accidentally (patches included).</a>
721: <li><a href=errata23.html#chpass>Aug 2, 1998:
722: chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
723: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.</a>
724: <li><a href=errata23.html#inetd>July 15, 1998: Inetd had a file descriptor leak.</a>
1.76 aaron 725: <li><a href=errata23.html#fdalloc>Jul 2, 1998: setuid and setgid processes
1.72 deraadt 726: should not be executed with fd slots 0, 1, or 2 free.
727: (patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 728: <li><a href=errata23.html#xlib>June 6, 1998: Further problems with the X
1.71 deraadt 729: libraries (patches included).</a>
1.76 aaron 730: <li><a href=errata23.html#kill>May 17, 1998: kill(2) of setuid/setgid target
1.66 deraadt 731: processes too permissive (4th revision patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 732: <li><a href=errata23.html#immutable>May 11, 1998: mmap() permits partial bypassing
1.60 deraadt 733: of immutable and append-only file flags. (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 734: <li><a href=errata23.html#ipsec>May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC packets
735: if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 736: <li><a href=errata23.html#xterm-xaw>May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm and Xaw
1.58 deraadt 737: (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.53 matthieu 738: </ul>
1.9 deraadt 739:
1.106 deraadt 740: <p>
741: <li>
1.58 deraadt 742: <a name=22></a>
1.110 deraadt 743: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.45 deraadt 744: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.55 deraadt 745: in <a href=23.html>OpenBSD 2.3</a>. Some of these problems
1.45 deraadt 746: still exist in other operating systems. (The supplied patches are for
747: OpenBSD 2.2; they may or may not work on OpenBSD 2.1).
1.9 deraadt 748:
1.96 deraadt 749: <p>
1.9 deraadt 750: <ul>
1.72 deraadt 751: <li><a href=errata22.html#ipsec>May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC
752: packets if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
753: <li><a href=errata22.html#xterm-xaw>May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm
754: and Xaw (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
755: <li><a href=errata22.html#uucpd>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer overflow in uucpd
756: (patch included).</a>
757: <li><a href=errata22.html#rmjob>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer mismanagement in lprm
758: (patch included).</a>
759: <li><a href=errata22.html#ping>Mar 31, 1998: Overflow in ping -R (patch included).</a>
760: <li><a href=errata22.html#named>Mar 30, 1998: Overflow in named fake-iquery
1.59 deraadt 761: (patch included).</a>
1.72 deraadt 762: <li><a href=errata22.html#mountd>Mar 2, 1998: Accidental NFS filesystem
763: export (patch included).</a>
1.112 philen 764: <li><a href="advisories/mmap.txt">Feb 26, 1998: Read-write mmap() flaw.</a>
1.72 deraadt 765: Revision 3 of the patch is available <a href=errata22.html#mmap>here</a>
1.112 philen 766: <li><a href="advisories/sourceroute.txt">Feb 19, 1998: Sourcerouted Packet
1.59 deraadt 767: Acceptance.</a>
1.50 deraadt 768: A patch is available <a href=errata22.html#sourceroute>here</a>.
1.122 rohee 769: <li><a href=errata22.html#ruserok>Feb 13, 1998: Setuid coredump & Ruserok()
1.72 deraadt 770: flaw (patch included).</a>
771: <li><a href=errata22.html#ldso>Feb 9, 1998: MIPS ld.so flaw (patch included).</a>
1.1 deraadt 772: </ul>
773:
1.106 deraadt 774: <p>
775: <li>
1.58 deraadt 776: <a name=21></a>
1.110 deraadt 777: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.52 deraadt 778: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories. All these problems are solved
779: in <a href=22.html>OpenBSD 2.2</a>. Some of these problems still
780: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.1, we
781: would strongly recommend an upgrade to the newest release, as this
782: patch list only attempts at fixing the most important security
783: problems. In particular, OpenBSD 2.2 fixes numerous localhost
784: security problems. Many of those problems were solved in ways which
785: make it hard for us to provide patches).
786:
1.96 deraadt 787: <p>
1.52 deraadt 788: <ul>
1.112 philen 789: <li><a href="advisories/signals.txt">Sep 15, 1997: Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
790: <li><a href="advisories/rfork.txt">Aug 2, 1997: Rfork() system call flaw
1.59 deraadt 791: (patch included)</a>
1.112 philen 792: <li><a href="advisories/procfs.txt">Jun 24, 1997: Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
1.52 deraadt 793: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 794:
1.106 deraadt 795: <p>
796: <li>
797: <a name=20></a>
1.110 deraadt 798: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.99 deraadt 799: These are the OpenBSD 2.0 advisories. All these problems are solved
800: in <a href=21.html>OpenBSD 2.1</a>. Some of these problems still
801: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.0, we
802: commend you for being there back in the old days!, but you're really
803: missing out if you don't install a new version!)
804:
805: <p>
806: <ul>
1.112 philen 807: <li><a href="advisories/res_random.txt">April 22, 1997: Predictable IDs in the
1.99 deraadt 808: resolver (patch included)</a>
809: <li>Many others... if people can hunt them down, please let me know
810: and we'll put them up here.
811: </ul>
812:
1.106 deraadt 813: </dl>
1.51 deraadt 814: <p>
1.106 deraadt 815:
816: <a name=watching></a>
1.110 deraadt 817: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Watching our Changes</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 818:
1.21 deraadt 819: Since we take a proactive stance with security, we are continually
820: finding and fixing new security problems. Not all of these problems
1.80 espie 821: get widely reported because (as stated earlier) many of them are not
1.45 deraadt 822: confirmed to be exploitable; many simple bugs we fix do turn out to
823: have security consequences we could not predict. We do not have the
824: time resources to make these changes available in the above format.<p>
1.21 deraadt 825:
826: Thus there are usually minor security fixes in the current source code
827: beyond the previous major OpenBSD release. We make a limited
1.45 deraadt 828: guarantee that these problems are of minimal impact and unproven
1.44 ian 829: exploitability. If we discover that a problem definitely matters for
1.45 deraadt 830: security, patches will show up here <strong>VERY</strong> quickly.<p>
1.21 deraadt 831:
1.45 deraadt 832: People who are really concerned with security can do a number of
833: things:<p>
1.21 deraadt 834:
835: <ul>
836: <li>If you understand security issues, watch our
1.27 deraadt 837: <a href=mail.html>source-changes mailing list</a> and keep an
1.23 deraadt 838: eye out for things which appear security related. Since
1.21 deraadt 839: exploitability is not proven for many of the fixes we make,
840: do not expect the relevant commit message to say "SECURITY FIX!".
841: If a problem is proven and serious, a patch will be available
842: here very shortly after.
1.161 horacio 843: <li>In addition to source changes, you can watch our <a href="mail.html">
1.160 ericj 844: security-announce mailing list</a> which will notify you for every
1.186 ian 845: security related item that the OpenBSD team deems as a possible threat,
1.160 ericj 846: and instruct you on how to patch the problem.
1.21 deraadt 847: <li>Track our current source code tree, and teach yourself how to do a
1.29 deraadt 848: complete system build from time to time (read /usr/src/Makefile
849: carefully). Users can make the assumption that the current
850: source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.
1.45 deraadt 851: However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;
852: it is nearly 300MB of source code, and problems do occur as we
853: transition between major releases.
1.115 ericj 854: <li>Install a binary snapshot for your
1.80 espie 855: architecture, which are made available fairly often. For
1.29 deraadt 856: instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.
1.21 deraadt 857: </ul>
858:
1.9 deraadt 859: <p>
1.153 jufi 860: <a name=reporting></a>
1.110 deraadt 861: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Reporting problems</font></h3><p>
1.3 deraadt 862:
1.5 deraadt 863: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.6 deraadt 864: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
1.7 deraadt 865: <br>
1.5 deraadt 866: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
1.112 philen 867: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href="advisories/pgpkey.txt">pgp key</a>.
1.5 deraadt 868:
1.107 deraadt 869: <p>
870: <a name=papers></a>
1.110 deraadt 871: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.107 deraadt 872:
873: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about security
874: related changes they have done in OpenBSD. The postscript versions of these
1.108 deraadt 875: documents are available as follows.<p>
1.107 deraadt 876:
877: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 878: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.118 deraadt 879: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.153 jufi 880: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.113 deraadt 881: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
1.107 deraadt 882: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
883: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 884: <p>
885: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.118 deraadt 886: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113 deraadt 887: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
888: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
889: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
890: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
891: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.107 deraadt 892: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
893: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 894: <p>
895: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.118 deraadt 896: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113 deraadt 897: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
898: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.109 deraadt 899: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
900: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 901: <p>
1.118 deraadt 902: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
903: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
904: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
905: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
906: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
907: <p>
1.153 jufi 908: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.142 deraadt 909: <a href=events.html#sec2000>Usenix Security 2000</a>,
910: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.143 provos 911: <a href=papers/swapencrypt.ps>paper</a> and
912: <a href=papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.142 deraadt 913: <p>
1.107 deraadt 914: </ul>
915:
1.106 deraadt 916: </dl>
917:
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