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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%">
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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">
1.225 deraadt 38: For security advisories for specific releases, click below:<br>
39: <a href="#20">2.0</a>,
40: <a href="#21">2.1</a>,
41: <a href="#22">2.2</a>,
42: <a href="#23">2.3</a>,
43: <a href="#24">2.4</a>,
44: <a href="#25">2.5</a>,
45: <a href="#26">2.6</a>,
46: <a href="#27">2.7</a>,
47: <a href="#28">2.8</a>,
48: <a href="#29">2.9</a>,
49: <a href="#30">3.0</a>,
50: <a href="#31">3.1</a>,
1.246 deraadt 51: <a href="#32">3.2</a>,
52: <a href="#33">3.3</a>.
1.114 philen 53: </td>
54: </tr>
55: </table>
1.56 deraadt 56: <hr>
57:
1.106 deraadt 58: <dl>
59: <a name=goals></a>
1.110 deraadt 60: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Goal</font></h3><p>
1.22 deraadt 61:
1.14 deraadt 62: OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER
1.22 deraadt 63: ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our
64: open software development model permits us to take a more
65: uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP,
66: or other vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would
1.27 deraadt 67: not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with <a href=crypto.html>
1.45 deraadt 68: cryptography</a>, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards
69: fixing security problems.<p>
1.18 deraadt 70:
1.106 deraadt 71: <a name=disclosure></a>
1.110 deraadt 72: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Full Disclosure</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 73:
1.45 deraadt 74: Like many readers of the
1.196 jufi 75: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">
1.18 deraadt 76: BUGTRAQ mailing list</a>,
1.106 deraadt 77: we believe in full disclosure of security problems. In the
78: operating system arena, we were probably the first to embrace
79: the concept. Many vendors, even of free software, still try
80: to hide issues from their users.<p>
81:
82: Security information moves very fast in cracker circles. On the other
83: hand, our experience is that coding and releasing of proper security
84: fixes typically requires about an hour of work -- very fast fix
85: turnaround is possible. Thus we think that full disclosure helps the
86: people who really care about security.<p>
87:
1.153 jufi 88: <a name=process></a>
1.110 deraadt 89: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Audit Process</font></h3><p>
1.15 deraadt 90:
1.12 deraadt 91: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
1.45 deraadt 92: members who continue to search for and fix new security holes. We
93: have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to
94: increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of
1.106 deraadt 95: every critical software component. We are not so much looking for
96: security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if
1.138 deraadt 97: years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security
1.106 deraadt 98: issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the
99: better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system.
100: Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our
101: audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs
102: re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited
103: multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing
104: skills.<p>
1.12 deraadt 105:
1.94 deraadt 106: Some members of our security auditing team worked for Secure Networks,
107: the company that made the industry's premier network security scanning
108: software package Ballista (Secure Networks got purchased by Network
109: Associates, Ballista got renamed to Cybercop Scanner, and well...)
110: That company did a lot of security research, and thus fit in well
1.106 deraadt 111: with the OpenBSD stance. OpenBSD passed Ballista's tests with flying
112: colours since day 1.<p>
1.31 deraadt 113:
1.34 deraadt 114: Another facet of our security auditing process is its proactiveness.
1.45 deraadt 115: In most cases we have found that the determination of exploitability
116: is not an issue. During our ongoing auditing process we find many
117: bugs, and endeavor to fix them even though exploitability is not
118: proven. We fix the bug, and we move on to find other bugs to fix. We
119: have fixed many simple and obvious careless programming errors in code
120: and only months later discovered that the problems were in fact
121: exploitable. (Or, more likely someone on
1.197 jufi 122: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>
1.45 deraadt 123: would report that other operating systems were vulnerable to a `newly
124: discovered problem', and then it would be discovered that OpenBSD had
125: been fixed in a previous release). In other cases we have been saved
126: from full exploitability of complex step-by-step attacks because we
127: had fixed one of the intermediate steps. An example of where we
1.94 deraadt 128: managed such a success is the lpd advisory that Secure Networks put out.
129: <p>
1.29 deraadt 130:
1.110 deraadt 131: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>The Reward</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 132:
1.45 deraadt 133: Our proactive auditing process has really paid off. Statements like
1.35 deraadt 134: ``This problem was fixed in OpenBSD about 6 months ago'' have become
1.45 deraadt 135: commonplace in security forums like
1.197 jufi 136: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>.<p>
1.35 deraadt 137:
1.45 deraadt 138: The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately
1.80 espie 139: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0->2.1 transition,
1.45 deraadt 140: over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997. Thousands (yes,
141: thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long
142: period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol
143: implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem
144: races. Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were
145: fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed
146: fixing for our 2.2 release. We do not find as many problems anymore,
147: it is simply a case of diminishing returns. Recently the security
148: problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or
149: complicated. Still we will persist for a number of reasons:<p>
1.36 deraadt 150:
1.35 deraadt 151: <ul>
1.45 deraadt 152: <li>Occasionally we find a simple problem we missed earlier. Doh!
1.35 deraadt 153: <li>Security is like an arms race; the best attackers will continue
1.45 deraadt 154: to search for more complicated exploits, so we will too.
155: <li>Finding and fixing subtle flaws in complicated software is
156: a lot of fun.
1.35 deraadt 157: </ul>
1.106 deraadt 158: <p>
1.15 deraadt 159:
1.14 deraadt 160: The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue
1.28 deraadt 161: to find and fix new security flaws.<p>
1.12 deraadt 162:
1.106 deraadt 163: <a name=default></a>
1.110 deraadt 164: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>"Secure by Default"</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 165:
166: To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security
167: experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we
168: ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode. All non-essential
169: services are disabled. As the user/administrator becomes more familiar
170: with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other
171: parts of the system. During the process of learning how to enable a new
172: service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.<p>
173:
174: This is in stark contrast to the increasing number of systems that
175: ship with NFS, mountd, web servers, and various other services enabled
176: by default, creating instantaneous security problems for their users
177: within minutes after their first install.<p>
178:
1.153 jufi 179: <a name=crypto></a>
1.110 deraadt 180: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Cryptography</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 181:
182: And of course, since the OpenBSD project is based in Canada, it is possible
183: for us to integrate cryptography. For more information, read the page
1.116 deraadt 184: outlining <a href=crypto.html>what we have done with cryptography</a>.</p>
1.106 deraadt 185:
1.110 deraadt 186: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Advisories</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 187:
188: <dl>
189:
190: <li>
1.246 deraadt 191: <a name=33></a>
192:
193: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
194: These are the OpenBSD 3.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
195: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
196: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
197:
198: <p>
199: <ul>
1.251 ! avsm 200: <li><a href=errata.html#realpath>August 4, 2003:
1.249 millert 201: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
202: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.246 deraadt 203: </ul>
204:
1.247 david 205: <p>
1.246 deraadt 206: <li>
1.224 deraadt 207: <a name=32></a>
208:
209: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
210: These are the OpenBSD 3.2 advisories -- all these problems are solved
211: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
212: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
213:
214: <p>
215: <ul>
1.249 millert 216: <li><a href=errata32.html#realpath>August 4, 2003:
217: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
218: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.244 miod 219: <li><a href=errata32.html#sendmail2>March 31, 2003:
220: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
221: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.243 deraadt 222: <li><a href=errata32.html#kerberos>March 24, 2003:
1.242 millert 223: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
224: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.243 deraadt 225: <li><a href=errata32.html#kpr>March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 226: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 227: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.243 deraadt 228: <li><a href=errata32.html#blinding>March 18, 2003:
1.239 miod 229: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
230: timing attacks.</a>
1.243 deraadt 231: <li><a href=errata32.html#lprm>March 5, 2003:
1.238 millert 232: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to elevate
233: privileges to user daemon.</a>.
1.243 deraadt 234: <li><a href=errata32.html#sendmail>March 3, 2003:
1.237 miod 235: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
236: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.243 deraadt 237: <li><a href=errata32.html#httpd>February 25, 2003:
1.236 margarid 238: httpd(8) leaks file inode numbers via ETag header as well as
239: child PIDs in multipart MIME boundary generation. This could
240: lead, for example, to NFS exploitation because it uses inode
241: numbers as part of the file handle.</a>
1.243 deraadt 242: <li><a href=errata32.html#ssl>February 22, 2003:
1.234 margarid 243: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
244: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
245: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
246: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.243 deraadt 247: <li><a href=errata32.html#cvs>January 20, 2003:
1.232 millert 248: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
249: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.233 margarid 250: run as a privileged user.</a>
1.243 deraadt 251: <li><a href=errata32.html#named>November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 252: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
253: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.243 deraadt 254: <li><a href=errata32.html#pool>November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 255: A logic error in the pool kernel memory allocator could cause
256: memory corruption in low-memory situations, causing the system
257: to crash.</a>
1.243 deraadt 258: <li><a href=errata32.html#smrsh>November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 259: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
260: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.243 deraadt 261: <li><a href=errata32.html#pfbridge>November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 262: Network bridges running pf with scrubbing enabled could cause
263: mbuf corruption, causing the system to crash.</a>
1.243 deraadt 264: <li><a href=errata32.html#kadmin>October 21, 2002:
1.228 miod 265: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
266: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 267: </ul>
268:
1.248 miod 269: </dl>
270: <p>
271: OpenBSD 3.1 and earlier releases are not supported anymore. The following
272: paragraphs only list advisories issued while they were maintained; these
273: releases are likely to be affected by the advisories for more recent releases.
274: <br>
275:
276: <p>
277: <dl>
278:
1.227 miod 279: <p>
280: <li>
1.203 deraadt 281: <a name=31></a>
282:
283: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
284: These are the OpenBSD 3.1 advisories -- all these problems are solved
285: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
286: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
287:
288: <p>
289: <ul>
1.244 miod 290: <li><a href=errata31.html#sendmail2>March 31, 2003:
291: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
292: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.242 millert 293: <li><a href=errata31.html#kerberos>March 24, 2003:
294: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
295: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.240 miod 296: <li><a href=errata31.html#kpr>March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 297: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 298: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.239 miod 299: <li><a href=errata31.html#blinding>March 18, 2003:
300: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
301: timing attacks.</a>
1.238 millert 302: <li><a href=errata31.html#lprm>March 4, 2003:
303: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to gain
304: root privileges.</a>
1.237 miod 305: <li><a href=errata31.html#sendmail>March 3, 2003:
306: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
307: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.235 miod 308: <li><a href=errata31.html#ssl2>February 23, 2003:
309: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
310: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
311: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
312: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.232 millert 313: <li><a href=errata31.html#cvs>January 20, 2003:
314: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
315: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
316: run as a privileged user.
1.230 millert 317: <li><a href=errata31.html#named>November 14, 2002:
318: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
319: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.229 miod 320: <li><a href=errata31.html#kernresource>November 6, 2002:
321: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
322: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
323: <li><a href=errata31.html#smrsh>November 6, 2002:
324: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
325: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.226 miod 326: <li><a href=errata31.html#kadmin>October 21, 2002:
327: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
328: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 329: <li><a href=errata31.html#kerntime>October 2, 2002:
1.222 jason 330: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
331: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.224 deraadt 332: <li><a href=errata31.html#scarg>August 11, 2002:
1.221 provos 333: An insufficient boundary check in the select system call
1.220 miod 334: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
335: in kernel context.</a>
1.224 deraadt 336: <li><a href=errata31.html#ssl>July 30, 2002:
1.218 miod 337: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
338: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
339: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
340: exploitable.</a>
1.224 deraadt 341: <li><a href=errata31.html#xdr>July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 342: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
343: possible remote crash.</a>
1.224 deraadt 344: <li><a href=errata31.html#pppd>July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 345: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
346: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.224 deraadt 347: <li><a href=errata31.html#isakmpd>July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 348: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
349: crash.</a>
1.224 deraadt 350: <li><a href=errata31.html#ktrace>June 27, 2002:
1.215 miod 351: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.224 deraadt 352: <li><a href=errata31.html#modssl>June 26, 2002:
1.213 miod 353: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 354: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 355: <li><a href=errata31.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 356: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.224 deraadt 357: <li><a href=errata31.html#sshd>June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 358: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 359: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
360: privilege escalation.</a>
1.224 deraadt 361: <li><a href=errata31.html#httpd>June 19, 2002:
1.211 miod 362: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
363: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.224 deraadt 364: <li><a href=errata31.html#sshbsdauth>May 22, 2002:
1.209 markus 365: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups
366: in the password database, it is possible that sshd(8) does
367: ACL checks for the requested user name but uses the password
368: database entry of a different user for authentication. This
369: means that denied users might authenticate successfully
370: while permitted users could be locked out.</a>
1.224 deraadt 371: <li><a href=errata31.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 372: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
373: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.224 deraadt 374: <li><a href=errata31.html#sudo>April 25, 2002:
1.205 millert 375: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.224 deraadt 376: <li><a href=errata31.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
1.205 millert 377: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
378: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
379: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
380: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 381: </ul>
382:
1.235 miod 383: <p>
1.203 deraadt 384: <li>
1.187 deraadt 385: <a name=30></a>
386:
387: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
388: These are the OpenBSD 3.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
389: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
390: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
391:
392: <p>
393: <ul>
1.230 millert 394: <li><a href=errata30.html#named>November 14, 2002:
395: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
396: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.229 miod 397: <li><a href=errata30.html#kernresource>November 6, 2002:
398: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
399: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
400: <li><a href=errata30.html#smrsh>November 6, 2002:
401: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
402: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.226 miod 403: <li><a href=errata30.html#kadmin>October 21, 2002:
404: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
405: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.223 miod 406: <li><a href=errata30.html#kerntime>October 7, 2002:
407: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
408: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.220 miod 409: <li><a href=errata30.html#scarg>August 11, 2002:
410: An insufficient boundary check in the select and poll system calls
411: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
412: in kernel context.</a>
1.218 miod 413: <li><a href=errata30.html#ssl>July 30, 2002:
414: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
415: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
416: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
417: exploitable.</a>
418: <li><a href=errata30.html#xdr>July 29, 2002:
419: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
420: possible remote crash.</a>
421: <li><a href=errata30.html#pppd>July 29, 2002:
422: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
423: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.219 miod 424: <li><a href=errata30.html#isakmpd2>July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 425: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
426: crash.</a>
1.215 miod 427: <li><a href=errata30.html#ktrace>June 27, 2002:
428: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.212 millert 429: <li><a href=errata30.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
430: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.213 miod 431: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshdauth>June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 432: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 433: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
434: privilege escalation.</a>
435: <li><a href=errata30.html#modssl>June 24, 2002:
436: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 437: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.213 miod 438: <li><a href=errata30.html#httpd>June 19, 2002:
439: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
440: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.208 millert 441: <li><a href=errata30.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
442: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
443: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.205 millert 444: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
445: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
446: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
447: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
448: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
449: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
450: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 451: <li><a href=errata30.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
1.202 millert 452: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
453: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
454: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.203 deraadt 455: <li><a href=errata30.html#approval>March 19, 2002:
1.201 millert 456: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in
457: the password database, it is possible for the rexecd(8) and rshd(8)
458: daemons to execute a shell from a password database entry for a
459: different user. Similarly, atrun(8) may change to the wrong
460: home directory when running jobs.</a>
1.203 deraadt 461: <li><a href=errata30.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
1.200 millert 462: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
463: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
464: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
465: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.203 deraadt 466: <li><a href=errata30.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
1.198 millert 467: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 468: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.203 deraadt 469: <li><a href=errata30.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
1.192 jason 470: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
471: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
472: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.203 deraadt 473: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
1.191 millert 474: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
475: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
476: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.203 deraadt 477: <li><a href=errata30.html#lpd>November 28, 2001:
1.189 millert 478: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
479: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
480: remote line printer access.</a>
1.203 deraadt 481: <li><a href=errata30.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
1.188 millert 482: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
483: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.203 deraadt 484: <li><a href=errata30.html#pf>November 13, 2001:
1.190 mpech 485: pf(4) was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets,
486: resulting in a crash.</a>
1.203 deraadt 487: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshd>November 12, 2001:
1.190 mpech 488: A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
489: if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.</a>
1.187 deraadt 490: </ul>
491:
492: <p>
493: <li>
1.173 deraadt 494: <a name=29></a>
495:
496: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
497: These are the OpenBSD 2.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
498: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
1.179 jufi 499: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
1.173 deraadt 500:
501: <p>
502: <ul>
1.212 millert 503: <li><a href=errata29.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
504: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.208 millert 505: <li><a href=errata29.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
506: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
507: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.207 millert 508: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
509: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.206 millert 510: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
511: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
512: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
513: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
514: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.202 millert 515: <li><a href=errata29.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
516: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
517: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
518: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.200 millert 519: <li><a href=errata29.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
520: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
521: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
522: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
523: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.198 millert 524: <li><a href=errata29.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
525: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 526: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.198 millert 527: <li><a href=errata29.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
528: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
529: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
530: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.191 millert 531: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
532: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
533: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
534: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.189 millert 535: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd2>November 28, 2001:
536: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
537: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
538: remote line printer access.</a>
1.190 mpech 539: <li><a href=errata29.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
540: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
541: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.185 deraadt 542: <li><a href=errata29.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
1.184 millert 543: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
544: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185 deraadt 545: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
1.183 millert 546: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
547: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.185 deraadt 548: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
1.181 millert 549: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
550: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185 deraadt 551: <li><a href=errata29.html#nfs>July 30, 2001:
1.180 jason 552: A kernel buffer overflow in the NFS code can be used to execute
553: arbitrary code by users with mount privileges (only root by
1.181 millert 554: default).</a>
1.185 deraadt 555: <li><a href=errata29.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
1.178 aaron 556: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.185 deraadt 557: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshcookie>June 12, 2001:
1.177 markus 558: sshd(8) allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies"
559: if X11 forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled
560: by default.</a>
1.185 deraadt 561: <li><a href=errata29.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
1.176 millert 562: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
563: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.185 deraadt 564: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
1.174 millert 565: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
566: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 567: </ul>
568:
569: <p>
570: <li>
1.152 deraadt 571: <a name=28></a>
572:
573: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
574: These are the OpenBSD 2.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.154 millert 575: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
1.179 jufi 576: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
1.152 deraadt 577:
578: <p>
579: <ul>
1.184 millert 580: <li><a href=errata28.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
581: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
582: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.183 millert 583: <li><a href=errata28.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
584: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
585: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.181 millert 586: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
587: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
588: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.178 aaron 589: <li><a href=errata28.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
590: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.176 millert 591: <li><a href=errata28.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
592: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
593: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.175 millert 594: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
595: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
596: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 597: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipf_frag>Apr 23, 2001:
1.231 mickey 598: IPF contains a serious bug with its handling of fragment caching.</a>
1.173 deraadt 599: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob_limit>Apr 23, 2001:
1.172 ericj 600: ftpd(8) contains a potential DoS relating to glob(3).</a>
1.173 deraadt 601: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob>Apr 10, 2001:
1.170 ericj 602: The glob(3) library call contains multiple buffer overflows.</a>
1.173 deraadt 603: <li><a href=errata28.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
1.169 millert 604: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.173 deraadt 605: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipsec_ah>Mar 2, 2001:
1.167 ericj 606: Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun in the kernel.</a>
1.173 deraadt 607: <li><a href=errata28.html#userldt>Mar 2, 2001:
1.168 horacio 608: The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory.</a>
1.173 deraadt 609: <li><a href=errata28.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
1.171 millert 610: a non-exploitable buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.173 deraadt 611: <li><a href=errata28.html#named>Jan 29, 2001:
1.163 jason 612: merge named(8) with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities.</a>
1.173 deraadt 613: <li><a href=errata28.html#rnd>Jan 22, 2001:
1.162 jason 614: rnd(4) did not use all of its input when written to.</a>
1.173 deraadt 615: <li><a href=errata28.html#xlock>Dec 22, 2000:
1.159 ericj 616: xlock(1)'s authentication was re-done to authenticate via a named pipe. (patch and new xlock binaries included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 617: <li><a href=errata28.html#procfs>Dec 18, 2000:
1.157 ericj 618: Procfs contains numerous overflows. Procfs is not used by default in OpenBSD. (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 619: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos2>Dec 10, 2000:
1.156 deraadt 620: Another problem exists in KerberosIV libraries (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 621: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos>Dec 7, 2000:
1.155 deraadt 622: A set of problems in KerberosIV exist (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 623: <li><a href=errata28.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
1.154 millert 624: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 625: </ul>
626:
627: <p>
628: <li>
1.124 deraadt 629: <a name=27></a>
630:
631: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
632: These are the OpenBSD 2.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
633: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
634: OpenBSD 2.6 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.7.
635:
636: <p>
637: <ul>
1.169 millert 638: <li><a href=errata27.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
639: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
640: <li><a href=errata27.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
641: a buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.154 millert 642: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
643: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 644: <li><a href=errata27.html#sshforwarding>Nov 10, 2000:
645: Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding.
646: (patch included)</a>
647: <li><a href=errata27.html#xtrans>Oct 26, 2000:
1.151 matthieu 648: X11 libraries have 2 potential overflows in xtrans code.
649: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 650: <li><a href=errata27.html#httpd>Oct 18, 2000:
1.150 beck 651: Apache mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias modules could expose files
652: on the server in certain configurations if used.
653: (patch included)</a>
1.164 deraadt 654: <li><a href=errata27.html#telnetd>Oct 10, 2000:
1.149 millert 655: The telnet daemon does not strip out the TERMINFO, TERMINFO_DIRS,
656: TERMPATH and TERMCAP environment variables as it should.
657: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 658: <li><a href=errata27.html#format_strings>Oct 6, 2000:
1.148 millert 659: There are printf-style format string bugs in several privileged
660: programs. (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 661: <li><a href=errata27.html#curses>Oct 6, 2000:
1.147 millert 662: libcurses honored terminal descriptions in the $HOME/.terminfo
663: directory as well as in the TERMCAP environment variable for
664: setuid and setgid applications.
1.146 deraadt 665: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 666: <li><a href=errata27.html#talkd>Oct 6, 2000:
1.146 deraadt 667: A format string vulnerability exists in talkd(8).
668: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 669: <li><a href=errata27.html#pw_error>Oct 3, 2000:
1.145 aaron 670: A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error() function of the
671: libutil library, yielding localhost root through chpass(1).
672: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 673: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipsec>Sep 18, 2000:
1.144 jason 674: Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions.
675: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 676: <li><a href=errata27.html#xlock>Aug 16, 2000:
1.141 deraadt 677: A format string vulnerability (localhost root) exists in xlock(1).
678: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 679: <li><a href=errata27.html#X11_libs>July 14, 2000:
1.139 deraadt 680: Various bugs found in X11 libraries have various side effects, almost
681: completely denial of service in OpenBSD.
682: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 683: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 684: Just like pretty much all the other unix ftp daemons
685: on the planet, ftpd had a remote root hole in it.
686: Luckily, ftpd was not enabled by default.
1.137 deraadt 687: The problem exists if anonymous ftp is enabled.
1.136 deraadt 688: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 689: <li><a href=errata27.html#mopd>July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 690: Mopd, very rarely used, contained some buffer overflows.
691: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 692: <li><a href=errata27.html#libedit>June 28, 2000:
1.135 deraadt 693: libedit would check for a <b>.editrc</b> file in the current
694: directory. Not known to be a real security issue, but a patch
695: is available anyways.
696: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 697: <li><a href=errata27.html#dhclient>June 24, 2000:
1.134 deraadt 698: A serious bug in dhclient(8) could allow strings from a
699: malicious dhcp server to be executed in the shell as root.
700: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 701: <li><a href=errata27.html#isakmpd>June 9, 2000:
1.133 deraadt 702: A serious bug in isakmpd(8) policy handling wherein
703: policy verification could be completely bypassed in isakmpd.
704: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 705: <li><a href=errata27.html#uselogin>June 6, 2000:
1.132 deraadt 706: The non-default flag UseLogin in <b>/etc/sshd_config</b> is broken,
707: should not be used, and results in security problems on
708: other operating systems.</a>
1.152 deraadt 709: <li><a href=errata27.html#bridge>May 26, 2000:
1.129 deraadt 710: The bridge(4) <i>learning</i> flag may be bypassed.
1.128 deraadt 711: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 712: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
1.127 kjell 713: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
714: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
715:
1.124 deraadt 716: </ul>
717:
718: <p>
719: <li>
1.119 deraadt 720: <a name=26></a>
721:
722: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
723: These are the OpenBSD 2.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
724: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
725: OpenBSD 2.5 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.6.
726:
727: <p>
728: <ul>
1.130 deraadt 729: <li><a href=errata26.html#semconfig>May 26, 2000:
730: SYSV semaphore support contained an undocumented system call
1.131 deraadt 731: which could wedge semaphore-using processes from exiting. (patch included)</a>
1.127 kjell 732: <li><a href=errata26.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
733: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
734: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1.126 deraadt 735: <li><a href=errata26.html#xlockmore>May 25, 2000:
1.125 deraadt 736: xlockmore has a bug which a localhost attacker can use to gain
737: access to the encrypted root password hash (which is normally
1.245 miod 738: encoded using blowfish</a> (see
1.125 deraadt 739: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3">
740: crypt(3)</a>)
1.245 miod 741: (patch included).
1.126 deraadt 742: <li><a href=errata26.html#procfs>Jan 20, 2000:
1.123 deraadt 743: Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are
744: vulnerable to a very tricky exploit. procfs is not
745: mounted by default.
746: (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 747: <li><a href=errata26.html#sendmail>Dec 4, 1999:
748: Sendmail permitted any user to cause a aliases file wrap,
749: thus exposing the system to a race where the aliases file
750: did not exist.
1.119 deraadt 751: (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 752: <li><a href=errata26.html#poll>Dec 4, 1999:
753: Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.</a>
1.126 deraadt 754: <li><a href=errata26.html#sslUSA>Dec 2, 1999:
1.120 deraadt 755: A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
756: USA version of libssl, is possibly exploitable in
757: httpd, ssh, or isakmpd, if SSL/RSA features are enabled.
1.124 deraadt 758: (patch included).<br></a>
759: <strong>Update:</strong> Turns out that this was not exploitable
760: in any of the software included in OpenBSD 2.6.
1.190 mpech 761: <li><a href=errata26.html#ifmedia>Nov 9, 1999:
762: Any user could change interface media configurations, resulting in
763: a localhost denial of service attack.
1.121 deraadt 764: (patch included).</a>
1.119 deraadt 765: </ul>
766:
767: <p>
768: <li>
1.93 deraadt 769: <a name=25></a>
1.106 deraadt 770:
1.110 deraadt 771: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 772: These are the OpenBSD 2.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
773: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
774: OpenBSD 2.4 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.5.
775:
1.96 deraadt 776: <p>
1.104 deraadt 777: <ul>
1.117 deraadt 778: <li><a href=errata25.html#cron>Aug 30, 1999:
1.103 deraadt 779: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the
780: fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.
781: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 782: <li><a href=errata25.html#miscfs>Aug 12, 1999: The procfs and fdescfs
1.101 deraadt 783: filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset
784: in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
785: enabled by default). (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 786: <li><a href=errata25.html#profil>Aug 9, 1999: Stop profiling (see profil(2))
1.100 deraadt 787: when we execve() a new process. (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 788: <li><a href=errata25.html#ipsec_in_use>Aug 6, 1999: Packets that should have
1.98 deraadt 789: been handled by IPsec may be transmitted as cleartext.
790: PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
791: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 792: <li><a href=errata25.html#rc>Aug 5, 1999: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for
1.97 deraadt 793: motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir
794: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 795: <li><a href=errata25.html#chflags>Jul 30, 1999: Do not permit regular
1.95 deraadt 796: users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or block devices
797: which they may currently be the owner of (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 798: <li><a href=errata25.html#nroff>Jul 27, 1999: Cause groff(1) to be invoked
1.95 deraadt 799: with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1) (patch included).</a>
1.93 deraadt 800: </ul>
801:
1.106 deraadt 802: <p>
803: <li>
1.75 deraadt 804: <a name=24></a>
1.235 miod 805:
1.110 deraadt 806: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.75 deraadt 807: These are the OpenBSD 2.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
808: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
809: OpenBSD 2.3 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.4.
810:
1.96 deraadt 811: <p>
1.75 deraadt 812: <ul>
1.92 deraadt 813: <li><a href=errata24.html#poll>Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs
1.91 deraadt 814: to be constrained, to avoid kvm starvation (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 815: <li><a href=errata24.html#tss>Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops
1.91 deraadt 816: another kernel crash case caused by the <strong>crashme</strong>
817: program (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 818: <li><a href=errata24.html#nlink>Feb 25, 1999: An unbounded increment on the
1.90 deraadt 819: nlink value in FFS and EXT2FS filesystems can cause a system crash.
1.89 deraadt 820: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 821: <li><a href=errata24.html#ping>Feb 23, 1999: Yet another buffer overflow
1.88 deraadt 822: existed in ping(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 823: <li><a href=errata24.html#ipqrace>Feb 19, 1999: ipintr() had a race in use of
1.87 deraadt 824: the ipq, which could permit an attacker to cause a crash.
825: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 826: <li><a href=errata24.html#accept>Feb 17, 1999: A race condition in the
1.86 deraadt 827: kernel between accept(2) and select(2) could permit an attacker
828: to hang sockets from remote.
829: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 830: <li><a href=errata24.html#maxqueue>Feb 17, 1999: IP fragment assembly can
1.85 deraadt 831: bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
832: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 833: <li><a href=errata24.html#trctrap>Feb 12, 1999: i386 T_TRCTRAP handling and
1.84 deraadt 834: DDB interacted to possibly cause a crash.
835: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 836: <li><a href=errata24.html#rst>Feb 11, 1999: TCP/IP RST handling was sloppy.
1.83 deraadt 837: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 838: <li><a href=errata24.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81 deraadt 839: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 840: <li><a href=errata24.html#termcap>Nov 19, 1998: There is a possibly locally
1.82 deraadt 841: exploitable problem relating to environment variables in termcap
842: and curses. (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 843: <li><a href=errata24.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78 deraadt 844: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.75 deraadt 845: </ul>
846:
1.106 deraadt 847: <p>
848: <li>
1.58 deraadt 849: <a name=23></a>
1.235 miod 850:
1.110 deraadt 851: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.73 deraadt 852: These are the OpenBSD 2.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
853: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
854: OpenBSD 2.2 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.3.
1.53 matthieu 855:
1.96 deraadt 856: <p>
1.53 matthieu 857: <ul>
1.81 deraadt 858: <li><a href=errata23.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
859: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.78 deraadt 860: <li><a href=errata23.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
861: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 862: <li><a href=errata23.html#resolver>August 31, 1998: A benign looking resolver
863: buffer overflow bug was re-introduced accidentally (patches included).</a>
864: <li><a href=errata23.html#chpass>Aug 2, 1998:
865: chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
866: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.</a>
867: <li><a href=errata23.html#inetd>July 15, 1998: Inetd had a file descriptor leak.</a>
1.76 aaron 868: <li><a href=errata23.html#fdalloc>Jul 2, 1998: setuid and setgid processes
1.72 deraadt 869: should not be executed with fd slots 0, 1, or 2 free.
870: (patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 871: <li><a href=errata23.html#xlib>June 6, 1998: Further problems with the X
1.71 deraadt 872: libraries (patches included).</a>
1.76 aaron 873: <li><a href=errata23.html#kill>May 17, 1998: kill(2) of setuid/setgid target
1.66 deraadt 874: processes too permissive (4th revision patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 875: <li><a href=errata23.html#immutable>May 11, 1998: mmap() permits partial bypassing
1.60 deraadt 876: of immutable and append-only file flags. (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 877: <li><a href=errata23.html#ipsec>May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC packets
878: if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 879: <li><a href=errata23.html#xterm-xaw>May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm and Xaw
1.58 deraadt 880: (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.53 matthieu 881: </ul>
1.9 deraadt 882:
1.106 deraadt 883: <p>
884: <li>
1.58 deraadt 885: <a name=22></a>
1.235 miod 886:
1.110 deraadt 887: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.45 deraadt 888: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.55 deraadt 889: in <a href=23.html>OpenBSD 2.3</a>. Some of these problems
1.45 deraadt 890: still exist in other operating systems. (The supplied patches are for
891: OpenBSD 2.2; they may or may not work on OpenBSD 2.1).
1.9 deraadt 892:
1.96 deraadt 893: <p>
1.9 deraadt 894: <ul>
1.72 deraadt 895: <li><a href=errata22.html#ipsec>May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC
896: packets if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
897: <li><a href=errata22.html#xterm-xaw>May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm
898: and Xaw (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
899: <li><a href=errata22.html#uucpd>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer overflow in uucpd
900: (patch included).</a>
901: <li><a href=errata22.html#rmjob>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer mismanagement in lprm
902: (patch included).</a>
903: <li><a href=errata22.html#ping>Mar 31, 1998: Overflow in ping -R (patch included).</a>
904: <li><a href=errata22.html#named>Mar 30, 1998: Overflow in named fake-iquery
1.59 deraadt 905: (patch included).</a>
1.72 deraadt 906: <li><a href=errata22.html#mountd>Mar 2, 1998: Accidental NFS filesystem
907: export (patch included).</a>
1.112 philen 908: <li><a href="advisories/mmap.txt">Feb 26, 1998: Read-write mmap() flaw.</a>
1.72 deraadt 909: Revision 3 of the patch is available <a href=errata22.html#mmap>here</a>
1.112 philen 910: <li><a href="advisories/sourceroute.txt">Feb 19, 1998: Sourcerouted Packet
1.59 deraadt 911: Acceptance.</a>
1.50 deraadt 912: A patch is available <a href=errata22.html#sourceroute>here</a>.
1.122 rohee 913: <li><a href=errata22.html#ruserok>Feb 13, 1998: Setuid coredump & Ruserok()
1.72 deraadt 914: flaw (patch included).</a>
915: <li><a href=errata22.html#ldso>Feb 9, 1998: MIPS ld.so flaw (patch included).</a>
1.1 deraadt 916: </ul>
917:
1.106 deraadt 918: <p>
919: <li>
1.58 deraadt 920: <a name=21></a>
1.235 miod 921:
1.110 deraadt 922: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.52 deraadt 923: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories. All these problems are solved
924: in <a href=22.html>OpenBSD 2.2</a>. Some of these problems still
925: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.1, we
926: would strongly recommend an upgrade to the newest release, as this
927: patch list only attempts at fixing the most important security
928: problems. In particular, OpenBSD 2.2 fixes numerous localhost
929: security problems. Many of those problems were solved in ways which
930: make it hard for us to provide patches).
931:
1.96 deraadt 932: <p>
1.52 deraadt 933: <ul>
1.112 philen 934: <li><a href="advisories/signals.txt">Sep 15, 1997: Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
935: <li><a href="advisories/rfork.txt">Aug 2, 1997: Rfork() system call flaw
1.59 deraadt 936: (patch included)</a>
1.112 philen 937: <li><a href="advisories/procfs.txt">Jun 24, 1997: Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
1.52 deraadt 938: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 939:
1.106 deraadt 940: <p>
941: <li>
942: <a name=20></a>
1.235 miod 943:
1.110 deraadt 944: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.99 deraadt 945: These are the OpenBSD 2.0 advisories. All these problems are solved
946: in <a href=21.html>OpenBSD 2.1</a>. Some of these problems still
947: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.0, we
948: commend you for being there back in the old days!, but you're really
949: missing out if you don't install a new version!)
950:
951: <p>
952: <ul>
1.112 philen 953: <li><a href="advisories/res_random.txt">April 22, 1997: Predictable IDs in the
1.99 deraadt 954: resolver (patch included)</a>
955: <li>Many others... if people can hunt them down, please let me know
956: and we'll put them up here.
957: </ul>
958:
1.106 deraadt 959: </dl>
1.51 deraadt 960: <p>
1.106 deraadt 961:
962: <a name=watching></a>
1.110 deraadt 963: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Watching our Changes</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 964:
1.21 deraadt 965: Since we take a proactive stance with security, we are continually
966: finding and fixing new security problems. Not all of these problems
1.80 espie 967: get widely reported because (as stated earlier) many of them are not
1.45 deraadt 968: confirmed to be exploitable; many simple bugs we fix do turn out to
969: have security consequences we could not predict. We do not have the
970: time resources to make these changes available in the above format.<p>
1.21 deraadt 971:
972: Thus there are usually minor security fixes in the current source code
973: beyond the previous major OpenBSD release. We make a limited
1.45 deraadt 974: guarantee that these problems are of minimal impact and unproven
1.44 ian 975: exploitability. If we discover that a problem definitely matters for
1.45 deraadt 976: security, patches will show up here <strong>VERY</strong> quickly.<p>
1.21 deraadt 977:
1.45 deraadt 978: People who are really concerned with security can do a number of
979: things:<p>
1.21 deraadt 980:
981: <ul>
982: <li>If you understand security issues, watch our
1.27 deraadt 983: <a href=mail.html>source-changes mailing list</a> and keep an
1.23 deraadt 984: eye out for things which appear security related. Since
1.21 deraadt 985: exploitability is not proven for many of the fixes we make,
986: do not expect the relevant commit message to say "SECURITY FIX!".
987: If a problem is proven and serious, a patch will be available
988: here very shortly after.
1.161 horacio 989: <li>In addition to source changes, you can watch our <a href="mail.html">
1.160 ericj 990: security-announce mailing list</a> which will notify you for every
1.186 ian 991: security related item that the OpenBSD team deems as a possible threat,
1.160 ericj 992: and instruct you on how to patch the problem.
1.21 deraadt 993: <li>Track our current source code tree, and teach yourself how to do a
1.29 deraadt 994: complete system build from time to time (read /usr/src/Makefile
995: carefully). Users can make the assumption that the current
996: source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.
1.45 deraadt 997: However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;
998: it is nearly 300MB of source code, and problems do occur as we
999: transition between major releases.
1.115 ericj 1000: <li>Install a binary snapshot for your
1.80 espie 1001: architecture, which are made available fairly often. For
1.29 deraadt 1002: instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.
1.21 deraadt 1003: </ul>
1004:
1.9 deraadt 1005: <p>
1.153 jufi 1006: <a name=reporting></a>
1.110 deraadt 1007: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Reporting problems</font></h3><p>
1.3 deraadt 1008:
1.5 deraadt 1009: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.6 deraadt 1010: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
1.7 deraadt 1011: <br>
1.5 deraadt 1012: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
1.112 philen 1013: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href="advisories/pgpkey.txt">pgp key</a>.
1.5 deraadt 1014:
1.107 deraadt 1015: <p>
1016: <a name=papers></a>
1.110 deraadt 1017: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.107 deraadt 1018:
1019: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about security
1020: related changes they have done in OpenBSD. The postscript versions of these
1.108 deraadt 1021: documents are available as follows.<p>
1.107 deraadt 1022:
1023: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1024: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.118 deraadt 1025: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.153 jufi 1026: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.113 deraadt 1027: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
1.107 deraadt 1028: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1029: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1030: <p>
1031: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.118 deraadt 1032: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113 deraadt 1033: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
1034: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
1035: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
1036: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
1037: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.107 deraadt 1038: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1039: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1040: <p>
1041: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.118 deraadt 1042: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113 deraadt 1043: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
1044: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.109 deraadt 1045: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1046: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1047: <p>
1.118 deraadt 1048: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1049: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1050: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
1051: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1052: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1053: <p>
1.153 jufi 1054: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.142 deraadt 1055: <a href=events.html#sec2000>Usenix Security 2000</a>,
1056: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.143 provos 1057: <a href=papers/swapencrypt.ps>paper</a> and
1058: <a href=papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.142 deraadt 1059: <p>
1.107 deraadt 1060: </ul>
1061:
1.106 deraadt 1062: </dl>
1063:
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1.68 pauls 1065: <a href=index.html><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.24 deraadt 1066: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
1067: <br>
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