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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>,
1.261 ! david 52: <a href="#33">3.3</a>,
! 53: <a href="#34">3.4</a>.
1.114 philen 54: </td>
55: </tr>
56: </table>
1.56 deraadt 57: <hr>
58:
1.106 deraadt 59: <dl>
60: <a name=goals></a>
1.110 deraadt 61: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Goal</font></h3><p>
1.22 deraadt 62:
1.14 deraadt 63: OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER
1.22 deraadt 64: ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our
65: open software development model permits us to take a more
66: uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP,
67: or other vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would
1.27 deraadt 68: not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with <a href=crypto.html>
1.45 deraadt 69: cryptography</a>, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards
70: fixing security problems.<p>
1.18 deraadt 71:
1.106 deraadt 72: <a name=disclosure></a>
1.110 deraadt 73: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Full Disclosure</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 74:
1.45 deraadt 75: Like many readers of the
1.196 jufi 76: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">
1.18 deraadt 77: BUGTRAQ mailing list</a>,
1.106 deraadt 78: we believe in full disclosure of security problems. In the
79: operating system arena, we were probably the first to embrace
80: the concept. Many vendors, even of free software, still try
81: to hide issues from their users.<p>
82:
83: Security information moves very fast in cracker circles. On the other
84: hand, our experience is that coding and releasing of proper security
85: fixes typically requires about an hour of work -- very fast fix
86: turnaround is possible. Thus we think that full disclosure helps the
87: people who really care about security.<p>
88:
1.153 jufi 89: <a name=process></a>
1.110 deraadt 90: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Audit Process</font></h3><p>
1.15 deraadt 91:
1.12 deraadt 92: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
1.45 deraadt 93: members who continue to search for and fix new security holes. We
94: have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to
95: increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of
1.106 deraadt 96: every critical software component. We are not so much looking for
97: security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if
1.138 deraadt 98: years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security
1.106 deraadt 99: issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the
100: better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system.
101: Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our
102: audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs
103: re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited
104: multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing
105: skills.<p>
1.12 deraadt 106:
1.94 deraadt 107: Some members of our security auditing team worked for Secure Networks,
108: the company that made the industry's premier network security scanning
109: software package Ballista (Secure Networks got purchased by Network
110: Associates, Ballista got renamed to Cybercop Scanner, and well...)
111: That company did a lot of security research, and thus fit in well
1.106 deraadt 112: with the OpenBSD stance. OpenBSD passed Ballista's tests with flying
113: colours since day 1.<p>
1.31 deraadt 114:
1.34 deraadt 115: Another facet of our security auditing process is its proactiveness.
1.45 deraadt 116: In most cases we have found that the determination of exploitability
117: is not an issue. During our ongoing auditing process we find many
118: bugs, and endeavor to fix them even though exploitability is not
119: proven. We fix the bug, and we move on to find other bugs to fix. We
120: have fixed many simple and obvious careless programming errors in code
121: and only months later discovered that the problems were in fact
122: exploitable. (Or, more likely someone on
1.197 jufi 123: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>
1.45 deraadt 124: would report that other operating systems were vulnerable to a `newly
125: discovered problem', and then it would be discovered that OpenBSD had
126: been fixed in a previous release). In other cases we have been saved
127: from full exploitability of complex step-by-step attacks because we
128: had fixed one of the intermediate steps. An example of where we
1.94 deraadt 129: managed such a success is the lpd advisory that Secure Networks put out.
130: <p>
1.29 deraadt 131:
1.110 deraadt 132: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>The Reward</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 133:
1.45 deraadt 134: Our proactive auditing process has really paid off. Statements like
1.35 deraadt 135: ``This problem was fixed in OpenBSD about 6 months ago'' have become
1.45 deraadt 136: commonplace in security forums like
1.197 jufi 137: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>.<p>
1.35 deraadt 138:
1.45 deraadt 139: The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately
1.80 espie 140: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0->2.1 transition,
1.45 deraadt 141: over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997. Thousands (yes,
142: thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long
143: period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol
144: implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem
145: races. Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were
146: fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed
147: fixing for our 2.2 release. We do not find as many problems anymore,
148: it is simply a case of diminishing returns. Recently the security
149: problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or
150: complicated. Still we will persist for a number of reasons:<p>
1.36 deraadt 151:
1.35 deraadt 152: <ul>
1.45 deraadt 153: <li>Occasionally we find a simple problem we missed earlier. Doh!
1.35 deraadt 154: <li>Security is like an arms race; the best attackers will continue
1.45 deraadt 155: to search for more complicated exploits, so we will too.
156: <li>Finding and fixing subtle flaws in complicated software is
157: a lot of fun.
1.35 deraadt 158: </ul>
1.106 deraadt 159: <p>
1.15 deraadt 160:
1.14 deraadt 161: The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue
1.28 deraadt 162: to find and fix new security flaws.<p>
1.12 deraadt 163:
1.106 deraadt 164: <a name=default></a>
1.110 deraadt 165: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>"Secure by Default"</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 166:
167: To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security
168: experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we
169: ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode. All non-essential
170: services are disabled. As the user/administrator becomes more familiar
171: with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other
172: parts of the system. During the process of learning how to enable a new
173: service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.<p>
174:
175: This is in stark contrast to the increasing number of systems that
176: ship with NFS, mountd, web servers, and various other services enabled
177: by default, creating instantaneous security problems for their users
178: within minutes after their first install.<p>
179:
1.153 jufi 180: <a name=crypto></a>
1.110 deraadt 181: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Cryptography</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 182:
183: And of course, since the OpenBSD project is based in Canada, it is possible
184: for us to integrate cryptography. For more information, read the page
1.116 deraadt 185: outlining <a href=crypto.html>what we have done with cryptography</a>.</p>
1.106 deraadt 186:
1.110 deraadt 187: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Advisories</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 188:
189: <dl>
190:
191: <li>
1.261 ! david 192: <a name=34></a>
! 193:
! 194: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
! 195: These are the OpenBSD 3.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
! 196: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
! 197: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
! 198:
! 199: <p>
! 200: <ul>
! 201: <li>None yet.
! 202: </ul>
! 203:
! 204: <p>
! 205: <li>
1.246 deraadt 206: <a name=33></a>
207:
208: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
209: These are the OpenBSD 3.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
210: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
211: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
212:
213: <p>
214: <ul>
1.261 ! david 215: <li><a href=errata33.html#asn1>October 1, 2003:
1.257 millert 216: The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
217: allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
218: applications linked with ssl(3).</a>
1.261 ! david 219: <li><a href=errata33.html#pfnorm>September 24, 2003:
1.258 beck 220: Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260 margarid 221: remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.261 ! david 222: <li><a href=errata33.html#sendmail>September 17, 2003:
1.256 millert 223: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
224: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.261 ! david 225: <li><a href=errata33.html#sshbuffer>September 16, 2003:
1.255 millert 226: OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
227: that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.261 ! david 228: <li><a href=errata33.html#sysvsem>September 10, 2003:
1.254 millert 229: Root may be able to reduce the security level by taking advantage of
230: an integer overflow when the semaphore limits are made very large.</a>
1.261 ! david 231: <li><a href=errata33.html#semget>August 20, 2003:
1.252 millert 232: An improper bounds check in the kernel may allow a local user
233: to panic the kernel.</a>
1.261 ! david 234: <li><a href=errata33.html#realpath>August 4, 2003:
1.249 millert 235: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
236: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.246 deraadt 237: </ul>
238:
1.247 david 239: <p>
1.246 deraadt 240: <li>
1.224 deraadt 241: <a name=32></a>
242:
243: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
244: These are the OpenBSD 3.2 advisories -- all these problems are solved
245: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
246: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
247:
248: <p>
249: <ul>
1.257 millert 250: <li><a href=errata32.html#asn1>October 1, 2003:
251: The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
252: allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
253: applications linked with ssl(3). This does not affect OpenSSH.</a>
1.259 margarid 254: <li><a href=errata32.html#pfnorm>September 24, 2003:
1.258 beck 255: Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260 margarid 256: remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.256 millert 257: <li><a href=errata32.html#sendmail4>September 17, 2003:
258: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
259: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.255 millert 260: <li><a href=errata32.html#sshbuffer>September 16, 2003:
261: OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
262: that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.253 brad 263: <li><a href=errata32.html#sendmail3>August 25, 2003:
264: Fix for a potential security issue in
265: sendmail(8) with respect to DNS maps.</a>
1.249 millert 266: <li><a href=errata32.html#realpath>August 4, 2003:
267: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
268: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.244 miod 269: <li><a href=errata32.html#sendmail2>March 31, 2003:
270: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
271: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.243 deraadt 272: <li><a href=errata32.html#kerberos>March 24, 2003:
1.242 millert 273: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
274: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.243 deraadt 275: <li><a href=errata32.html#kpr>March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 276: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 277: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.243 deraadt 278: <li><a href=errata32.html#blinding>March 18, 2003:
1.239 miod 279: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
280: timing attacks.</a>
1.243 deraadt 281: <li><a href=errata32.html#lprm>March 5, 2003:
1.238 millert 282: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to elevate
283: privileges to user daemon.</a>.
1.243 deraadt 284: <li><a href=errata32.html#sendmail>March 3, 2003:
1.237 miod 285: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
286: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.243 deraadt 287: <li><a href=errata32.html#httpd>February 25, 2003:
1.236 margarid 288: httpd(8) leaks file inode numbers via ETag header as well as
289: child PIDs in multipart MIME boundary generation. This could
290: lead, for example, to NFS exploitation because it uses inode
291: numbers as part of the file handle.</a>
1.243 deraadt 292: <li><a href=errata32.html#ssl>February 22, 2003:
1.234 margarid 293: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
294: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
295: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
296: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.243 deraadt 297: <li><a href=errata32.html#cvs>January 20, 2003:
1.232 millert 298: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
299: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.233 margarid 300: run as a privileged user.</a>
1.243 deraadt 301: <li><a href=errata32.html#named>November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 302: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
303: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.243 deraadt 304: <li><a href=errata32.html#pool>November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 305: A logic error in the pool kernel memory allocator could cause
306: memory corruption in low-memory situations, causing the system
307: to crash.</a>
1.243 deraadt 308: <li><a href=errata32.html#smrsh>November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 309: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
310: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.243 deraadt 311: <li><a href=errata32.html#pfbridge>November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 312: Network bridges running pf with scrubbing enabled could cause
313: mbuf corruption, causing the system to crash.</a>
1.243 deraadt 314: <li><a href=errata32.html#kadmin>October 21, 2002:
1.228 miod 315: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
316: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 317: </ul>
318:
1.248 miod 319: </dl>
320: <p>
321: OpenBSD 3.1 and earlier releases are not supported anymore. The following
322: paragraphs only list advisories issued while they were maintained; these
323: releases are likely to be affected by the advisories for more recent releases.
324: <br>
325:
326: <p>
327: <dl>
328:
1.227 miod 329: <p>
330: <li>
1.203 deraadt 331: <a name=31></a>
332:
333: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
334: These are the OpenBSD 3.1 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.258 beck 335: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. The
336: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a> for 3.1 is no longer being maintained,
337: you should update your machine.
1.203 deraadt 338:
339: <p>
340: <ul>
1.244 miod 341: <li><a href=errata31.html#sendmail2>March 31, 2003:
342: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
343: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.242 millert 344: <li><a href=errata31.html#kerberos>March 24, 2003:
345: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
346: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.240 miod 347: <li><a href=errata31.html#kpr>March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 348: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 349: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.239 miod 350: <li><a href=errata31.html#blinding>March 18, 2003:
351: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
352: timing attacks.</a>
1.238 millert 353: <li><a href=errata31.html#lprm>March 4, 2003:
354: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to gain
355: root privileges.</a>
1.237 miod 356: <li><a href=errata31.html#sendmail>March 3, 2003:
357: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
358: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.235 miod 359: <li><a href=errata31.html#ssl2>February 23, 2003:
360: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
361: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
362: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
363: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.232 millert 364: <li><a href=errata31.html#cvs>January 20, 2003:
365: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
366: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
367: run as a privileged user.
1.230 millert 368: <li><a href=errata31.html#named>November 14, 2002:
369: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
370: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.229 miod 371: <li><a href=errata31.html#kernresource>November 6, 2002:
372: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
373: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
374: <li><a href=errata31.html#smrsh>November 6, 2002:
375: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
376: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.226 miod 377: <li><a href=errata31.html#kadmin>October 21, 2002:
378: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
379: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 380: <li><a href=errata31.html#kerntime>October 2, 2002:
1.222 jason 381: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
382: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.224 deraadt 383: <li><a href=errata31.html#scarg>August 11, 2002:
1.221 provos 384: An insufficient boundary check in the select system call
1.220 miod 385: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
386: in kernel context.</a>
1.224 deraadt 387: <li><a href=errata31.html#ssl>July 30, 2002:
1.218 miod 388: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
389: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
390: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
391: exploitable.</a>
1.224 deraadt 392: <li><a href=errata31.html#xdr>July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 393: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
394: possible remote crash.</a>
1.224 deraadt 395: <li><a href=errata31.html#pppd>July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 396: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
397: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.224 deraadt 398: <li><a href=errata31.html#isakmpd>July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 399: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
400: crash.</a>
1.224 deraadt 401: <li><a href=errata31.html#ktrace>June 27, 2002:
1.215 miod 402: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.224 deraadt 403: <li><a href=errata31.html#modssl>June 26, 2002:
1.213 miod 404: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 405: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 406: <li><a href=errata31.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 407: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.224 deraadt 408: <li><a href=errata31.html#sshd>June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 409: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 410: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
411: privilege escalation.</a>
1.224 deraadt 412: <li><a href=errata31.html#httpd>June 19, 2002:
1.211 miod 413: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
414: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.224 deraadt 415: <li><a href=errata31.html#sshbsdauth>May 22, 2002:
1.209 markus 416: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups
417: in the password database, it is possible that sshd(8) does
418: ACL checks for the requested user name but uses the password
419: database entry of a different user for authentication. This
420: means that denied users might authenticate successfully
421: while permitted users could be locked out.</a>
1.224 deraadt 422: <li><a href=errata31.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 423: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
424: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.224 deraadt 425: <li><a href=errata31.html#sudo>April 25, 2002:
1.205 millert 426: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.224 deraadt 427: <li><a href=errata31.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
1.205 millert 428: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
429: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
430: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
431: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 432: </ul>
433:
1.235 miod 434: <p>
1.203 deraadt 435: <li>
1.187 deraadt 436: <a name=30></a>
437:
438: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 3.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
439: These are the OpenBSD 3.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.258 beck 440: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. The
441: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a> for 3.0 is no longer being maintained,
442: you should update your machine.
1.187 deraadt 443:
444: <p>
445: <ul>
1.230 millert 446: <li><a href=errata30.html#named>November 14, 2002:
447: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
448: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.229 miod 449: <li><a href=errata30.html#kernresource>November 6, 2002:
450: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
451: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
452: <li><a href=errata30.html#smrsh>November 6, 2002:
453: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
454: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.226 miod 455: <li><a href=errata30.html#kadmin>October 21, 2002:
456: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
457: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.223 miod 458: <li><a href=errata30.html#kerntime>October 7, 2002:
459: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
460: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.220 miod 461: <li><a href=errata30.html#scarg>August 11, 2002:
462: An insufficient boundary check in the select and poll system calls
463: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
464: in kernel context.</a>
1.218 miod 465: <li><a href=errata30.html#ssl>July 30, 2002:
466: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
467: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
468: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
469: exploitable.</a>
470: <li><a href=errata30.html#xdr>July 29, 2002:
471: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
472: possible remote crash.</a>
473: <li><a href=errata30.html#pppd>July 29, 2002:
474: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
475: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.219 miod 476: <li><a href=errata30.html#isakmpd2>July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 477: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
478: crash.</a>
1.215 miod 479: <li><a href=errata30.html#ktrace>June 27, 2002:
480: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.212 millert 481: <li><a href=errata30.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
482: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.213 miod 483: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshdauth>June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 484: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 485: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
486: privilege escalation.</a>
487: <li><a href=errata30.html#modssl>June 24, 2002:
488: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 489: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.213 miod 490: <li><a href=errata30.html#httpd>June 19, 2002:
491: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
492: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.208 millert 493: <li><a href=errata30.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
494: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
495: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.205 millert 496: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
497: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
498: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
499: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
500: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
501: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
502: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 503: <li><a href=errata30.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
1.202 millert 504: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
505: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
506: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.203 deraadt 507: <li><a href=errata30.html#approval>March 19, 2002:
1.201 millert 508: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in
509: the password database, it is possible for the rexecd(8) and rshd(8)
510: daemons to execute a shell from a password database entry for a
511: different user. Similarly, atrun(8) may change to the wrong
512: home directory when running jobs.</a>
1.203 deraadt 513: <li><a href=errata30.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
1.200 millert 514: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
515: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
516: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
517: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.203 deraadt 518: <li><a href=errata30.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
1.198 millert 519: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 520: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.203 deraadt 521: <li><a href=errata30.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
1.192 jason 522: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
523: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
524: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.203 deraadt 525: <li><a href=errata30.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
1.191 millert 526: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
527: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
528: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.203 deraadt 529: <li><a href=errata30.html#lpd>November 28, 2001:
1.189 millert 530: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
531: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
532: remote line printer access.</a>
1.203 deraadt 533: <li><a href=errata30.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
1.188 millert 534: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
535: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.203 deraadt 536: <li><a href=errata30.html#pf>November 13, 2001:
1.190 mpech 537: pf(4) was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets,
538: resulting in a crash.</a>
1.203 deraadt 539: <li><a href=errata30.html#sshd>November 12, 2001:
1.190 mpech 540: A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
541: if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.</a>
1.187 deraadt 542: </ul>
543:
544: <p>
545: <li>
1.173 deraadt 546: <a name=29></a>
547:
548: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
549: These are the OpenBSD 2.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.258 beck 550: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. The
551: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>. for 2.9 is no longer being maintained,
552: you should update your machine.
553:
1.173 deraadt 554:
555: <p>
556: <ul>
1.212 millert 557: <li><a href=errata29.html#resolver>June 25, 2002:
558: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.208 millert 559: <li><a href=errata29.html#fdalloc2>May 8, 2002:
560: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
561: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.207 millert 562: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo2>April 25, 2002:
563: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.206 millert 564: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshafs>April 22, 2002:
565: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
566: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
567: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
568: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.202 millert 569: <li><a href=errata29.html#mail>April 11, 2002:
570: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
571: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
572: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.200 millert 573: <li><a href=errata29.html#zlib>March 13, 2002:
574: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
575: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
576: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
577: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.198 millert 578: <li><a href=errata29.html#openssh>March 8, 2002:
579: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 580: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.198 millert 581: <li><a href=errata29.html#ptrace>January 21, 2002:
582: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
583: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
584: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.191 millert 585: <li><a href=errata29.html#sudo>January 17, 2002:
586: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
587: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
588: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.189 millert 589: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd2>November 28, 2001:
590: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
591: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
592: remote line printer access.</a>
1.190 mpech 593: <li><a href=errata29.html#vi.recover>November 13, 2001:
594: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
595: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.185 deraadt 596: <li><a href=errata29.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
1.184 millert 597: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
598: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185 deraadt 599: <li><a href=errata29.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
1.183 millert 600: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
601: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.185 deraadt 602: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
1.181 millert 603: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
604: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.185 deraadt 605: <li><a href=errata29.html#nfs>July 30, 2001:
1.180 jason 606: A kernel buffer overflow in the NFS code can be used to execute
607: arbitrary code by users with mount privileges (only root by
1.181 millert 608: default).</a>
1.185 deraadt 609: <li><a href=errata29.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
1.178 aaron 610: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.185 deraadt 611: <li><a href=errata29.html#sshcookie>June 12, 2001:
1.177 markus 612: sshd(8) allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies"
613: if X11 forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled
614: by default.</a>
1.185 deraadt 615: <li><a href=errata29.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
1.176 millert 616: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
617: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.185 deraadt 618: <li><a href=errata29.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
1.174 millert 619: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
620: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 621: </ul>
622:
623: <p>
624: <li>
1.152 deraadt 625: <a name=28></a>
626:
627: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
628: These are the OpenBSD 2.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.258 beck 629: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. The
630: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>. for 2.8 is no longer being maintained,
631: you should update your machine.
632:
1.152 deraadt 633:
634: <p>
635: <ul>
1.184 millert 636: <li><a href=errata28.html#uucp>September 11, 2001:
637: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
638: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.183 millert 639: <li><a href=errata28.html#lpd>August 29, 2001:
640: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
641: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.181 millert 642: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail2>August 21, 2001:
643: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
644: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.178 aaron 645: <li><a href=errata28.html#kernexec>June 15, 2001:
646: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.176 millert 647: <li><a href=errata28.html#fts>May 30, 2001:
648: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
649: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.175 millert 650: <li><a href=errata28.html#sendmail>May 29, 2001:
651: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
652: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 653: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipf_frag>Apr 23, 2001:
1.231 mickey 654: IPF contains a serious bug with its handling of fragment caching.</a>
1.173 deraadt 655: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob_limit>Apr 23, 2001:
1.172 ericj 656: ftpd(8) contains a potential DoS relating to glob(3).</a>
1.173 deraadt 657: <li><a href=errata28.html#glob>Apr 10, 2001:
1.170 ericj 658: The glob(3) library call contains multiple buffer overflows.</a>
1.173 deraadt 659: <li><a href=errata28.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
1.169 millert 660: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.173 deraadt 661: <li><a href=errata28.html#ipsec_ah>Mar 2, 2001:
1.167 ericj 662: Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun in the kernel.</a>
1.173 deraadt 663: <li><a href=errata28.html#userldt>Mar 2, 2001:
1.168 horacio 664: The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory.</a>
1.173 deraadt 665: <li><a href=errata28.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
1.171 millert 666: a non-exploitable buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.173 deraadt 667: <li><a href=errata28.html#named>Jan 29, 2001:
1.163 jason 668: merge named(8) with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities.</a>
1.173 deraadt 669: <li><a href=errata28.html#rnd>Jan 22, 2001:
1.162 jason 670: rnd(4) did not use all of its input when written to.</a>
1.173 deraadt 671: <li><a href=errata28.html#xlock>Dec 22, 2000:
1.159 ericj 672: xlock(1)'s authentication was re-done to authenticate via a named pipe. (patch and new xlock binaries included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 673: <li><a href=errata28.html#procfs>Dec 18, 2000:
1.157 ericj 674: Procfs contains numerous overflows. Procfs is not used by default in OpenBSD. (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 675: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos2>Dec 10, 2000:
1.156 deraadt 676: Another problem exists in KerberosIV libraries (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 677: <li><a href=errata28.html#kerberos>Dec 7, 2000:
1.155 deraadt 678: A set of problems in KerberosIV exist (patch included).</a>
1.173 deraadt 679: <li><a href=errata28.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
1.154 millert 680: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 681: </ul>
682:
683: <p>
684: <li>
1.124 deraadt 685: <a name=27></a>
686:
687: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
688: These are the OpenBSD 2.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
689: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
690: OpenBSD 2.6 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.7.
691:
692: <p>
693: <ul>
1.169 millert 694: <li><a href=errata27.html#readline>Mar 18, 2001:
695: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
696: <li><a href=errata27.html#sudo>Feb 22, 2001:
697: a buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.154 millert 698: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>Dec 4, 2000:
699: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 700: <li><a href=errata27.html#sshforwarding>Nov 10, 2000:
701: Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding.
702: (patch included)</a>
703: <li><a href=errata27.html#xtrans>Oct 26, 2000:
1.151 matthieu 704: X11 libraries have 2 potential overflows in xtrans code.
705: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 706: <li><a href=errata27.html#httpd>Oct 18, 2000:
1.150 beck 707: Apache mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias modules could expose files
708: on the server in certain configurations if used.
709: (patch included)</a>
1.164 deraadt 710: <li><a href=errata27.html#telnetd>Oct 10, 2000:
1.149 millert 711: The telnet daemon does not strip out the TERMINFO, TERMINFO_DIRS,
712: TERMPATH and TERMCAP environment variables as it should.
713: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 714: <li><a href=errata27.html#format_strings>Oct 6, 2000:
1.148 millert 715: There are printf-style format string bugs in several privileged
716: programs. (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 717: <li><a href=errata27.html#curses>Oct 6, 2000:
1.147 millert 718: libcurses honored terminal descriptions in the $HOME/.terminfo
719: directory as well as in the TERMCAP environment variable for
720: setuid and setgid applications.
1.146 deraadt 721: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 722: <li><a href=errata27.html#talkd>Oct 6, 2000:
1.146 deraadt 723: A format string vulnerability exists in talkd(8).
724: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 725: <li><a href=errata27.html#pw_error>Oct 3, 2000:
1.145 aaron 726: A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error() function of the
727: libutil library, yielding localhost root through chpass(1).
728: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 729: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipsec>Sep 18, 2000:
1.144 jason 730: Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions.
731: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 732: <li><a href=errata27.html#xlock>Aug 16, 2000:
1.141 deraadt 733: A format string vulnerability (localhost root) exists in xlock(1).
734: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 735: <li><a href=errata27.html#X11_libs>July 14, 2000:
1.139 deraadt 736: Various bugs found in X11 libraries have various side effects, almost
737: completely denial of service in OpenBSD.
738: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 739: <li><a href=errata27.html#ftpd>July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 740: Just like pretty much all the other unix ftp daemons
741: on the planet, ftpd had a remote root hole in it.
742: Luckily, ftpd was not enabled by default.
1.137 deraadt 743: The problem exists if anonymous ftp is enabled.
1.136 deraadt 744: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 745: <li><a href=errata27.html#mopd>July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 746: Mopd, very rarely used, contained some buffer overflows.
747: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 748: <li><a href=errata27.html#libedit>June 28, 2000:
1.135 deraadt 749: libedit would check for a <b>.editrc</b> file in the current
750: directory. Not known to be a real security issue, but a patch
751: is available anyways.
752: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 753: <li><a href=errata27.html#dhclient>June 24, 2000:
1.134 deraadt 754: A serious bug in dhclient(8) could allow strings from a
755: malicious dhcp server to be executed in the shell as root.
756: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 757: <li><a href=errata27.html#isakmpd>June 9, 2000:
1.133 deraadt 758: A serious bug in isakmpd(8) policy handling wherein
759: policy verification could be completely bypassed in isakmpd.
760: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 761: <li><a href=errata27.html#uselogin>June 6, 2000:
1.132 deraadt 762: The non-default flag UseLogin in <b>/etc/sshd_config</b> is broken,
763: should not be used, and results in security problems on
764: other operating systems.</a>
1.152 deraadt 765: <li><a href=errata27.html#bridge>May 26, 2000:
1.129 deraadt 766: The bridge(4) <i>learning</i> flag may be bypassed.
1.128 deraadt 767: (patch included)</a>
1.152 deraadt 768: <li><a href=errata27.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
1.127 kjell 769: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
770: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
771:
1.124 deraadt 772: </ul>
773:
774: <p>
775: <li>
1.119 deraadt 776: <a name=26></a>
777:
778: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
779: These are the OpenBSD 2.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
780: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
781: OpenBSD 2.5 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.6.
782:
783: <p>
784: <ul>
1.130 deraadt 785: <li><a href=errata26.html#semconfig>May 26, 2000:
786: SYSV semaphore support contained an undocumented system call
1.131 deraadt 787: which could wedge semaphore-using processes from exiting. (patch included)</a>
1.127 kjell 788: <li><a href=errata26.html#ipf>May 25, 2000:
789: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
790: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1.126 deraadt 791: <li><a href=errata26.html#xlockmore>May 25, 2000:
1.125 deraadt 792: xlockmore has a bug which a localhost attacker can use to gain
793: access to the encrypted root password hash (which is normally
1.245 miod 794: encoded using blowfish</a> (see
1.125 deraadt 795: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3">
796: crypt(3)</a>)
1.245 miod 797: (patch included).
1.126 deraadt 798: <li><a href=errata26.html#procfs>Jan 20, 2000:
1.123 deraadt 799: Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are
800: vulnerable to a very tricky exploit. procfs is not
801: mounted by default.
802: (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 803: <li><a href=errata26.html#sendmail>Dec 4, 1999:
804: Sendmail permitted any user to cause a aliases file wrap,
805: thus exposing the system to a race where the aliases file
806: did not exist.
1.119 deraadt 807: (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 808: <li><a href=errata26.html#poll>Dec 4, 1999:
809: Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.</a>
1.126 deraadt 810: <li><a href=errata26.html#sslUSA>Dec 2, 1999:
1.120 deraadt 811: A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
812: USA version of libssl, is possibly exploitable in
813: httpd, ssh, or isakmpd, if SSL/RSA features are enabled.
1.124 deraadt 814: (patch included).<br></a>
815: <strong>Update:</strong> Turns out that this was not exploitable
816: in any of the software included in OpenBSD 2.6.
1.190 mpech 817: <li><a href=errata26.html#ifmedia>Nov 9, 1999:
818: Any user could change interface media configurations, resulting in
819: a localhost denial of service attack.
1.121 deraadt 820: (patch included).</a>
1.119 deraadt 821: </ul>
822:
823: <p>
824: <li>
1.93 deraadt 825: <a name=25></a>
1.106 deraadt 826:
1.110 deraadt 827: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 828: These are the OpenBSD 2.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
829: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
830: OpenBSD 2.4 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.5.
831:
1.96 deraadt 832: <p>
1.104 deraadt 833: <ul>
1.117 deraadt 834: <li><a href=errata25.html#cron>Aug 30, 1999:
1.103 deraadt 835: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the
836: fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.
837: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 838: <li><a href=errata25.html#miscfs>Aug 12, 1999: The procfs and fdescfs
1.101 deraadt 839: filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset
840: in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
841: enabled by default). (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 842: <li><a href=errata25.html#profil>Aug 9, 1999: Stop profiling (see profil(2))
1.100 deraadt 843: when we execve() a new process. (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 844: <li><a href=errata25.html#ipsec_in_use>Aug 6, 1999: Packets that should have
1.98 deraadt 845: been handled by IPsec may be transmitted as cleartext.
846: PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
847: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 848: <li><a href=errata25.html#rc>Aug 5, 1999: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for
1.97 deraadt 849: motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir
850: (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 851: <li><a href=errata25.html#chflags>Jul 30, 1999: Do not permit regular
1.95 deraadt 852: users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or block devices
853: which they may currently be the owner of (patch included).</a>
1.117 deraadt 854: <li><a href=errata25.html#nroff>Jul 27, 1999: Cause groff(1) to be invoked
1.95 deraadt 855: with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1) (patch included).</a>
1.93 deraadt 856: </ul>
857:
1.106 deraadt 858: <p>
859: <li>
1.75 deraadt 860: <a name=24></a>
1.235 miod 861:
1.110 deraadt 862: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.75 deraadt 863: These are the OpenBSD 2.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
864: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
865: OpenBSD 2.3 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.4.
866:
1.96 deraadt 867: <p>
1.75 deraadt 868: <ul>
1.92 deraadt 869: <li><a href=errata24.html#poll>Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs
1.91 deraadt 870: to be constrained, to avoid kvm starvation (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 871: <li><a href=errata24.html#tss>Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops
1.91 deraadt 872: another kernel crash case caused by the <strong>crashme</strong>
873: program (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 874: <li><a href=errata24.html#nlink>Feb 25, 1999: An unbounded increment on the
1.90 deraadt 875: nlink value in FFS and EXT2FS filesystems can cause a system crash.
1.89 deraadt 876: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 877: <li><a href=errata24.html#ping>Feb 23, 1999: Yet another buffer overflow
1.88 deraadt 878: existed in ping(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 879: <li><a href=errata24.html#ipqrace>Feb 19, 1999: ipintr() had a race in use of
1.87 deraadt 880: the ipq, which could permit an attacker to cause a crash.
881: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 882: <li><a href=errata24.html#accept>Feb 17, 1999: A race condition in the
1.86 deraadt 883: kernel between accept(2) and select(2) could permit an attacker
884: to hang sockets from remote.
885: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 886: <li><a href=errata24.html#maxqueue>Feb 17, 1999: IP fragment assembly can
1.85 deraadt 887: bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
888: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 889: <li><a href=errata24.html#trctrap>Feb 12, 1999: i386 T_TRCTRAP handling and
1.84 deraadt 890: DDB interacted to possibly cause a crash.
891: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 892: <li><a href=errata24.html#rst>Feb 11, 1999: TCP/IP RST handling was sloppy.
1.83 deraadt 893: (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 894: <li><a href=errata24.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81 deraadt 895: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 896: <li><a href=errata24.html#termcap>Nov 19, 1998: There is a possibly locally
1.82 deraadt 897: exploitable problem relating to environment variables in termcap
898: and curses. (patch included).</a>
1.92 deraadt 899: <li><a href=errata24.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78 deraadt 900: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.75 deraadt 901: </ul>
902:
1.106 deraadt 903: <p>
904: <li>
1.58 deraadt 905: <a name=23></a>
1.235 miod 906:
1.110 deraadt 907: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.73 deraadt 908: These are the OpenBSD 2.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
909: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
910: OpenBSD 2.2 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.3.
1.53 matthieu 911:
1.96 deraadt 912: <p>
1.53 matthieu 913: <ul>
1.81 deraadt 914: <li><a href=errata23.html#bootpd>Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
915: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.78 deraadt 916: <li><a href=errata23.html#tcpfix>Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
917: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 918: <li><a href=errata23.html#resolver>August 31, 1998: A benign looking resolver
919: buffer overflow bug was re-introduced accidentally (patches included).</a>
920: <li><a href=errata23.html#chpass>Aug 2, 1998:
921: chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
922: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.</a>
923: <li><a href=errata23.html#inetd>July 15, 1998: Inetd had a file descriptor leak.</a>
1.76 aaron 924: <li><a href=errata23.html#fdalloc>Jul 2, 1998: setuid and setgid processes
1.72 deraadt 925: should not be executed with fd slots 0, 1, or 2 free.
926: (patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 927: <li><a href=errata23.html#xlib>June 6, 1998: Further problems with the X
1.71 deraadt 928: libraries (patches included).</a>
1.76 aaron 929: <li><a href=errata23.html#kill>May 17, 1998: kill(2) of setuid/setgid target
1.66 deraadt 930: processes too permissive (4th revision patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 931: <li><a href=errata23.html#immutable>May 11, 1998: mmap() permits partial bypassing
1.60 deraadt 932: of immutable and append-only file flags. (patch included).</a>
1.190 mpech 933: <li><a href=errata23.html#ipsec>May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC packets
934: if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.76 aaron 935: <li><a href=errata23.html#xterm-xaw>May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm and Xaw
1.58 deraadt 936: (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.53 matthieu 937: </ul>
1.9 deraadt 938:
1.106 deraadt 939: <p>
940: <li>
1.58 deraadt 941: <a name=22></a>
1.235 miod 942:
1.110 deraadt 943: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.45 deraadt 944: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.55 deraadt 945: in <a href=23.html>OpenBSD 2.3</a>. Some of these problems
1.45 deraadt 946: still exist in other operating systems. (The supplied patches are for
947: OpenBSD 2.2; they may or may not work on OpenBSD 2.1).
1.9 deraadt 948:
1.96 deraadt 949: <p>
1.9 deraadt 950: <ul>
1.72 deraadt 951: <li><a href=errata22.html#ipsec>May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC
952: packets if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
953: <li><a href=errata22.html#xterm-xaw>May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm
954: and Xaw (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
955: <li><a href=errata22.html#uucpd>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer overflow in uucpd
956: (patch included).</a>
957: <li><a href=errata22.html#rmjob>Apr 22, 1998: Buffer mismanagement in lprm
958: (patch included).</a>
959: <li><a href=errata22.html#ping>Mar 31, 1998: Overflow in ping -R (patch included).</a>
960: <li><a href=errata22.html#named>Mar 30, 1998: Overflow in named fake-iquery
1.59 deraadt 961: (patch included).</a>
1.72 deraadt 962: <li><a href=errata22.html#mountd>Mar 2, 1998: Accidental NFS filesystem
963: export (patch included).</a>
1.112 philen 964: <li><a href="advisories/mmap.txt">Feb 26, 1998: Read-write mmap() flaw.</a>
1.72 deraadt 965: Revision 3 of the patch is available <a href=errata22.html#mmap>here</a>
1.112 philen 966: <li><a href="advisories/sourceroute.txt">Feb 19, 1998: Sourcerouted Packet
1.59 deraadt 967: Acceptance.</a>
1.50 deraadt 968: A patch is available <a href=errata22.html#sourceroute>here</a>.
1.122 rohee 969: <li><a href=errata22.html#ruserok>Feb 13, 1998: Setuid coredump & Ruserok()
1.72 deraadt 970: flaw (patch included).</a>
971: <li><a href=errata22.html#ldso>Feb 9, 1998: MIPS ld.so flaw (patch included).</a>
1.1 deraadt 972: </ul>
973:
1.106 deraadt 974: <p>
975: <li>
1.58 deraadt 976: <a name=21></a>
1.235 miod 977:
1.110 deraadt 978: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.52 deraadt 979: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories. All these problems are solved
980: in <a href=22.html>OpenBSD 2.2</a>. Some of these problems still
981: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.1, we
982: would strongly recommend an upgrade to the newest release, as this
983: patch list only attempts at fixing the most important security
984: problems. In particular, OpenBSD 2.2 fixes numerous localhost
985: security problems. Many of those problems were solved in ways which
986: make it hard for us to provide patches).
987:
1.96 deraadt 988: <p>
1.52 deraadt 989: <ul>
1.112 philen 990: <li><a href="advisories/signals.txt">Sep 15, 1997: Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
991: <li><a href="advisories/rfork.txt">Aug 2, 1997: Rfork() system call flaw
1.59 deraadt 992: (patch included)</a>
1.112 philen 993: <li><a href="advisories/procfs.txt">Jun 24, 1997: Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
1.52 deraadt 994: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 995:
1.106 deraadt 996: <p>
997: <li>
998: <a name=20></a>
1.235 miod 999:
1.110 deraadt 1000: <h3><font color=#e00000>OpenBSD 2.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.99 deraadt 1001: These are the OpenBSD 2.0 advisories. All these problems are solved
1002: in <a href=21.html>OpenBSD 2.1</a>. Some of these problems still
1003: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.0, we
1004: commend you for being there back in the old days!, but you're really
1005: missing out if you don't install a new version!)
1006:
1007: <p>
1008: <ul>
1.112 philen 1009: <li><a href="advisories/res_random.txt">April 22, 1997: Predictable IDs in the
1.99 deraadt 1010: resolver (patch included)</a>
1011: <li>Many others... if people can hunt them down, please let me know
1012: and we'll put them up here.
1013: </ul>
1014:
1.106 deraadt 1015: </dl>
1.51 deraadt 1016: <p>
1.106 deraadt 1017:
1018: <a name=watching></a>
1.110 deraadt 1019: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Watching our Changes</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 1020:
1.21 deraadt 1021: Since we take a proactive stance with security, we are continually
1022: finding and fixing new security problems. Not all of these problems
1.80 espie 1023: get widely reported because (as stated earlier) many of them are not
1.45 deraadt 1024: confirmed to be exploitable; many simple bugs we fix do turn out to
1025: have security consequences we could not predict. We do not have the
1026: time resources to make these changes available in the above format.<p>
1.21 deraadt 1027:
1028: Thus there are usually minor security fixes in the current source code
1029: beyond the previous major OpenBSD release. We make a limited
1.45 deraadt 1030: guarantee that these problems are of minimal impact and unproven
1.44 ian 1031: exploitability. If we discover that a problem definitely matters for
1.45 deraadt 1032: security, patches will show up here <strong>VERY</strong> quickly.<p>
1.21 deraadt 1033:
1.45 deraadt 1034: People who are really concerned with security can do a number of
1035: things:<p>
1.21 deraadt 1036:
1037: <ul>
1038: <li>If you understand security issues, watch our
1.27 deraadt 1039: <a href=mail.html>source-changes mailing list</a> and keep an
1.23 deraadt 1040: eye out for things which appear security related. Since
1.21 deraadt 1041: exploitability is not proven for many of the fixes we make,
1042: do not expect the relevant commit message to say "SECURITY FIX!".
1043: If a problem is proven and serious, a patch will be available
1044: here very shortly after.
1.161 horacio 1045: <li>In addition to source changes, you can watch our <a href="mail.html">
1.160 ericj 1046: security-announce mailing list</a> which will notify you for every
1.186 ian 1047: security related item that the OpenBSD team deems as a possible threat,
1.160 ericj 1048: and instruct you on how to patch the problem.
1.21 deraadt 1049: <li>Track our current source code tree, and teach yourself how to do a
1.29 deraadt 1050: complete system build from time to time (read /usr/src/Makefile
1051: carefully). Users can make the assumption that the current
1052: source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.
1.45 deraadt 1053: However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;
1054: it is nearly 300MB of source code, and problems do occur as we
1055: transition between major releases.
1.115 ericj 1056: <li>Install a binary snapshot for your
1.80 espie 1057: architecture, which are made available fairly often. For
1.29 deraadt 1058: instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.
1.21 deraadt 1059: </ul>
1060:
1.9 deraadt 1061: <p>
1.153 jufi 1062: <a name=reporting></a>
1.110 deraadt 1063: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Reporting problems</font></h3><p>
1.3 deraadt 1064:
1.5 deraadt 1065: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.6 deraadt 1066: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
1.7 deraadt 1067: <br>
1.5 deraadt 1068: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
1.112 philen 1069: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href="advisories/pgpkey.txt">pgp key</a>.
1.5 deraadt 1070:
1.107 deraadt 1071: <p>
1072: <a name=papers></a>
1.110 deraadt 1073: <li><h3><font color=#e00000>Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.107 deraadt 1074:
1075: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about security
1076: related changes they have done in OpenBSD. The postscript versions of these
1.108 deraadt 1077: documents are available as follows.<p>
1.107 deraadt 1078:
1079: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1080: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.118 deraadt 1081: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.153 jufi 1082: by <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>,
1.113 deraadt 1083: <a href=mailto:dm@openbsd.org>David Mazieres</a>.<br>
1.107 deraadt 1084: <a href=papers/bcrypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1085: <a href=papers/bcrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1086: <p>
1087: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.118 deraadt 1088: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113 deraadt 1089: by <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>,
1090: <a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org>Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
1091: <a href=mailto:art@openbsd.org>Artur Grabowski</a>,
1092: <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
1093: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.107 deraadt 1094: <a href=papers/crypt-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1095: <a href=papers/crypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1096: <p>
1097: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.118 deraadt 1098: <a href=events.html#usenix99>Usenix 1999</a>,
1.113 deraadt 1099: by <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd C. Miller</a>,
1100: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1.109 deraadt 1101: <a href=papers/strlcpy-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1102: <a href=papers/strlcpy-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1103: <p>
1.118 deraadt 1104: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1105: <a href=events.html#lisa99>LISA 1999</a>,
1106: by <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.<br>
1107: <a href=papers/authgw-paper.ps>paper</a> and
1108: <a href=papers/authgw-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1109: <p>
1.153 jufi 1110: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.142 deraadt 1111: <a href=events.html#sec2000>Usenix Security 2000</a>,
1112: <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1.143 provos 1113: <a href=papers/swapencrypt.ps>paper</a> and
1114: <a href=papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps>slides</a>.
1.142 deraadt 1115: <p>
1.107 deraadt 1116: </ul>
1117:
1.106 deraadt 1118: </dl>
1119:
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