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1.294 david 18: <h2><font color="#e00000">Security</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 20:
1.114 philen 21: <table width="100%">
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23: <td colspan="2">
24: <strong>Index</strong>
25: </td>
26: </tr>
27: <tr>
28: <td valign="top">
1.294 david 29: <a href="#goals">Security goals of the Project</a>.<br>
30: <a href="#disclosure">Full Disclosure policy</a>.<br>
31: <a href="#process">Source code auditing process</a>.<br>
32: <a href="#default">"Secure by Default"</a>.<br>
33: <a href="#crypto">Use of Cryptography</a>.<br>
34: <p>
35: <a href="#watching">Watching changes</a>.<br>
36: <a href="#reporting">Reporting security issues</a>.<br>
37: <a href="#papers">Further Reading</a><br>
1.106 deraadt 38: <p>
1.114 philen 39: </td>
40: <td valign="top">
1.225 deraadt 41: For security advisories for specific releases, click below:<br>
42: <a href="#20">2.0</a>,
43: <a href="#21">2.1</a>,
44: <a href="#22">2.2</a>,
45: <a href="#23">2.3</a>,
46: <a href="#24">2.4</a>,
47: <a href="#25">2.5</a>,
48: <a href="#26">2.6</a>,
49: <a href="#27">2.7</a>,
50: <a href="#28">2.8</a>,
51: <a href="#29">2.9</a>,
52: <a href="#30">3.0</a>,
53: <a href="#31">3.1</a>,
1.246 deraadt 54: <a href="#32">3.2</a>,
1.261 david 55: <a href="#33">3.3</a>,
1.280 david 56: <a href="#34">3.4</a>,
57: <a href="#35">3.5</a>.
1.114 philen 58: </td>
59: </tr>
60: </table>
1.56 deraadt 61: <hr>
62:
1.294 david 63: <a name="goals"></a>
1.278 deraadt 64: <ul>
1.294 david 65: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Goal</font></h3><p>
1.22 deraadt 66:
1.14 deraadt 67: OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER
1.22 deraadt 68: ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our
69: open software development model permits us to take a more
70: uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP,
71: or other vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would
1.27 deraadt 72: not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with <a href=crypto.html>
1.45 deraadt 73: cryptography</a>, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards
74: fixing security problems.<p>
1.18 deraadt 75:
1.288 matthieu 76: <a name="disclosure"></a>
1.294 david 77: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Full Disclosure</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 78:
1.45 deraadt 79: Like many readers of the
1.196 jufi 80: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">
1.18 deraadt 81: BUGTRAQ mailing list</a>,
1.106 deraadt 82: we believe in full disclosure of security problems. In the
83: operating system arena, we were probably the first to embrace
84: the concept. Many vendors, even of free software, still try
85: to hide issues from their users.<p>
86:
87: Security information moves very fast in cracker circles. On the other
88: hand, our experience is that coding and releasing of proper security
89: fixes typically requires about an hour of work -- very fast fix
90: turnaround is possible. Thus we think that full disclosure helps the
91: people who really care about security.<p>
92:
1.288 matthieu 93: <a name="process"></a>
1.294 david 94: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Audit Process</font></h3><p>
1.15 deraadt 95:
1.12 deraadt 96: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
1.45 deraadt 97: members who continue to search for and fix new security holes. We
98: have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to
99: increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of
1.106 deraadt 100: every critical software component. We are not so much looking for
101: security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if
1.138 deraadt 102: years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security
1.106 deraadt 103: issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the
104: better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system.
105: Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our
106: audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs
107: re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited
108: multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing
109: skills.<p>
1.12 deraadt 110:
1.94 deraadt 111: Some members of our security auditing team worked for Secure Networks,
112: the company that made the industry's premier network security scanning
113: software package Ballista (Secure Networks got purchased by Network
114: Associates, Ballista got renamed to Cybercop Scanner, and well...)
115: That company did a lot of security research, and thus fit in well
1.106 deraadt 116: with the OpenBSD stance. OpenBSD passed Ballista's tests with flying
117: colours since day 1.<p>
1.31 deraadt 118:
1.34 deraadt 119: Another facet of our security auditing process is its proactiveness.
1.45 deraadt 120: In most cases we have found that the determination of exploitability
121: is not an issue. During our ongoing auditing process we find many
122: bugs, and endeavor to fix them even though exploitability is not
123: proven. We fix the bug, and we move on to find other bugs to fix. We
124: have fixed many simple and obvious careless programming errors in code
125: and only months later discovered that the problems were in fact
126: exploitable. (Or, more likely someone on
1.197 jufi 127: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>
1.45 deraadt 128: would report that other operating systems were vulnerable to a `newly
129: discovered problem', and then it would be discovered that OpenBSD had
130: been fixed in a previous release). In other cases we have been saved
131: from full exploitability of complex step-by-step attacks because we
132: had fixed one of the intermediate steps. An example of where we
1.94 deraadt 133: managed such a success is the lpd advisory that Secure Networks put out.
134: <p>
1.29 deraadt 135:
1.288 matthieu 136: <a name="newtech"></a>
1.294 david 137: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">New Technologies</font></h3><p>
1.278 deraadt 138:
139: As we audit source code, we often invent new ways of solving problems.
140: Sometimes these ideas have been used before in some random application
141: written somewhere, but perhaps not taken to the degree that we do.
142: <p>
143:
144: <ul>
145: <li>strlcpy() and strlcat()
146: <li>Memory protection purify
147: <ul>
148: <li>W^X
149: <li>.rodata segment
150: <li>Guard pages
151: <li>Randomized malloc()
152: <li>Randomized mmap()
153: <li>atexit() and stdio protection
154: </ul>
1.295 otto 155: <li>Privilege separation
1.278 deraadt 156: <li>Privilege revocation
157: <li>Chroot jailing
158: <li>New uids
159: <li>ProPolice
160: <li>... and others
161: </ul>
162: <p>
163:
1.294 david 164: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">The Reward</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 165:
1.45 deraadt 166: Our proactive auditing process has really paid off. Statements like
1.35 deraadt 167: ``This problem was fixed in OpenBSD about 6 months ago'' have become
1.45 deraadt 168: commonplace in security forums like
1.197 jufi 169: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>.<p>
1.35 deraadt 170:
1.45 deraadt 171: The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately
1.80 espie 172: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0->2.1 transition,
1.45 deraadt 173: over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997. Thousands (yes,
174: thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long
175: period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol
176: implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem
177: races. Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were
178: fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed
179: fixing for our 2.2 release. We do not find as many problems anymore,
180: it is simply a case of diminishing returns. Recently the security
181: problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or
182: complicated. Still we will persist for a number of reasons:<p>
1.36 deraadt 183:
1.35 deraadt 184: <ul>
1.45 deraadt 185: <li>Occasionally we find a simple problem we missed earlier. Doh!
1.35 deraadt 186: <li>Security is like an arms race; the best attackers will continue
1.45 deraadt 187: to search for more complicated exploits, so we will too.
188: <li>Finding and fixing subtle flaws in complicated software is
189: a lot of fun.
1.35 deraadt 190: </ul>
1.106 deraadt 191: <p>
1.15 deraadt 192:
1.14 deraadt 193: The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue
1.28 deraadt 194: to find and fix new security flaws.<p>
1.12 deraadt 195:
1.288 matthieu 196: <a name="default"></a>
1.294 david 197: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">"Secure by Default"</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 198:
199: To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security
200: experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we
201: ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode. All non-essential
202: services are disabled. As the user/administrator becomes more familiar
203: with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other
204: parts of the system. During the process of learning how to enable a new
205: service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.<p>
206:
207: This is in stark contrast to the increasing number of systems that
208: ship with NFS, mountd, web servers, and various other services enabled
209: by default, creating instantaneous security problems for their users
210: within minutes after their first install.<p>
211:
1.288 matthieu 212: <a name="crypto"></a>
1.294 david 213: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Cryptography</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 214:
215: And of course, since the OpenBSD project is based in Canada, it is possible
216: for us to integrate cryptography. For more information, read the page
1.116 deraadt 217: outlining <a href=crypto.html>what we have done with cryptography</a>.</p>
1.106 deraadt 218:
1.294 david 219: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Advisories</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 220:
221: <li>
1.288 matthieu 222: <a name="35"></a>
1.279 deraadt 223:
1.294 david 224: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.279 deraadt 225: These are the OpenBSD 3.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
226: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
227: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
228:
229: <p>
230: <ul>
1.298 ! brad 231: <li><a href="errata.html#xpm">Sep 16, 2004:
! 232: The Xpm library has vulnerabilities when parsing malicious images.</a>
1.297 brad 233: <li><a href="errata.html#httpd2"> Sep 10, 2004:
234: httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite module can be made to write one zero byte in
235: an arbitrary memory position outside of a char array, causing a DoS
236: or possibly buffer overflows.</a>
1.294 david 237: <li><a href="errata.html#httpd"> Jun 12, 2004:
1.293 brad 238: Multiple vulnerabilites have been found in httpd(8) / mod_ssl.</a>
1.294 david 239: <li><a href="errata.html#isakmpd"> Jun 10, 2004:
1.291 hshoexer 240: isakmpd(8) still has issues with unauthorized SA deletion,
1.293 brad 241: an attacker can delete IPsec tunnels at will.</a>
1.294 david 242: <li><a href="errata.html#cvs3"> Jun 9, 2004:
1.290 millert 243: Multiple remote vulnerabilities have been found in the cvs(1)
244: server which can be used by CVS clients to crash or execute
1.293 brad 245: arbitrary code on the server.</a>
1.294 david 246: <li><a href="errata.html#kerberos"> May 30, 2004:
1.289 beck 247: kdc(8) performs inadequate checking of request fields, leading
248: to the possibility of principal impersonation from other
249: Kerberos realms if they are trusted with a cross-realm trust.</a>
1.294 david 250: <li><a href="errata.html#xdm"> May 26, 2004:
1.287 matthieu 251: xdm(1) ignores the requestPort resource and creates a
1.293 brad 252: listening socket regardless of the setting in xdm-config.</a>
1.294 david 253: <li><a href="errata.html#cvs2"> May 20, 2004:
1.286 otto 254: A buffer overflow in the cvs(1) server has been found,
255: which can be used by CVS clients to execute arbitrary code on
1.293 brad 256: the server.</a>
1.294 david 257: <li><a href="errata.html#procfs"> May 13, 2004:
1.282 tedu 258: Integer overflow problems were found in procfs, allowing
1.293 brad 259: reading of arbitrary kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 260: <li><a href="errata.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281 otto 261: Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
262: allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
1.293 brad 263: repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.279 deraadt 264: </ul>
265:
266: <p>
267: <li>
1.288 matthieu 268: <a name="34"></a>
1.261 david 269:
1.294 david 270: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.261 david 271: These are the OpenBSD 3.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 272: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a> and the
273: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>.
1.261 david 274:
275: <p>
276: <ul>
1.298 ! brad 277: <li><a href="errata34.html#xpm">Sep 16, 2004:
! 278: The Xpm library has vulnerabilities when parsing malicious images.</a>
1.297 brad 279: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd4"> Sep 10, 2004:
280: httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite module can be made to write one zero byte in
281: an arbitrary memory position outside of a char array, causing a DoS
282: or possibly buffer overflows.</a>
1.294 david 283: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd3"> Jun 12, 2004:
1.293 brad 284: Multiple vulnerabilites have been found in httpd(8) / mod_ssl.</a>
1.294 david 285: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd3"> Jun 10, 2004:
1.292 brad 286: isakmpd(8) still has issues with unauthorized SA deletion,
1.293 brad 287: an attacker can delete IPsec tunnels at will.</a>
1.294 david 288: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs3"> Jun 9, 2004:
1.290 millert 289: Multiple remote vulnerabilities have been found in the cvs(1)
290: server which can be used by CVS clients to crash or execute
1.293 brad 291: arbitrary code on the server.</a>
1.294 david 292: <li><a href="errata34.html#kerberos"> May 30, 2004:
1.289 beck 293: kdc(8) performs inadequate checking of request fields, leading
294: to the possibility of principal impersonation from other
295: Kerberos realms if they are trusted with a cross-realm trust.</a>
1.294 david 296: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs2"> May 20, 2004:
1.286 otto 297: A buffer overflow in the cvs(1) server has been found,
298: which can be used by CVS clients to execute arbitrary code on
299: the server.</a>
1.294 david 300: <li><a href="errata34.html#procfs"> May 13, 2004:
1.282 tedu 301: Integer overflow problems were found in procfs, allowing
302: reading of arbitrary kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 303: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281 otto 304: Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
305: allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
306: repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.294 david 307: <li><a href="errata34.html#openssl"> March 17, 2004:
1.277 millert 308: A missing check for a NULL-pointer dereference may allow a
1.281 otto 309: remote attacker to crash applications using OpenSSL.</a>
1.294 david 310: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd2"> March 17, 2004:
1.276 brad 311: Defects in the payload validation and processing functions of
312: isakmpd have been discovered. An attacker could send malformed
313: ISAKMP messages and cause isakmpd to crash or to loop endlessly.</a>
1.294 david 314: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd2"> March 13, 2004:
1.275 brad 315: Due to a bug in the parsing of Allow/Deny rules for httpd(8)'s
316: access module, using IP addresses without a netmask on big endian
317: 64-bit platforms causes the rules to fail to match.</a>
1.294 david 318: <li><a href="errata34.html#ip6"> February 8, 2004:
1.272 dhartmei 319: An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists that could be used by an
320: attacker to cause a denial of service attack.</a>
1.294 david 321: <li><a href="errata34.html#sysvshm"> February 5, 2004:
1.271 millert 322: A reference counting bug in shmat(2) could be used to write to
323: kernel memory under certain circumstances.</a>
1.294 david 324: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd">January 13, 2004:
1.266 brad 325: Several message handling flaws in isakmpd(8) have been reported
1.271 millert 326: by Thomas Walpuski.</a>
1.294 david 327: <li><a href="errata34.html#ibcs2">November 17, 2003:
1.264 henning 328: It may be possible for a local user to overrun the stack in
329: compat_ibcs2(8) and cause a kernel panic.</a>
1.294 david 330: <li><a href="errata34.html#asn1">November 1, 2003:
1.262 margarid 331: The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
332: allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
333: applications linked with ssl(3).</a>
1.261 david 334: </ul>
335:
336: <p>
1.284 otto 337: OpenBSD 3.3 and earlier releases are not supported anymore. The following
338: paragraphs only list advisories issued while they were maintained; these
339: releases are likely to be affected by the advisories for more recent releases.
340: <br>
341:
1.261 david 342: <li>
1.288 matthieu 343: <a name="33"></a>
1.246 deraadt 344:
1.294 david 345: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.246 deraadt 346: These are the OpenBSD 3.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 347: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
348: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.3 is no longer being maintained,
1.284 otto 349: you should update your machine.
1.246 deraadt 350: <p>
351: <ul>
1.294 david 352: <li><a href="errata33.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281 otto 353: Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
354: allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
355: repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.294 david 356: <li><a href="errata33.html#openssl"> March 17, 2004:
1.277 millert 357: A missing check for a NULL-pointer dereference may allow a
1.281 otto 358: remote attacker to crash applications using OpenSSL.</a>
1.294 david 359: <li><a href="errata33.html#isakmpd2"> March 17, 2004:
1.276 brad 360: Defects in the payload validation and processing functions of
361: isakmpd have been discovered. An attacker could send malformed
362: ISAKMP messages and cause isakmpd to crash or to loop endlessly.</a>
1.294 david 363: <li><a href="errata33.html#httpd2"> March 13, 2004:
1.275 brad 364: Due to a bug in the parsing of Allow/Deny rules for httpd(8)'s
365: access module, using IP addresses without a netmask on big endian
366: 64-bit platforms causes the rules to fail to match.</a>
1.294 david 367: <li><a href="errata33.html#ip6"> February 8, 2004:
1.275 brad 368: An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists that could be used by an
369: attacker to cause a denial of service attack.</a>
1.294 david 370: <li><a href="errata33.html#sysvshm"> February 5, 2004:
1.271 millert 371: A reference counting bug in shmat(2) could be used to write to
372: kernel memory under certain circumstances.</a>
1.294 david 373: <li><a href="errata33.html#isakmpd">January 15, 2004:
1.268 brad 374: Several message handling flaws in isakmpd(8) have been reported
1.271 millert 375: by Thomas Walpuski.</a>
1.294 david 376: <li><a href="errata33.html#ibcs2">November 17, 2003:
1.264 henning 377: It may be possible for a local user to execute arbitrary code
378: resulting in escalation of privileges due to a stack overrun
379: in compat_ibcs2(8).</a>
1.294 david 380: <li><a href="errata33.html#asn1">October 1, 2003:
1.257 millert 381: The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
382: allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
383: applications linked with ssl(3).</a>
1.294 david 384: <li><a href="errata33.html#pfnorm">September 24, 2003:
1.258 beck 385: Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260 margarid 386: remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.294 david 387: <li><a href="errata33.html#sendmail">September 17, 2003:
1.256 millert 388: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
389: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 390: <li><a href="errata33.html#sshbuffer">September 16, 2003:
1.255 millert 391: OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
392: that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 393: <li><a href="errata33.html#sysvsem">September 10, 2003:
1.254 millert 394: Root may be able to reduce the security level by taking advantage of
395: an integer overflow when the semaphore limits are made very large.</a>
1.294 david 396: <li><a href="errata33.html#semget">August 20, 2003:
1.252 millert 397: An improper bounds check in the kernel may allow a local user
398: to panic the kernel.</a>
1.294 david 399: <li><a href="errata33.html#realpath">August 4, 2003:
1.249 millert 400: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
401: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.246 deraadt 402: </ul>
403:
1.265 miod 404:
1.247 david 405: <p>
1.246 deraadt 406: <li>
1.288 matthieu 407: <a name="32"></a>
1.224 deraadt 408:
1.294 david 409: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.224 deraadt 410: These are the OpenBSD 3.2 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 411: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
412: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.2 is no longer being maintained,
1.265 miod 413: you should update your machine.
1.224 deraadt 414: <p>
415: <ul>
1.294 david 416: <li><a href="errata32.html#asn1">October 1, 2003:
1.257 millert 417: The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
418: allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
419: applications linked with ssl(3). This does not affect OpenSSH.</a>
1.294 david 420: <li><a href="errata32.html#pfnorm">September 24, 2003:
1.258 beck 421: Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260 margarid 422: remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.294 david 423: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail4">September 17, 2003:
1.256 millert 424: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
425: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 426: <li><a href="errata32.html#sshbuffer">September 16, 2003:
1.255 millert 427: OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
428: that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 429: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail3">August 25, 2003:
1.253 brad 430: Fix for a potential security issue in
431: sendmail(8) with respect to DNS maps.</a>
1.294 david 432: <li><a href="errata32.html#realpath">August 4, 2003:
1.249 millert 433: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
434: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.294 david 435: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail2">March 31, 2003:
1.244 miod 436: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
437: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 438: <li><a href="errata32.html#kerberos">March 24, 2003:
1.242 millert 439: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
440: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.294 david 441: <li><a href="errata32.html#kpr">March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 442: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 443: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.294 david 444: <li><a href="errata32.html#blinding">March 18, 2003:
1.239 miod 445: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
446: timing attacks.</a>
1.294 david 447: <li><a href="errata32.html#lprm">March 5, 2003:
1.238 millert 448: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to elevate
449: privileges to user daemon.</a>.
1.294 david 450: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail">March 3, 2003:
1.237 miod 451: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
452: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 453: <li><a href="errata32.html#httpd">February 25, 2003:
1.236 margarid 454: httpd(8) leaks file inode numbers via ETag header as well as
455: child PIDs in multipart MIME boundary generation. This could
456: lead, for example, to NFS exploitation because it uses inode
457: numbers as part of the file handle.</a>
1.294 david 458: <li><a href="errata32.html#ssl">February 22, 2003:
1.234 margarid 459: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
460: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
461: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
462: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.294 david 463: <li><a href="errata32.html#cvs">January 20, 2003:
1.232 millert 464: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
465: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.233 margarid 466: run as a privileged user.</a>
1.294 david 467: <li><a href="errata32.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 468: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
469: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294 david 470: <li><a href="errata32.html#pool">November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 471: A logic error in the pool kernel memory allocator could cause
472: memory corruption in low-memory situations, causing the system
473: to crash.</a>
1.294 david 474: <li><a href="errata32.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 475: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
476: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294 david 477: <li><a href="errata32.html#pfbridge">November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 478: Network bridges running pf with scrubbing enabled could cause
479: mbuf corruption, causing the system to crash.</a>
1.294 david 480: <li><a href="errata32.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.228 miod 481: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
482: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 483: </ul>
484:
1.227 miod 485: <p>
486: <li>
1.288 matthieu 487: <a name="31"></a>
1.203 deraadt 488:
1.294 david 489: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.203 deraadt 490: These are the OpenBSD 3.1 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 491: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
492: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.1 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 493: you should update your machine.
1.203 deraadt 494:
495: <p>
496: <ul>
1.294 david 497: <li><a href="errata31.html#sendmail2">March 31, 2003:
1.244 miod 498: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
499: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 500: <li><a href="errata31.html#kerberos">March 24, 2003:
1.242 millert 501: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
502: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.294 david 503: <li><a href="errata31.html#kpr">March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 504: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 505: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.294 david 506: <li><a href="errata31.html#blinding">March 18, 2003:
1.239 miod 507: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
508: timing attacks.</a>
1.294 david 509: <li><a href="errata31.html#lprm">March 4, 2003:
1.238 millert 510: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to gain
511: root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 512: <li><a href="errata31.html#sendmail">March 3, 2003:
1.237 miod 513: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
514: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 515: <li><a href="errata31.html#ssl2">February 23, 2003:
1.235 miod 516: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
517: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
518: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
519: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.294 david 520: <li><a href="errata31.html#cvs">January 20, 2003:
1.232 millert 521: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
522: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.294 david 523: run as a privileged user</a>.
524: <li><a href="errata31.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 525: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
526: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294 david 527: <li><a href="errata31.html#kernresource">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 528: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
529: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
1.294 david 530: <li><a href="errata31.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 531: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
532: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294 david 533: <li><a href="errata31.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.226 miod 534: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
535: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 536: <li><a href="errata31.html#kerntime">October 2, 2002:
1.222 jason 537: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
538: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 539: <li><a href="errata31.html#scarg">August 11, 2002:
1.221 provos 540: An insufficient boundary check in the select system call
1.220 miod 541: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
542: in kernel context.</a>
1.294 david 543: <li><a href="errata31.html#ssl">July 30, 2002:
1.218 miod 544: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
545: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
546: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
547: exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 548: <li><a href="errata31.html#xdr">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 549: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
550: possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 551: <li><a href="errata31.html#pppd">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 552: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
553: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.294 david 554: <li><a href="errata31.html#isakmpd">July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 555: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
556: crash.</a>
1.294 david 557: <li><a href="errata31.html#ktrace">June 27, 2002:
1.215 miod 558: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.294 david 559: <li><a href="errata31.html#modssl">June 26, 2002:
1.213 miod 560: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 561: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 562: <li><a href="errata31.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 563: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294 david 564: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshd">June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 565: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 566: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
567: privilege escalation.</a>
1.294 david 568: <li><a href="errata31.html#httpd">June 19, 2002:
1.211 miod 569: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
570: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 571: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshbsdauth">May 22, 2002:
1.209 markus 572: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups
573: in the password database, it is possible that sshd(8) does
574: ACL checks for the requested user name but uses the password
575: database entry of a different user for authentication. This
576: means that denied users might authenticate successfully
577: while permitted users could be locked out.</a>
1.294 david 578: <li><a href="errata31.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 579: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
580: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294 david 581: <li><a href="errata31.html#sudo">April 25, 2002:
1.205 millert 582: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294 david 583: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.205 millert 584: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
585: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
586: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
587: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 588: </ul>
589:
1.235 miod 590: <p>
1.203 deraadt 591: <li>
1.288 matthieu 592: <a name="30"></a>
1.187 deraadt 593:
1.294 david 594: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.187 deraadt 595: These are the OpenBSD 3.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 596: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
597: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.0 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 598: you should update your machine.
1.187 deraadt 599:
600: <p>
601: <ul>
1.294 david 602: <li><a href="errata30.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 603: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
604: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294 david 605: <li><a href="errata30.html#kernresource">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 606: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
607: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
1.294 david 608: <li><a href="errata30.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 609: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
610: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294 david 611: <li><a href="errata30.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.226 miod 612: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
613: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 614: <li><a href="errata30.html#kerntime">October 7, 2002:
1.223 miod 615: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
616: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 617: <li><a href="errata30.html#scarg">August 11, 2002:
1.220 miod 618: An insufficient boundary check in the select and poll system calls
619: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
620: in kernel context.</a>
1.294 david 621: <li><a href="errata30.html#ssl">July 30, 2002:
1.218 miod 622: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
623: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
624: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
625: exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 626: <li><a href="errata30.html#xdr">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 627: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
628: possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 629: <li><a href="errata30.html#pppd">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 630: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
631: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.294 david 632: <li><a href="errata30.html#isakmpd2">July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 633: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
634: crash.</a>
1.294 david 635: <li><a href="errata30.html#ktrace">June 27, 2002:
1.215 miod 636: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.294 david 637: <li><a href="errata30.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 638: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294 david 639: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshdauth">June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 640: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 641: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
642: privilege escalation.</a>
1.294 david 643: <li><a href="errata30.html#modssl">June 24, 2002:
1.213 miod 644: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 645: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 646: <li><a href="errata30.html#httpd">June 19, 2002:
1.213 miod 647: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
648: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 649: <li><a href="errata30.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 650: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
651: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294 david 652: <li><a href="errata30.html#sudo2">April 25, 2002:
1.205 millert 653: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294 david 654: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.205 millert 655: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
656: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
657: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
658: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.294 david 659: <li><a href="errata30.html#mail">April 11, 2002:
1.202 millert 660: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
661: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
662: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 663: <li><a href="errata30.html#approval">March 19, 2002:
1.201 millert 664: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in
665: the password database, it is possible for the rexecd(8) and rshd(8)
666: daemons to execute a shell from a password database entry for a
667: different user. Similarly, atrun(8) may change to the wrong
668: home directory when running jobs.</a>
1.294 david 669: <li><a href="errata30.html#zlib">March 13, 2002:
1.200 millert 670: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
671: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
672: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
673: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 674: <li><a href="errata30.html#openssh">March 8, 2002:
1.198 millert 675: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 676: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.294 david 677: <li><a href="errata30.html#ptrace">January 21, 2002:
1.192 jason 678: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
679: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
680: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.294 david 681: <li><a href="errata30.html#sudo">January 17, 2002:
1.191 millert 682: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
683: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
684: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 685: <li><a href="errata30.html#lpd">November 28, 2001:
1.189 millert 686: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
687: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
688: remote line printer access.</a>
1.294 david 689: <li><a href="errata30.html#vi.recover">November 13, 2001:
1.188 millert 690: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
691: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.294 david 692: <li><a href="errata30.html#pf">November 13, 2001:
1.190 mpech 693: pf(4) was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets,
694: resulting in a crash.</a>
1.294 david 695: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshd">November 12, 2001:
1.190 mpech 696: A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
697: if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.</a>
1.187 deraadt 698: </ul>
699:
700: <p>
701: <li>
1.288 matthieu 702: <a name="29"></a>
1.173 deraadt 703:
1.294 david 704: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.173 deraadt 705: These are the OpenBSD 2.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 706: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
707: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>. for 2.9 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 708: you should update your machine.
709:
1.173 deraadt 710:
711: <p>
712: <ul>
1.294 david 713: <li><a href="errata29.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 714: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294 david 715: <li><a href="errata29.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 716: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
717: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294 david 718: <li><a href="errata29.html#sudo2">April 25, 2002:
1.207 millert 719: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294 david 720: <li><a href="errata29.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.206 millert 721: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
722: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
723: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
724: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.294 david 725: <li><a href="errata29.html#mail">April 11, 2002:
1.202 millert 726: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
727: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
728: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 729: <li><a href="errata29.html#zlib">March 13, 2002:
1.200 millert 730: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
731: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
732: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
733: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 734: <li><a href="errata29.html#openssh">March 8, 2002:
1.198 millert 735: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 736: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.294 david 737: <li><a href="errata29.html#ptrace">January 21, 2002:
1.198 millert 738: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
739: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
740: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.294 david 741: <li><a href="errata29.html#sudo">January 17, 2002:
1.191 millert 742: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
743: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
744: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 745: <li><a href="errata29.html#lpd2">November 28, 2001:
1.189 millert 746: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
747: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
748: remote line printer access.</a>
1.294 david 749: <li><a href="errata29.html#vi.recover">November 13, 2001:
1.190 mpech 750: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
751: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.294 david 752: <li><a href="errata29.html#uucp">September 11, 2001:
1.184 millert 753: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
754: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 755: <li><a href="errata29.html#lpd">August 29, 2001:
1.183 millert 756: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
757: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.294 david 758: <li><a href="errata29.html#sendmail2">August 21, 2001:
1.181 millert 759: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
760: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 761: <li><a href="errata29.html#nfs">July 30, 2001:
1.180 jason 762: A kernel buffer overflow in the NFS code can be used to execute
763: arbitrary code by users with mount privileges (only root by
1.181 millert 764: default).</a>
1.294 david 765: <li><a href="errata29.html#kernexec">June 15, 2001:
1.178 aaron 766: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 767: <li><a href="errata29.html#sshcookie">June 12, 2001:
1.177 markus 768: sshd(8) allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies"
769: if X11 forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled
770: by default.</a>
1.294 david 771: <li><a href="errata29.html#fts">May 30, 2001:
1.176 millert 772: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
773: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.294 david 774: <li><a href="errata29.html#sendmail">May 29, 2001:
1.174 millert 775: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
776: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 777: </ul>
778:
779: <p>
780: <li>
1.288 matthieu 781: <a name="28"></a>
1.152 deraadt 782:
1.294 david 783: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.152 deraadt 784: These are the OpenBSD 2.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 785: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
786: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>. for 2.8 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 787: you should update your machine.
788:
1.152 deraadt 789:
790: <p>
791: <ul>
1.294 david 792: <li><a href="errata28.html#uucp">September 11, 2001:
1.184 millert 793: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
794: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 795: <li><a href="errata28.html#lpd">August 29, 2001:
1.183 millert 796: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
797: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.294 david 798: <li><a href="errata28.html#sendmail2">August 21, 2001:
1.181 millert 799: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
800: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 801: <li><a href="errata28.html#kernexec">June 15, 2001:
1.178 aaron 802: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 803: <li><a href="errata28.html#fts">May 30, 2001:
1.176 millert 804: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
805: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.294 david 806: <li><a href="errata28.html#sendmail">May 29, 2001:
1.175 millert 807: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
808: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.294 david 809: <li><a href="errata28.html#ipf_frag">Apr 23, 2001:
1.231 mickey 810: IPF contains a serious bug with its handling of fragment caching.</a>
1.294 david 811: <li><a href="errata28.html#glob_limit">Apr 23, 2001:
1.172 ericj 812: ftpd(8) contains a potential DoS relating to glob(3).</a>
1.294 david 813: <li><a href="errata28.html#glob">Apr 10, 2001:
1.170 ericj 814: The glob(3) library call contains multiple buffer overflows.</a>
1.294 david 815: <li><a href="errata28.html#readline">Mar 18, 2001:
1.169 millert 816: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.294 david 817: <li><a href="errata28.html#ipsec_ah">Mar 2, 2001:
1.167 ericj 818: Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun in the kernel.</a>
1.294 david 819: <li><a href="errata28.html#userldt">Mar 2, 2001:
1.168 horacio 820: The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 821: <li><a href="errata28.html#sudo">Feb 22, 2001:
1.171 millert 822: a non-exploitable buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.294 david 823: <li><a href="errata28.html#named">Jan 29, 2001:
1.163 jason 824: merge named(8) with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities.</a>
1.294 david 825: <li><a href="errata28.html#rnd">Jan 22, 2001:
1.162 jason 826: rnd(4) did not use all of its input when written to.</a>
1.294 david 827: <li><a href="errata28.html#xlock">Dec 22, 2000:
1.159 ericj 828: xlock(1)'s authentication was re-done to authenticate via a named pipe. (patch and new xlock binaries included).</a>
1.294 david 829: <li><a href="errata28.html#procfs">Dec 18, 2000:
1.157 ericj 830: Procfs contains numerous overflows. Procfs is not used by default in OpenBSD. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 831: <li><a href="errata28.html#kerberos2">Dec 10, 2000:
1.156 deraadt 832: Another problem exists in KerberosIV libraries (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 833: <li><a href="errata28.html#kerberos">Dec 7, 2000:
1.155 deraadt 834: A set of problems in KerberosIV exist (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 835: <li><a href="errata28.html#ftpd">Dec 4, 2000:
1.154 millert 836: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 837: </ul>
838:
839: <p>
840: <li>
1.288 matthieu 841: <a name="27"></a>
1.124 deraadt 842:
1.294 david 843: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.124 deraadt 844: These are the OpenBSD 2.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 845: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.124 deraadt 846: OpenBSD 2.6 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.7.
847:
848: <p>
849: <ul>
1.294 david 850: <li><a href="errata27.html#readline">Mar 18, 2001:
1.169 millert 851: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.294 david 852: <li><a href="errata27.html#sudo">Feb 22, 2001:
1.169 millert 853: a buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.294 david 854: <li><a href="errata27.html#ftpd">Dec 4, 2000:
1.154 millert 855: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 856: <li><a href="errata27.html#sshforwarding">Nov 10, 2000:
1.152 deraadt 857: Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding.
858: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 859: <li><a href="errata27.html#xtrans">Oct 26, 2000:
1.151 matthieu 860: X11 libraries have 2 potential overflows in xtrans code.
861: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 862: <li><a href="errata27.html#httpd">Oct 18, 2000:
1.150 beck 863: Apache mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias modules could expose files
864: on the server in certain configurations if used.
865: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 866: <li><a href="errata27.html#telnetd">Oct 10, 2000:
1.149 millert 867: The telnet daemon does not strip out the TERMINFO, TERMINFO_DIRS,
868: TERMPATH and TERMCAP environment variables as it should.
869: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 870: <li><a href="errata27.html#format_strings">Oct 6, 2000:
1.148 millert 871: There are printf-style format string bugs in several privileged
872: programs. (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 873: <li><a href="errata27.html#curses">Oct 6, 2000:
1.147 millert 874: libcurses honored terminal descriptions in the $HOME/.terminfo
875: directory as well as in the TERMCAP environment variable for
876: setuid and setgid applications.
1.146 deraadt 877: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 878: <li><a href="errata27.html#talkd">Oct 6, 2000:
1.146 deraadt 879: A format string vulnerability exists in talkd(8).
880: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 881: <li><a href="errata27.html#pw_error">Oct 3, 2000:
1.145 aaron 882: A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error() function of the
883: libutil library, yielding localhost root through chpass(1).
884: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 885: <li><a href="errata27.html#ipsec">Sep 18, 2000:
1.144 jason 886: Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions.
887: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 888: <li><a href="errata27.html#xlock">Aug 16, 2000:
1.141 deraadt 889: A format string vulnerability (localhost root) exists in xlock(1).
890: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 891: <li><a href="errata27.html#X11_libs">July 14, 2000:
1.139 deraadt 892: Various bugs found in X11 libraries have various side effects, almost
893: completely denial of service in OpenBSD.
894: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 895: <li><a href="errata27.html#ftpd">July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 896: Just like pretty much all the other unix ftp daemons
897: on the planet, ftpd had a remote root hole in it.
898: Luckily, ftpd was not enabled by default.
1.137 deraadt 899: The problem exists if anonymous ftp is enabled.
1.136 deraadt 900: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 901: <li><a href="errata27.html#mopd">July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 902: Mopd, very rarely used, contained some buffer overflows.
903: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 904: <li><a href="errata27.html#libedit">June 28, 2000:
1.135 deraadt 905: libedit would check for a <b>.editrc</b> file in the current
906: directory. Not known to be a real security issue, but a patch
907: is available anyways.
908: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 909: <li><a href="errata27.html#dhclient">June 24, 2000:
1.134 deraadt 910: A serious bug in dhclient(8) could allow strings from a
911: malicious dhcp server to be executed in the shell as root.
912: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 913: <li><a href="errata27.html#isakmpd">June 9, 2000:
1.133 deraadt 914: A serious bug in isakmpd(8) policy handling wherein
915: policy verification could be completely bypassed in isakmpd.
916: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 917: <li><a href="errata27.html#uselogin">June 6, 2000:
1.132 deraadt 918: The non-default flag UseLogin in <b>/etc/sshd_config</b> is broken,
919: should not be used, and results in security problems on
920: other operating systems.</a>
1.294 david 921: <li><a href="errata27.html#bridge">May 26, 2000:
1.129 deraadt 922: The bridge(4) <i>learning</i> flag may be bypassed.
1.128 deraadt 923: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 924: <li><a href="errata27.html#ipf">May 25, 2000:
1.127 kjell 925: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
926: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
927:
1.124 deraadt 928: </ul>
929:
930: <p>
931: <li>
1.288 matthieu 932: <a name="26"></a>
1.119 deraadt 933:
1.294 david 934: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.119 deraadt 935: These are the OpenBSD 2.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 936: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.119 deraadt 937: OpenBSD 2.5 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.6.
938:
939: <p>
940: <ul>
1.294 david 941: <li><a href="errata26.html#semconfig">May 26, 2000:
1.130 deraadt 942: SYSV semaphore support contained an undocumented system call
1.131 deraadt 943: which could wedge semaphore-using processes from exiting. (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 944: <li><a href="errata26.html#ipf">May 25, 2000:
1.127 kjell 945: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
946: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 947: <li><a href="errata26.html#xlockmore">May 25, 2000:
1.125 deraadt 948: xlockmore has a bug which a localhost attacker can use to gain
949: access to the encrypted root password hash (which is normally
1.245 miod 950: encoded using blowfish</a> (see
1.294 david 951: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3">
1.125 deraadt 952: crypt(3)</a>)
1.245 miod 953: (patch included).
1.294 david 954: <li><a href="errata26.html#procfs">Jan 20, 2000:
1.123 deraadt 955: Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are
956: vulnerable to a very tricky exploit. procfs is not
957: mounted by default.
958: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 959: <li><a href="errata26.html#sendmail">Dec 4, 1999:
1.296 david 960: Sendmail permitted any user to cause an aliases file wrap,
1.190 mpech 961: thus exposing the system to a race where the aliases file
962: did not exist.
1.119 deraadt 963: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 964: <li><a href="errata26.html#poll">Dec 4, 1999:
1.190 mpech 965: Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.</a>
1.294 david 966: <li><a href="errata26.html#sslUSA">Dec 2, 1999:
1.120 deraadt 967: A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
968: USA version of libssl, is possibly exploitable in
969: httpd, ssh, or isakmpd, if SSL/RSA features are enabled.
1.124 deraadt 970: (patch included).<br></a>
971: <strong>Update:</strong> Turns out that this was not exploitable
972: in any of the software included in OpenBSD 2.6.
1.294 david 973: <li><a href="errata26.html#ifmedia">Nov 9, 1999:
1.190 mpech 974: Any user could change interface media configurations, resulting in
975: a localhost denial of service attack.
1.121 deraadt 976: (patch included).</a>
1.119 deraadt 977: </ul>
978:
979: <p>
980: <li>
1.288 matthieu 981: <a name="25"></a>
1.106 deraadt 982:
1.294 david 983: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 984: These are the OpenBSD 2.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 985: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.93 deraadt 986: OpenBSD 2.4 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.5.
987:
1.96 deraadt 988: <p>
1.104 deraadt 989: <ul>
1.294 david 990: <li><a href="errata25.html#cron">Aug 30, 1999:
1.103 deraadt 991: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the
992: fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.
993: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 994: <li><a href="errata25.html#miscfs">Aug 12, 1999: The procfs and fdescfs
1.101 deraadt 995: filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset
996: in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
997: enabled by default). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 998: <li><a href="errata25.html#profil">Aug 9, 1999: Stop profiling (see profil(2))
1.100 deraadt 999: when we execve() a new process. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1000: <li><a href="errata25.html#ipsec_in_use">Aug 6, 1999: Packets that should have
1.98 deraadt 1001: been handled by IPsec may be transmitted as cleartext.
1002: PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1003: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1004: <li><a href="errata25.html#rc">Aug 5, 1999: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for
1.97 deraadt 1005: motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir
1006: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1007: <li><a href="errata25.html#chflags">Jul 30, 1999: Do not permit regular
1.95 deraadt 1008: users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or block devices
1009: which they may currently be the owner of (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1010: <li><a href="errata25.html#nroff">Jul 27, 1999: Cause groff(1) to be invoked
1.95 deraadt 1011: with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1) (patch included).</a>
1.93 deraadt 1012: </ul>
1013:
1.106 deraadt 1014: <p>
1015: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1016: <a name="24"></a>
1.235 miod 1017:
1.294 david 1018: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.75 deraadt 1019: These are the OpenBSD 2.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 1020: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.75 deraadt 1021: OpenBSD 2.3 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.4.
1022:
1.96 deraadt 1023: <p>
1.75 deraadt 1024: <ul>
1.294 david 1025: <li><a href="errata24.html#poll">Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs
1.91 deraadt 1026: to be constrained, to avoid kvm starvation (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1027: <li><a href="errata24.html#tss">Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops
1.91 deraadt 1028: another kernel crash case caused by the <strong>crashme</strong>
1029: program (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1030: <li><a href="errata24.html#nlink">Feb 25, 1999: An unbounded increment on the
1.90 deraadt 1031: nlink value in FFS and EXT2FS filesystems can cause a system crash.
1.89 deraadt 1032: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1033: <li><a href="errata24.html#ping">Feb 23, 1999: Yet another buffer overflow
1.88 deraadt 1034: existed in ping(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1035: <li><a href="errata24.html#ipqrace">Feb 19, 1999: ipintr() had a race in use of
1.87 deraadt 1036: the ipq, which could permit an attacker to cause a crash.
1037: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1038: <li><a href="errata24.html#accept">Feb 17, 1999: A race condition in the
1.86 deraadt 1039: kernel between accept(2) and select(2) could permit an attacker
1040: to hang sockets from remote.
1041: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1042: <li><a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">Feb 17, 1999: IP fragment assembly can
1.85 deraadt 1043: bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1044: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1045: <li><a href="errata24.html#trctrap">Feb 12, 1999: i386 T_TRCTRAP handling and
1.84 deraadt 1046: DDB interacted to possibly cause a crash.
1047: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1048: <li><a href="errata24.html#rst">Feb 11, 1999: TCP/IP RST handling was sloppy.
1.83 deraadt 1049: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1050: <li><a href="errata24.html#bootpd">Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81 deraadt 1051: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1052: <li><a href="errata24.html#termcap">Nov 19, 1998: There is a possibly locally
1.82 deraadt 1053: exploitable problem relating to environment variables in termcap
1054: and curses. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1055: <li><a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78 deraadt 1056: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.75 deraadt 1057: </ul>
1058:
1.106 deraadt 1059: <p>
1060: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1061: <a name="23"></a>
1.235 miod 1062:
1.294 david 1063: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.73 deraadt 1064: These are the OpenBSD 2.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 1065: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.73 deraadt 1066: OpenBSD 2.2 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.3.
1.53 matthieu 1067:
1.96 deraadt 1068: <p>
1.53 matthieu 1069: <ul>
1.294 david 1070: <li><a href="errata23.html#bootpd">Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81 deraadt 1071: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1072: <li><a href="errata23.html#tcpfix">Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78 deraadt 1073: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1074: <li><a href="errata23.html#resolver">August 31, 1998: A benign looking resolver
1.190 mpech 1075: buffer overflow bug was re-introduced accidentally (patches included).</a>
1.294 david 1076: <li><a href="errata23.html#chpass">Aug 2, 1998:
1.190 mpech 1077: chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
1078: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.</a>
1.294 david 1079: <li><a href="errata23.html#inetd">July 15, 1998: Inetd had a file descriptor leak.</a>
1080: <li><a href="errata23.html#fdalloc">Jul 2, 1998: setuid and setgid processes
1.72 deraadt 1081: should not be executed with fd slots 0, 1, or 2 free.
1082: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1083: <li><a href="errata23.html#xlib">June 6, 1998: Further problems with the X
1.71 deraadt 1084: libraries (patches included).</a>
1.294 david 1085: <li><a href="errata23.html#kill">May 17, 1998: kill(2) of setuid/setgid target
1.66 deraadt 1086: processes too permissive (4th revision patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1087: <li><a href="errata23.html#immutable">May 11, 1998: mmap() permits partial bypassing
1.60 deraadt 1088: of immutable and append-only file flags. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1089: <li><a href="errata23.html#ipsec">May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC packets
1.190 mpech 1090: if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1091: <li><a href="errata23.html#xterm-xaw">May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm and Xaw
1.58 deraadt 1092: (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.53 matthieu 1093: </ul>
1.9 deraadt 1094:
1.106 deraadt 1095: <p>
1096: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1097: <a name="22"></a>
1.235 miod 1098:
1.294 david 1099: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.45 deraadt 1100: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.294 david 1101: in <a href="23.html">OpenBSD 2.3</a>. Some of these problems
1.45 deraadt 1102: still exist in other operating systems. (The supplied patches are for
1103: OpenBSD 2.2; they may or may not work on OpenBSD 2.1).
1.9 deraadt 1104:
1.96 deraadt 1105: <p>
1.9 deraadt 1106: <ul>
1.294 david 1107: <li><a href="errata22.html#ipsec">May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC
1.72 deraadt 1108: packets if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1109: <li><a href="errata22.html#xterm-xaw">May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm
1.72 deraadt 1110: and Xaw (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1111: <li><a href="errata22.html#uucpd">Apr 22, 1998: Buffer overflow in uucpd
1.72 deraadt 1112: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1113: <li><a href="errata22.html#rmjob">Apr 22, 1998: Buffer mismanagement in lprm
1.72 deraadt 1114: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1115: <li><a href="errata22.html#ping">Mar 31, 1998: Overflow in ping -R (patch included).</a>
1116: <li><a href="errata22.html#named">Mar 30, 1998: Overflow in named fake-iquery
1.59 deraadt 1117: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1118: <li><a href="errata22.html#mountd">Mar 2, 1998: Accidental NFS filesystem
1.72 deraadt 1119: export (patch included).</a>
1.112 philen 1120: <li><a href="advisories/mmap.txt">Feb 26, 1998: Read-write mmap() flaw.</a>
1.294 david 1121: Revision 3 of the patch is available <a href="errata22.html#mmap">here</a>
1.112 philen 1122: <li><a href="advisories/sourceroute.txt">Feb 19, 1998: Sourcerouted Packet
1.59 deraadt 1123: Acceptance.</a>
1.294 david 1124: A patch is available <a href="errata22.html#sourceroute">here</a>.
1125: <li><a href="errata22.html#ruserok">Feb 13, 1998: Setuid coredump & Ruserok()
1.72 deraadt 1126: flaw (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1127: <li><a href="errata22.html#ldso">Feb 9, 1998: MIPS ld.so flaw (patch included).</a>
1.1 deraadt 1128: </ul>
1129:
1.106 deraadt 1130: <p>
1131: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1132: <a name="21"></a>
1.235 miod 1133:
1.294 david 1134: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.52 deraadt 1135: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.294 david 1136: in <a href="22.html">OpenBSD 2.2</a>. Some of these problems still
1.52 deraadt 1137: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.1, we
1138: would strongly recommend an upgrade to the newest release, as this
1139: patch list only attempts at fixing the most important security
1140: problems. In particular, OpenBSD 2.2 fixes numerous localhost
1141: security problems. Many of those problems were solved in ways which
1142: make it hard for us to provide patches).
1143:
1.96 deraadt 1144: <p>
1.52 deraadt 1145: <ul>
1.112 philen 1146: <li><a href="advisories/signals.txt">Sep 15, 1997: Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
1147: <li><a href="advisories/rfork.txt">Aug 2, 1997: Rfork() system call flaw
1.59 deraadt 1148: (patch included)</a>
1.112 philen 1149: <li><a href="advisories/procfs.txt">Jun 24, 1997: Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
1.52 deraadt 1150: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 1151:
1.106 deraadt 1152: <p>
1153: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1154: <a name="20"></a>
1.235 miod 1155:
1.294 david 1156: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.99 deraadt 1157: These are the OpenBSD 2.0 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.294 david 1158: in <a href="21.html">OpenBSD 2.1</a>. Some of these problems still
1.99 deraadt 1159: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.0, we
1160: commend you for being there back in the old days!, but you're really
1161: missing out if you don't install a new version!)
1162:
1163: <p>
1164: <ul>
1.112 philen 1165: <li><a href="advisories/res_random.txt">April 22, 1997: Predictable IDs in the
1.99 deraadt 1166: resolver (patch included)</a>
1167: <li>Many others... if people can hunt them down, please let me know
1168: and we'll put them up here.
1169: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 1170: <p>
1.106 deraadt 1171:
1.288 matthieu 1172: <a name="watching"></a>
1.294 david 1173: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Watching our Changes</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 1174:
1.21 deraadt 1175: Since we take a proactive stance with security, we are continually
1176: finding and fixing new security problems. Not all of these problems
1.80 espie 1177: get widely reported because (as stated earlier) many of them are not
1.45 deraadt 1178: confirmed to be exploitable; many simple bugs we fix do turn out to
1179: have security consequences we could not predict. We do not have the
1180: time resources to make these changes available in the above format.<p>
1.21 deraadt 1181:
1182: Thus there are usually minor security fixes in the current source code
1183: beyond the previous major OpenBSD release. We make a limited
1.45 deraadt 1184: guarantee that these problems are of minimal impact and unproven
1.44 ian 1185: exploitability. If we discover that a problem definitely matters for
1.45 deraadt 1186: security, patches will show up here <strong>VERY</strong> quickly.<p>
1.21 deraadt 1187:
1.45 deraadt 1188: People who are really concerned with security can do a number of
1189: things:<p>
1.21 deraadt 1190:
1191: <ul>
1192: <li>If you understand security issues, watch our
1.294 david 1193: <a href="mail.html">source-changes mailing list</a> and keep an
1.23 deraadt 1194: eye out for things which appear security related. Since
1.21 deraadt 1195: exploitability is not proven for many of the fixes we make,
1196: do not expect the relevant commit message to say "SECURITY FIX!".
1197: If a problem is proven and serious, a patch will be available
1198: here very shortly after.
1.161 horacio 1199: <li>In addition to source changes, you can watch our <a href="mail.html">
1.160 ericj 1200: security-announce mailing list</a> which will notify you for every
1.186 ian 1201: security related item that the OpenBSD team deems as a possible threat,
1.160 ericj 1202: and instruct you on how to patch the problem.
1.21 deraadt 1203: <li>Track our current source code tree, and teach yourself how to do a
1.29 deraadt 1204: complete system build from time to time (read /usr/src/Makefile
1205: carefully). Users can make the assumption that the current
1206: source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.
1.45 deraadt 1207: However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;
1.265 miod 1208: it is nearly 600MB of source code, and problems do occur as we
1.45 deraadt 1209: transition between major releases.
1.115 ericj 1210: <li>Install a binary snapshot for your
1.80 espie 1211: architecture, which are made available fairly often. For
1.29 deraadt 1212: instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.
1.21 deraadt 1213: </ul>
1214:
1.9 deraadt 1215: <p>
1.288 matthieu 1216: <a name="reporting"></a>
1.294 david 1217: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Reporting problems</font></h3><p>
1.3 deraadt 1218:
1.5 deraadt 1219: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.294 david 1220: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
1.7 deraadt 1221: <br>
1.5 deraadt 1222: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
1.112 philen 1223: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href="advisories/pgpkey.txt">pgp key</a>.
1.5 deraadt 1224:
1.107 deraadt 1225: <p>
1.288 matthieu 1226: <a name="papers"></a>
1.294 david 1227: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.107 deraadt 1228:
1229: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about security
1230: related changes they have done in OpenBSD. The postscript versions of these
1.108 deraadt 1231: documents are available as follows.<p>
1.107 deraadt 1232:
1233: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1234: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.294 david 1235: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1236: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>,
1237: <a href="mailto:dm@openbsd.org">David Mazieres</a>.<br>
1238: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1239: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1240: <p>
1241: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.294 david 1242: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1243: by <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>,
1244: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
1245: <a href="mailto:art@openbsd.org">Artur Grabowski</a>,
1246: <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
1247: <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1248: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1249: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1250: <p>
1251: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.294 david 1252: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1253: by <a href="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">Todd C. Miller</a>,
1254: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1255: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1256: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1257: <p>
1.118 deraadt 1258: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.294 david 1259: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1260: by <a href="mailto:beck@openbsd.org">Bob Beck</a>.<br>
1261: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1262: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1263: <p>
1.153 jufi 1264: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.294 david 1265: <a href="events.html#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>,
1266: <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1267: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1268: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.142 deraadt 1269: <p>
1.107 deraadt 1270: </ul>
1.294 david 1271: </ul>
1.106 deraadt 1272:
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1275: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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