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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%">
22: <tr>
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>,
1.301 miod 57: <a href="#35">3.5</a>,
1.312 david 58: <a href="#36">3.6</a>,
59: <a href="#37">3.7</a>.
1.114 philen 60: </td>
61: </tr>
62: </table>
1.56 deraadt 63: <hr>
64:
1.294 david 65: <a name="goals"></a>
1.278 deraadt 66: <ul>
1.294 david 67: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Goal</font></h3><p>
1.22 deraadt 68:
1.14 deraadt 69: OpenBSD believes in strong security. Our aspiration is to be NUMBER
1.22 deraadt 70: ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there). Our
71: open software development model permits us to take a more
72: uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP,
73: or other vendors are able to. We can make changes the vendors would
1.27 deraadt 74: not make. Also, since OpenBSD is exported with <a href=crypto.html>
1.45 deraadt 75: cryptography</a>, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards
76: fixing security problems.<p>
1.18 deraadt 77:
1.288 matthieu 78: <a name="disclosure"></a>
1.294 david 79: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Full Disclosure</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 80:
1.45 deraadt 81: Like many readers of the
1.196 jufi 82: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">
1.18 deraadt 83: BUGTRAQ mailing list</a>,
1.106 deraadt 84: we believe in full disclosure of security problems. In the
85: operating system arena, we were probably the first to embrace
86: the concept. Many vendors, even of free software, still try
87: to hide issues from their users.<p>
88:
89: Security information moves very fast in cracker circles. On the other
90: hand, our experience is that coding and releasing of proper security
91: fixes typically requires about an hour of work -- very fast fix
92: turnaround is possible. Thus we think that full disclosure helps the
93: people who really care about security.<p>
94:
1.288 matthieu 95: <a name="process"></a>
1.294 david 96: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Audit Process</font></h3><p>
1.15 deraadt 97:
1.12 deraadt 98: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
1.45 deraadt 99: members who continue to search for and fix new security holes. We
100: have been auditing since the summer of 1996. The process we follow to
101: increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of
1.106 deraadt 102: every critical software component. We are not so much looking for
103: security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if
1.138 deraadt 104: years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security
1.106 deraadt 105: issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the
106: better. Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system.
107: Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our
108: audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs
109: re-auditing with these new flaws in mind. Code often gets audited
110: multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing
111: skills.<p>
1.12 deraadt 112:
1.94 deraadt 113: Some members of our security auditing team worked for Secure Networks,
114: the company that made the industry's premier network security scanning
115: software package Ballista (Secure Networks got purchased by Network
116: Associates, Ballista got renamed to Cybercop Scanner, and well...)
117: That company did a lot of security research, and thus fit in well
1.106 deraadt 118: with the OpenBSD stance. OpenBSD passed Ballista's tests with flying
119: colours since day 1.<p>
1.31 deraadt 120:
1.34 deraadt 121: Another facet of our security auditing process is its proactiveness.
1.45 deraadt 122: In most cases we have found that the determination of exploitability
123: is not an issue. During our ongoing auditing process we find many
124: bugs, and endeavor to fix them even though exploitability is not
125: proven. We fix the bug, and we move on to find other bugs to fix. We
126: have fixed many simple and obvious careless programming errors in code
127: and only months later discovered that the problems were in fact
128: exploitable. (Or, more likely someone on
1.197 jufi 129: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>
1.45 deraadt 130: would report that other operating systems were vulnerable to a `newly
131: discovered problem', and then it would be discovered that OpenBSD had
132: been fixed in a previous release). In other cases we have been saved
133: from full exploitability of complex step-by-step attacks because we
134: had fixed one of the intermediate steps. An example of where we
1.94 deraadt 135: managed such a success is the lpd advisory that Secure Networks put out.
136: <p>
1.29 deraadt 137:
1.288 matthieu 138: <a name="newtech"></a>
1.294 david 139: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">New Technologies</font></h3><p>
1.278 deraadt 140:
141: As we audit source code, we often invent new ways of solving problems.
142: Sometimes these ideas have been used before in some random application
143: written somewhere, but perhaps not taken to the degree that we do.
144: <p>
145:
146: <ul>
147: <li>strlcpy() and strlcat()
148: <li>Memory protection purify
149: <ul>
150: <li>W^X
151: <li>.rodata segment
152: <li>Guard pages
153: <li>Randomized malloc()
154: <li>Randomized mmap()
155: <li>atexit() and stdio protection
156: </ul>
1.295 otto 157: <li>Privilege separation
1.278 deraadt 158: <li>Privilege revocation
159: <li>Chroot jailing
160: <li>New uids
161: <li>ProPolice
162: <li>... and others
163: </ul>
164: <p>
165:
1.294 david 166: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">The Reward</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 167:
1.45 deraadt 168: Our proactive auditing process has really paid off. Statements like
1.35 deraadt 169: ``This problem was fixed in OpenBSD about 6 months ago'' have become
1.45 deraadt 170: commonplace in security forums like
1.197 jufi 171: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>.<p>
1.35 deraadt 172:
1.45 deraadt 173: The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately
1.80 espie 174: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0->2.1 transition,
1.45 deraadt 175: over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997. Thousands (yes,
176: thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long
177: period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol
178: implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem
179: races. Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were
180: fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed
181: fixing for our 2.2 release. We do not find as many problems anymore,
182: it is simply a case of diminishing returns. Recently the security
183: problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or
184: complicated. Still we will persist for a number of reasons:<p>
1.36 deraadt 185:
1.35 deraadt 186: <ul>
1.45 deraadt 187: <li>Occasionally we find a simple problem we missed earlier. Doh!
1.35 deraadt 188: <li>Security is like an arms race; the best attackers will continue
1.45 deraadt 189: to search for more complicated exploits, so we will too.
190: <li>Finding and fixing subtle flaws in complicated software is
191: a lot of fun.
1.35 deraadt 192: </ul>
1.106 deraadt 193: <p>
1.15 deraadt 194:
1.14 deraadt 195: The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue
1.28 deraadt 196: to find and fix new security flaws.<p>
1.12 deraadt 197:
1.288 matthieu 198: <a name="default"></a>
1.294 david 199: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">"Secure by Default"</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 200:
201: To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security
202: experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we
203: ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode. All non-essential
204: services are disabled. As the user/administrator becomes more familiar
205: with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other
206: parts of the system. During the process of learning how to enable a new
207: service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.<p>
208:
209: This is in stark contrast to the increasing number of systems that
210: ship with NFS, mountd, web servers, and various other services enabled
211: by default, creating instantaneous security problems for their users
212: within minutes after their first install.<p>
213:
1.288 matthieu 214: <a name="crypto"></a>
1.294 david 215: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Cryptography</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 216:
217: And of course, since the OpenBSD project is based in Canada, it is possible
218: for us to integrate cryptography. For more information, read the page
1.116 deraadt 219: outlining <a href=crypto.html>what we have done with cryptography</a>.</p>
1.106 deraadt 220:
1.294 david 221: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Advisories</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 222:
223: <li>
1.312 david 224: <a name="37"></a>
225:
226: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
227: These are the OpenBSD 3.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
228: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
229: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
230:
231: <p>
232: <ul>
1.313 brad 233: <li><a href="errata.html#cvs">Jun 7, 2005:
234: Fix a buffer overflow, memory leaks, and NULL pointer
235: dereference in cvs(1).</a>
1.312 david 236: </ul>
237:
238: <li>
1.301 miod 239: <a name="36"></a>
240:
241: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
242: These are the OpenBSD 3.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
243: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
244: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
245:
246: <p>
1.302 markus 247: <ul>
1.311 deraadt 248: <li><a href="errata36.html#cvs">Apr 28, 2005:
1.310 brad 249: Fix a buffer overflow, memory leaks, and NULL pointer
250: dereference in cvs(1).</a>
1.311 deraadt 251: <li><a href="errata36.html#telnet">Mar 30, 2005:
1.309 brad 252: Due to buffer overflows in telnet(1), a malicious
253: server or man-in-the-middle attack could allow
254: execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of
255: the user invoking telnet(1).</a>
1.311 deraadt 256: <li><a href="errata36.html#copy">Mar 16, 2005:
1.307 brad 257: More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
258: functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.311 deraadt 259: <li><a href="errata36.html#locore">Feb 28, 2005:
1.306 brad 260: More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
261: functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.311 deraadt 262: <li><a href="errata36.html#httpd">Jan 12, 2005:
1.304 brad 263: httpd(8)'s mod_include module fails to properly validate
264: the length of user supplied tag strings prior to copying
1.305 brad 265: them to a local buffer, causing a buffer overflow.</a>
1.311 deraadt 266: <li><a href="errata36.html#pfkey">Dec 14, 2004:
1.302 markus 267: On systems running isakmpd(8) it is possible for a local
268: user to cause kernel memory corruption and system panic by
1.303 markus 269: setting ipsec(4) credentials on a socket.</a>
1.302 markus 270: </ul>
1.301 miod 271:
272: <p>
1.314 ! miod 273: OpenBSD 3.5 and earlier releases are not supported anymore. The following
! 274: paragraphs only list advisories issued while they were maintained; these
! 275: releases are likely to be affected by the advisories for more recent releases.
! 276: <br>
! 277:
1.301 miod 278: <li>
1.288 matthieu 279: <a name="35"></a>
1.279 deraadt 280:
1.294 david 281: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.279 deraadt 282: These are the OpenBSD 3.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.314 ! miod 283: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
! 284: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.5 is no longer being maintained,
! 285: you should update your machine.
1.279 deraadt 286:
287: <p>
288: <ul>
1.310 brad 289: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs4">Apr 28, 2005:
290: Fix a buffer overflow, memory leaks, and NULL pointer
291: dereference in cvs(1).</a>
1.309 brad 292: <li><a href="errata35.html#telnet">Mar 30, 2005:
293: Due to buffer overflows in telnet(1), a malicious
294: server or man-in-the-middle attack could allow
295: execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of
296: the user invoking telnet(1).</a>
1.308 brad 297: <li><a href="errata35.html#copy">Mar 16, 2005:
1.307 brad 298: More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
299: functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.306 brad 300: <li><a href="errata35.html#locore">Feb 28, 2005:
301: More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
302: functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.304 brad 303: <li><a href="errata35.html#httpd3">Jan 12, 2005:
304: httpd(8)'s mod_include module fails to properly validate
305: the length of user supplied tag strings prior to copying
1.305 brad 306: them to a local buffer, causing a buffer overflow.</a>
1.302 markus 307: <li><a href="errata35.html#pfkey">Dec 14, 2004:
308: On systems running isakmpd(8) it is possible for a local
309: user to cause kernel memory corruption and system panic by
1.303 markus 310: setting ipsec(4) credentials on a socket.</a>
1.301 miod 311: <li><a href="errata35.html#radius">Sep 20, 2004:
1.299 millert 312: Radius-based authentication is vulnerable to spoofed replies.</a>
1.301 miod 313: <li><a href="errata35.html#xpm">Sep 16, 2004:
1.298 brad 314: The Xpm library has vulnerabilities when parsing malicious images.</a>
1.301 miod 315: <li><a href="errata35.html#httpd2"> Sep 10, 2004:
1.297 brad 316: httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite module can be made to write one zero byte in
317: an arbitrary memory position outside of a char array, causing a DoS
318: or possibly buffer overflows.</a>
1.301 miod 319: <li><a href="errata35.html#httpd"> Jun 12, 2004:
1.300 deraadt 320: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in httpd(8) / mod_ssl.</a>
1.301 miod 321: <li><a href="errata35.html#isakmpd"> Jun 10, 2004:
1.291 hshoexer 322: isakmpd(8) still has issues with unauthorized SA deletion,
1.293 brad 323: an attacker can delete IPsec tunnels at will.</a>
1.301 miod 324: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs3"> Jun 9, 2004:
1.290 millert 325: Multiple remote vulnerabilities have been found in the cvs(1)
326: server which can be used by CVS clients to crash or execute
1.293 brad 327: arbitrary code on the server.</a>
1.301 miod 328: <li><a href="errata35.html#kerberos"> May 30, 2004:
1.289 beck 329: kdc(8) performs inadequate checking of request fields, leading
330: to the possibility of principal impersonation from other
331: Kerberos realms if they are trusted with a cross-realm trust.</a>
1.301 miod 332: <li><a href="errata35.html#xdm"> May 26, 2004:
1.287 matthieu 333: xdm(1) ignores the requestPort resource and creates a
1.293 brad 334: listening socket regardless of the setting in xdm-config.</a>
1.301 miod 335: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs2"> May 20, 2004:
1.286 otto 336: A buffer overflow in the cvs(1) server has been found,
337: which can be used by CVS clients to execute arbitrary code on
1.293 brad 338: the server.</a>
1.301 miod 339: <li><a href="errata35.html#procfs"> May 13, 2004:
1.282 tedu 340: Integer overflow problems were found in procfs, allowing
1.293 brad 341: reading of arbitrary kernel memory.</a>
1.301 miod 342: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281 otto 343: Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
344: allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
1.293 brad 345: repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.279 deraadt 346: </ul>
347:
348: <p>
349: <li>
1.288 matthieu 350: <a name="34"></a>
1.261 david 351:
1.294 david 352: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.261 david 353: These are the OpenBSD 3.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.301 miod 354: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
355: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.4 is no longer being maintained,
356: you should update your machine.
1.261 david 357: <p>
358: <ul>
1.302 markus 359: <li><a href="errata34.html#pfkey">Dec 14, 2004:
360: On systems running isakmpd(8) it is possible for a local
361: user to cause kernel memory corruption and system panic by
1.303 markus 362: setting ipsec(4) credentials on a socket.</a>
1.298 brad 363: <li><a href="errata34.html#xpm">Sep 16, 2004:
364: The Xpm library has vulnerabilities when parsing malicious images.</a>
1.297 brad 365: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd4"> Sep 10, 2004:
366: httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite module can be made to write one zero byte in
367: an arbitrary memory position outside of a char array, causing a DoS
368: or possibly buffer overflows.</a>
1.294 david 369: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd3"> Jun 12, 2004:
1.300 deraadt 370: Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in httpd(8) / mod_ssl.</a>
1.294 david 371: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd3"> Jun 10, 2004:
1.292 brad 372: isakmpd(8) still has issues with unauthorized SA deletion,
1.293 brad 373: an attacker can delete IPsec tunnels at will.</a>
1.294 david 374: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs3"> Jun 9, 2004:
1.290 millert 375: Multiple remote vulnerabilities have been found in the cvs(1)
376: server which can be used by CVS clients to crash or execute
1.293 brad 377: arbitrary code on the server.</a>
1.294 david 378: <li><a href="errata34.html#kerberos"> May 30, 2004:
1.289 beck 379: kdc(8) performs inadequate checking of request fields, leading
380: to the possibility of principal impersonation from other
381: Kerberos realms if they are trusted with a cross-realm trust.</a>
1.294 david 382: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs2"> May 20, 2004:
1.286 otto 383: A buffer overflow in the cvs(1) server has been found,
384: which can be used by CVS clients to execute arbitrary code on
385: the server.</a>
1.294 david 386: <li><a href="errata34.html#procfs"> May 13, 2004:
1.282 tedu 387: Integer overflow problems were found in procfs, allowing
388: reading of arbitrary kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 389: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281 otto 390: Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
391: allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
392: repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.294 david 393: <li><a href="errata34.html#openssl"> March 17, 2004:
1.277 millert 394: A missing check for a NULL-pointer dereference may allow a
1.281 otto 395: remote attacker to crash applications using OpenSSL.</a>
1.294 david 396: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd2"> March 17, 2004:
1.276 brad 397: Defects in the payload validation and processing functions of
398: isakmpd have been discovered. An attacker could send malformed
399: ISAKMP messages and cause isakmpd to crash or to loop endlessly.</a>
1.294 david 400: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd2"> March 13, 2004:
1.275 brad 401: Due to a bug in the parsing of Allow/Deny rules for httpd(8)'s
402: access module, using IP addresses without a netmask on big endian
403: 64-bit platforms causes the rules to fail to match.</a>
1.294 david 404: <li><a href="errata34.html#ip6"> February 8, 2004:
1.272 dhartmei 405: An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists that could be used by an
406: attacker to cause a denial of service attack.</a>
1.294 david 407: <li><a href="errata34.html#sysvshm"> February 5, 2004:
1.271 millert 408: A reference counting bug in shmat(2) could be used to write to
409: kernel memory under certain circumstances.</a>
1.294 david 410: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd">January 13, 2004:
1.266 brad 411: Several message handling flaws in isakmpd(8) have been reported
1.271 millert 412: by Thomas Walpuski.</a>
1.294 david 413: <li><a href="errata34.html#ibcs2">November 17, 2003:
1.264 henning 414: It may be possible for a local user to overrun the stack in
415: compat_ibcs2(8) and cause a kernel panic.</a>
1.294 david 416: <li><a href="errata34.html#asn1">November 1, 2003:
1.262 margarid 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).</a>
1.261 david 420: </ul>
421:
422: <li>
1.288 matthieu 423: <a name="33"></a>
1.246 deraadt 424:
1.294 david 425: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.246 deraadt 426: These are the OpenBSD 3.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 427: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
428: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.3 is no longer being maintained,
1.284 otto 429: you should update your machine.
1.246 deraadt 430: <p>
431: <ul>
1.294 david 432: <li><a href="errata33.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281 otto 433: Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
434: allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
435: repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.294 david 436: <li><a href="errata33.html#openssl"> March 17, 2004:
1.277 millert 437: A missing check for a NULL-pointer dereference may allow a
1.281 otto 438: remote attacker to crash applications using OpenSSL.</a>
1.294 david 439: <li><a href="errata33.html#isakmpd2"> March 17, 2004:
1.276 brad 440: Defects in the payload validation and processing functions of
441: isakmpd have been discovered. An attacker could send malformed
442: ISAKMP messages and cause isakmpd to crash or to loop endlessly.</a>
1.294 david 443: <li><a href="errata33.html#httpd2"> March 13, 2004:
1.275 brad 444: Due to a bug in the parsing of Allow/Deny rules for httpd(8)'s
445: access module, using IP addresses without a netmask on big endian
446: 64-bit platforms causes the rules to fail to match.</a>
1.294 david 447: <li><a href="errata33.html#ip6"> February 8, 2004:
1.275 brad 448: An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists that could be used by an
449: attacker to cause a denial of service attack.</a>
1.294 david 450: <li><a href="errata33.html#sysvshm"> February 5, 2004:
1.271 millert 451: A reference counting bug in shmat(2) could be used to write to
452: kernel memory under certain circumstances.</a>
1.294 david 453: <li><a href="errata33.html#isakmpd">January 15, 2004:
1.268 brad 454: Several message handling flaws in isakmpd(8) have been reported
1.271 millert 455: by Thomas Walpuski.</a>
1.294 david 456: <li><a href="errata33.html#ibcs2">November 17, 2003:
1.264 henning 457: It may be possible for a local user to execute arbitrary code
458: resulting in escalation of privileges due to a stack overrun
459: in compat_ibcs2(8).</a>
1.294 david 460: <li><a href="errata33.html#asn1">October 1, 2003:
1.257 millert 461: The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
462: allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
463: applications linked with ssl(3).</a>
1.294 david 464: <li><a href="errata33.html#pfnorm">September 24, 2003:
1.258 beck 465: Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260 margarid 466: remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.294 david 467: <li><a href="errata33.html#sendmail">September 17, 2003:
1.256 millert 468: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
469: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 470: <li><a href="errata33.html#sshbuffer">September 16, 2003:
1.255 millert 471: OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
472: that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 473: <li><a href="errata33.html#sysvsem">September 10, 2003:
1.254 millert 474: Root may be able to reduce the security level by taking advantage of
475: an integer overflow when the semaphore limits are made very large.</a>
1.294 david 476: <li><a href="errata33.html#semget">August 20, 2003:
1.252 millert 477: An improper bounds check in the kernel may allow a local user
478: to panic the kernel.</a>
1.294 david 479: <li><a href="errata33.html#realpath">August 4, 2003:
1.249 millert 480: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
481: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.246 deraadt 482: </ul>
483:
1.265 miod 484:
1.247 david 485: <p>
1.246 deraadt 486: <li>
1.288 matthieu 487: <a name="32"></a>
1.224 deraadt 488:
1.294 david 489: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.224 deraadt 490: These are the OpenBSD 3.2 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 3.2 is no longer being maintained,
1.265 miod 493: you should update your machine.
1.224 deraadt 494: <p>
495: <ul>
1.294 david 496: <li><a href="errata32.html#asn1">October 1, 2003:
1.257 millert 497: The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
498: allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
499: applications linked with ssl(3). This does not affect OpenSSH.</a>
1.294 david 500: <li><a href="errata32.html#pfnorm">September 24, 2003:
1.258 beck 501: Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260 margarid 502: remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.294 david 503: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail4">September 17, 2003:
1.256 millert 504: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
505: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 506: <li><a href="errata32.html#sshbuffer">September 16, 2003:
1.255 millert 507: OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
508: that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 509: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail3">August 25, 2003:
1.253 brad 510: Fix for a potential security issue in
511: sendmail(8) with respect to DNS maps.</a>
1.294 david 512: <li><a href="errata32.html#realpath">August 4, 2003:
1.249 millert 513: An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
514: may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.294 david 515: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail2">March 31, 2003:
1.244 miod 516: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
517: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 518: <li><a href="errata32.html#kerberos">March 24, 2003:
1.242 millert 519: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
520: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.294 david 521: <li><a href="errata32.html#kpr">March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 522: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 523: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.294 david 524: <li><a href="errata32.html#blinding">March 18, 2003:
1.239 miod 525: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
526: timing attacks.</a>
1.294 david 527: <li><a href="errata32.html#lprm">March 5, 2003:
1.238 millert 528: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to elevate
529: privileges to user daemon.</a>.
1.294 david 530: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail">March 3, 2003:
1.237 miod 531: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
532: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 533: <li><a href="errata32.html#httpd">February 25, 2003:
1.236 margarid 534: httpd(8) leaks file inode numbers via ETag header as well as
535: child PIDs in multipart MIME boundary generation. This could
536: lead, for example, to NFS exploitation because it uses inode
537: numbers as part of the file handle.</a>
1.294 david 538: <li><a href="errata32.html#ssl">February 22, 2003:
1.234 margarid 539: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
540: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
541: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
542: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.294 david 543: <li><a href="errata32.html#cvs">January 20, 2003:
1.232 millert 544: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
545: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.233 margarid 546: run as a privileged user.</a>
1.294 david 547: <li><a href="errata32.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 548: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
549: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294 david 550: <li><a href="errata32.html#pool">November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 551: A logic error in the pool kernel memory allocator could cause
552: memory corruption in low-memory situations, causing the system
553: to crash.</a>
1.294 david 554: <li><a href="errata32.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 555: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
556: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294 david 557: <li><a href="errata32.html#pfbridge">November 6, 2002:
1.233 margarid 558: Network bridges running pf with scrubbing enabled could cause
559: mbuf corruption, causing the system to crash.</a>
1.294 david 560: <li><a href="errata32.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.228 miod 561: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
562: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224 deraadt 563: </ul>
564:
1.227 miod 565: <p>
566: <li>
1.288 matthieu 567: <a name="31"></a>
1.203 deraadt 568:
1.294 david 569: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.203 deraadt 570: These are the OpenBSD 3.1 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 571: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
572: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.1 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 573: you should update your machine.
1.203 deraadt 574:
575: <p>
576: <ul>
1.294 david 577: <li><a href="errata31.html#sendmail2">March 31, 2003:
1.244 miod 578: A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
579: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 580: <li><a href="errata31.html#kerberos">March 24, 2003:
1.242 millert 581: A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
582: exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.294 david 583: <li><a href="errata31.html#kpr">March 19, 2003:
1.241 jufi 584: OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240 miod 585: designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.294 david 586: <li><a href="errata31.html#blinding">March 18, 2003:
1.239 miod 587: Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
588: timing attacks.</a>
1.294 david 589: <li><a href="errata31.html#lprm">March 4, 2003:
1.238 millert 590: A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to gain
591: root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 592: <li><a href="errata31.html#sendmail">March 3, 2003:
1.237 miod 593: A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
594: sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 595: <li><a href="errata31.html#ssl2">February 23, 2003:
1.235 miod 596: In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
597: a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
598: been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
599: sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.294 david 600: <li><a href="errata31.html#cvs">January 20, 2003:
1.232 millert 601: A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
602: escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.294 david 603: run as a privileged user</a>.
604: <li><a href="errata31.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 605: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
606: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294 david 607: <li><a href="errata31.html#kernresource">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 608: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
609: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
1.294 david 610: <li><a href="errata31.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 611: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
612: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294 david 613: <li><a href="errata31.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.226 miod 614: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
615: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 616: <li><a href="errata31.html#kerntime">October 2, 2002:
1.222 jason 617: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
618: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 619: <li><a href="errata31.html#scarg">August 11, 2002:
1.221 provos 620: An insufficient boundary check in the select system call
1.220 miod 621: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
622: in kernel context.</a>
1.294 david 623: <li><a href="errata31.html#ssl">July 30, 2002:
1.218 miod 624: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
625: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
626: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
627: exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 628: <li><a href="errata31.html#xdr">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 629: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
630: possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 631: <li><a href="errata31.html#pppd">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 632: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
633: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.294 david 634: <li><a href="errata31.html#isakmpd">July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 635: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
636: crash.</a>
1.294 david 637: <li><a href="errata31.html#ktrace">June 27, 2002:
1.215 miod 638: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.294 david 639: <li><a href="errata31.html#modssl">June 26, 2002:
1.213 miod 640: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 641: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 642: <li><a href="errata31.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 643: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294 david 644: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshd">June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 645: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 646: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
647: privilege escalation.</a>
1.294 david 648: <li><a href="errata31.html#httpd">June 19, 2002:
1.211 miod 649: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
650: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 651: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshbsdauth">May 22, 2002:
1.209 markus 652: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups
653: in the password database, it is possible that sshd(8) does
654: ACL checks for the requested user name but uses the password
655: database entry of a different user for authentication. This
656: means that denied users might authenticate successfully
657: while permitted users could be locked out.</a>
1.294 david 658: <li><a href="errata31.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 659: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
660: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294 david 661: <li><a href="errata31.html#sudo">April 25, 2002:
1.205 millert 662: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294 david 663: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.205 millert 664: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
665: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
666: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
667: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203 deraadt 668: </ul>
669:
1.235 miod 670: <p>
1.203 deraadt 671: <li>
1.288 matthieu 672: <a name="30"></a>
1.187 deraadt 673:
1.294 david 674: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.187 deraadt 675: These are the OpenBSD 3.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 676: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
677: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.0 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 678: you should update your machine.
1.187 deraadt 679:
680: <p>
681: <ul>
1.294 david 682: <li><a href="errata30.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230 millert 683: A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
684: remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294 david 685: <li><a href="errata30.html#kernresource">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 686: Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
687: may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
1.294 david 688: <li><a href="errata30.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229 miod 689: An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
690: arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294 david 691: <li><a href="errata30.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.226 miod 692: A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
693: to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 694: <li><a href="errata30.html#kerntime">October 7, 2002:
1.223 miod 695: Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
696: may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 697: <li><a href="errata30.html#scarg">August 11, 2002:
1.220 miod 698: An insufficient boundary check in the select and poll system calls
699: allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
700: in kernel context.</a>
1.294 david 701: <li><a href="errata30.html#ssl">July 30, 2002:
1.218 miod 702: Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
703: client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
704: crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
705: exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 706: <li><a href="errata30.html#xdr">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 707: A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
708: possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 709: <li><a href="errata30.html#pppd">July 29, 2002:
1.218 miod 710: A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
711: alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.294 david 712: <li><a href="errata30.html#isakmpd2">July 5, 2002:
1.218 miod 713: Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
714: crash.</a>
1.294 david 715: <li><a href="errata30.html#ktrace">June 27, 2002:
1.215 miod 716: The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.294 david 717: <li><a href="errata30.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 718: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294 david 719: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshdauth">June 24, 2002:
1.216 deraadt 720: All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213 miod 721: input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
722: privilege escalation.</a>
1.294 david 723: <li><a href="errata30.html#modssl">June 24, 2002:
1.213 miod 724: A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214 miod 725: mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294 david 726: <li><a href="errata30.html#httpd">June 19, 2002:
1.213 miod 727: A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
728: encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.294 david 729: <li><a href="errata30.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 730: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
731: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294 david 732: <li><a href="errata30.html#sudo2">April 25, 2002:
1.205 millert 733: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294 david 734: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.205 millert 735: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
736: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
737: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
738: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.294 david 739: <li><a href="errata30.html#mail">April 11, 2002:
1.202 millert 740: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
741: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
742: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 743: <li><a href="errata30.html#approval">March 19, 2002:
1.201 millert 744: Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in
745: the password database, it is possible for the rexecd(8) and rshd(8)
746: daemons to execute a shell from a password database entry for a
747: different user. Similarly, atrun(8) may change to the wrong
748: home directory when running jobs.</a>
1.294 david 749: <li><a href="errata30.html#zlib">March 13, 2002:
1.200 millert 750: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
751: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
752: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
753: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 754: <li><a href="errata30.html#openssh">March 8, 2002:
1.198 millert 755: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 756: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.294 david 757: <li><a href="errata30.html#ptrace">January 21, 2002:
1.192 jason 758: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
759: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
760: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.294 david 761: <li><a href="errata30.html#sudo">January 17, 2002:
1.191 millert 762: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
763: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
764: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 765: <li><a href="errata30.html#lpd">November 28, 2001:
1.189 millert 766: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
767: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
768: remote line printer access.</a>
1.294 david 769: <li><a href="errata30.html#vi.recover">November 13, 2001:
1.188 millert 770: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
771: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.294 david 772: <li><a href="errata30.html#pf">November 13, 2001:
1.190 mpech 773: pf(4) was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets,
774: resulting in a crash.</a>
1.294 david 775: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshd">November 12, 2001:
1.190 mpech 776: A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
777: if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.</a>
1.187 deraadt 778: </ul>
779:
780: <p>
781: <li>
1.288 matthieu 782: <a name="29"></a>
1.173 deraadt 783:
1.294 david 784: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.173 deraadt 785: These are the OpenBSD 2.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 786: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
787: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>. for 2.9 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 788: you should update your machine.
789:
1.173 deraadt 790:
791: <p>
792: <ul>
1.294 david 793: <li><a href="errata29.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212 millert 794: A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294 david 795: <li><a href="errata29.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208 millert 796: A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
797: protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294 david 798: <li><a href="errata29.html#sudo2">April 25, 2002:
1.207 millert 799: A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294 david 800: <li><a href="errata29.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.206 millert 801: A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
802: overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
803: or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
804: in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.294 david 805: <li><a href="errata29.html#mail">April 11, 2002:
1.202 millert 806: The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
807: in non-interactive mode. As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
808: this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 809: <li><a href="errata29.html#zlib">March 13, 2002:
1.200 millert 810: A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
811: this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
812: The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
813: currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.294 david 814: <li><a href="errata29.html#openssh">March 8, 2002:
1.198 millert 815: An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199 jufi 816: may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.294 david 817: <li><a href="errata29.html#ptrace">January 21, 2002:
1.198 millert 818: A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
819: allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
820: processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.294 david 821: <li><a href="errata29.html#sudo">January 17, 2002:
1.191 millert 822: There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
823: when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
824: allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 825: <li><a href="errata29.html#lpd2">November 28, 2001:
1.189 millert 826: An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
827: creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
828: remote line printer access.</a>
1.294 david 829: <li><a href="errata29.html#vi.recover">November 13, 2001:
1.190 mpech 830: The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
831: to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.294 david 832: <li><a href="errata29.html#uucp">September 11, 2001:
1.184 millert 833: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
834: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 835: <li><a href="errata29.html#lpd">August 29, 2001:
1.183 millert 836: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
837: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.294 david 838: <li><a href="errata29.html#sendmail2">August 21, 2001:
1.181 millert 839: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
840: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 841: <li><a href="errata29.html#nfs">July 30, 2001:
1.180 jason 842: A kernel buffer overflow in the NFS code can be used to execute
843: arbitrary code by users with mount privileges (only root by
1.181 millert 844: default).</a>
1.294 david 845: <li><a href="errata29.html#kernexec">June 15, 2001:
1.178 aaron 846: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 847: <li><a href="errata29.html#sshcookie">June 12, 2001:
1.177 markus 848: sshd(8) allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies"
849: if X11 forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled
850: by default.</a>
1.294 david 851: <li><a href="errata29.html#fts">May 30, 2001:
1.176 millert 852: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
853: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.294 david 854: <li><a href="errata29.html#sendmail">May 29, 2001:
1.174 millert 855: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
856: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173 deraadt 857: </ul>
858:
859: <p>
860: <li>
1.288 matthieu 861: <a name="28"></a>
1.152 deraadt 862:
1.294 david 863: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.152 deraadt 864: These are the OpenBSD 2.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 865: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
866: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>. for 2.8 is no longer being maintained,
1.258 beck 867: you should update your machine.
868:
1.152 deraadt 869:
870: <p>
871: <ul>
1.294 david 872: <li><a href="errata28.html#uucp">September 11, 2001:
1.184 millert 873: A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
874: attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 875: <li><a href="errata28.html#lpd">August 29, 2001:
1.183 millert 876: A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
877: attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.294 david 878: <li><a href="errata28.html#sendmail2">August 21, 2001:
1.181 millert 879: A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
880: attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294 david 881: <li><a href="errata28.html#kernexec">June 15, 2001:
1.178 aaron 882: A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.294 david 883: <li><a href="errata28.html#fts">May 30, 2001:
1.176 millert 884: Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
885: into the wrong directory.</a>
1.294 david 886: <li><a href="errata28.html#sendmail">May 29, 2001:
1.175 millert 887: Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
888: leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.294 david 889: <li><a href="errata28.html#ipf_frag">Apr 23, 2001:
1.231 mickey 890: IPF contains a serious bug with its handling of fragment caching.</a>
1.294 david 891: <li><a href="errata28.html#glob_limit">Apr 23, 2001:
1.172 ericj 892: ftpd(8) contains a potential DoS relating to glob(3).</a>
1.294 david 893: <li><a href="errata28.html#glob">Apr 10, 2001:
1.170 ericj 894: The glob(3) library call contains multiple buffer overflows.</a>
1.294 david 895: <li><a href="errata28.html#readline">Mar 18, 2001:
1.169 millert 896: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.294 david 897: <li><a href="errata28.html#ipsec_ah">Mar 2, 2001:
1.167 ericj 898: Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun in the kernel.</a>
1.294 david 899: <li><a href="errata28.html#userldt">Mar 2, 2001:
1.168 horacio 900: The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory.</a>
1.294 david 901: <li><a href="errata28.html#sudo">Feb 22, 2001:
1.171 millert 902: a non-exploitable buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.294 david 903: <li><a href="errata28.html#named">Jan 29, 2001:
1.163 jason 904: merge named(8) with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities.</a>
1.294 david 905: <li><a href="errata28.html#rnd">Jan 22, 2001:
1.162 jason 906: rnd(4) did not use all of its input when written to.</a>
1.294 david 907: <li><a href="errata28.html#xlock">Dec 22, 2000:
1.159 ericj 908: xlock(1)'s authentication was re-done to authenticate via a named pipe. (patch and new xlock binaries included).</a>
1.294 david 909: <li><a href="errata28.html#procfs">Dec 18, 2000:
1.157 ericj 910: Procfs contains numerous overflows. Procfs is not used by default in OpenBSD. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 911: <li><a href="errata28.html#kerberos2">Dec 10, 2000:
1.156 deraadt 912: Another problem exists in KerberosIV libraries (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 913: <li><a href="errata28.html#kerberos">Dec 7, 2000:
1.155 deraadt 914: A set of problems in KerberosIV exist (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 915: <li><a href="errata28.html#ftpd">Dec 4, 2000:
1.154 millert 916: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152 deraadt 917: </ul>
918:
919: <p>
920: <li>
1.288 matthieu 921: <a name="27"></a>
1.124 deraadt 922:
1.294 david 923: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.124 deraadt 924: These are the OpenBSD 2.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 925: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.124 deraadt 926: OpenBSD 2.6 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.7.
927:
928: <p>
929: <ul>
1.294 david 930: <li><a href="errata27.html#readline">Mar 18, 2001:
1.169 millert 931: The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.294 david 932: <li><a href="errata27.html#sudo">Feb 22, 2001:
1.169 millert 933: a buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.294 david 934: <li><a href="errata27.html#ftpd">Dec 4, 2000:
1.154 millert 935: A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 936: <li><a href="errata27.html#sshforwarding">Nov 10, 2000:
1.152 deraadt 937: Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding.
938: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 939: <li><a href="errata27.html#xtrans">Oct 26, 2000:
1.151 matthieu 940: X11 libraries have 2 potential overflows in xtrans code.
941: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 942: <li><a href="errata27.html#httpd">Oct 18, 2000:
1.150 beck 943: Apache mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias modules could expose files
944: on the server in certain configurations if used.
945: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 946: <li><a href="errata27.html#telnetd">Oct 10, 2000:
1.149 millert 947: The telnet daemon does not strip out the TERMINFO, TERMINFO_DIRS,
948: TERMPATH and TERMCAP environment variables as it should.
949: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 950: <li><a href="errata27.html#format_strings">Oct 6, 2000:
1.148 millert 951: There are printf-style format string bugs in several privileged
952: programs. (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 953: <li><a href="errata27.html#curses">Oct 6, 2000:
1.147 millert 954: libcurses honored terminal descriptions in the $HOME/.terminfo
955: directory as well as in the TERMCAP environment variable for
956: setuid and setgid applications.
1.146 deraadt 957: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 958: <li><a href="errata27.html#talkd">Oct 6, 2000:
1.146 deraadt 959: A format string vulnerability exists in talkd(8).
960: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 961: <li><a href="errata27.html#pw_error">Oct 3, 2000:
1.145 aaron 962: A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error() function of the
963: libutil library, yielding localhost root through chpass(1).
964: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 965: <li><a href="errata27.html#ipsec">Sep 18, 2000:
1.144 jason 966: Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions.
967: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 968: <li><a href="errata27.html#xlock">Aug 16, 2000:
1.141 deraadt 969: A format string vulnerability (localhost root) exists in xlock(1).
970: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 971: <li><a href="errata27.html#X11_libs">July 14, 2000:
1.139 deraadt 972: Various bugs found in X11 libraries have various side effects, almost
973: completely denial of service in OpenBSD.
974: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 975: <li><a href="errata27.html#ftpd">July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 976: Just like pretty much all the other unix ftp daemons
977: on the planet, ftpd had a remote root hole in it.
978: Luckily, ftpd was not enabled by default.
1.137 deraadt 979: The problem exists if anonymous ftp is enabled.
1.136 deraadt 980: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 981: <li><a href="errata27.html#mopd">July 5, 2000:
1.136 deraadt 982: Mopd, very rarely used, contained some buffer overflows.
983: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 984: <li><a href="errata27.html#libedit">June 28, 2000:
1.135 deraadt 985: libedit would check for a <b>.editrc</b> file in the current
986: directory. Not known to be a real security issue, but a patch
987: is available anyways.
988: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 989: <li><a href="errata27.html#dhclient">June 24, 2000:
1.134 deraadt 990: A serious bug in dhclient(8) could allow strings from a
991: malicious dhcp server to be executed in the shell as root.
992: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 993: <li><a href="errata27.html#isakmpd">June 9, 2000:
1.133 deraadt 994: A serious bug in isakmpd(8) policy handling wherein
995: policy verification could be completely bypassed in isakmpd.
996: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 997: <li><a href="errata27.html#uselogin">June 6, 2000:
1.132 deraadt 998: The non-default flag UseLogin in <b>/etc/sshd_config</b> is broken,
999: should not be used, and results in security problems on
1000: other operating systems.</a>
1.294 david 1001: <li><a href="errata27.html#bridge">May 26, 2000:
1.129 deraadt 1002: The bridge(4) <i>learning</i> flag may be bypassed.
1.128 deraadt 1003: (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 1004: <li><a href="errata27.html#ipf">May 25, 2000:
1.127 kjell 1005: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
1006: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1007:
1.124 deraadt 1008: </ul>
1009:
1010: <p>
1011: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1012: <a name="26"></a>
1.119 deraadt 1013:
1.294 david 1014: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.119 deraadt 1015: These are the OpenBSD 2.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 1016: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.119 deraadt 1017: OpenBSD 2.5 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.6.
1018:
1019: <p>
1020: <ul>
1.294 david 1021: <li><a href="errata26.html#semconfig">May 26, 2000:
1.130 deraadt 1022: SYSV semaphore support contained an undocumented system call
1.131 deraadt 1023: which could wedge semaphore-using processes from exiting. (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 1024: <li><a href="errata26.html#ipf">May 25, 2000:
1.127 kjell 1025: Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
1026: in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1.294 david 1027: <li><a href="errata26.html#xlockmore">May 25, 2000:
1.125 deraadt 1028: xlockmore has a bug which a localhost attacker can use to gain
1029: access to the encrypted root password hash (which is normally
1.245 miod 1030: encoded using blowfish</a> (see
1.294 david 1031: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&sektion=3">
1.125 deraadt 1032: crypt(3)</a>)
1.245 miod 1033: (patch included).
1.294 david 1034: <li><a href="errata26.html#procfs">Jan 20, 2000:
1.123 deraadt 1035: Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are
1036: vulnerable to a very tricky exploit. procfs is not
1037: mounted by default.
1038: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1039: <li><a href="errata26.html#sendmail">Dec 4, 1999:
1.296 david 1040: Sendmail permitted any user to cause an aliases file wrap,
1.190 mpech 1041: thus exposing the system to a race where the aliases file
1042: did not exist.
1.119 deraadt 1043: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1044: <li><a href="errata26.html#poll">Dec 4, 1999:
1.190 mpech 1045: Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.</a>
1.294 david 1046: <li><a href="errata26.html#sslUSA">Dec 2, 1999:
1.120 deraadt 1047: A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
1048: USA version of libssl, is possibly exploitable in
1049: httpd, ssh, or isakmpd, if SSL/RSA features are enabled.
1.124 deraadt 1050: (patch included).<br></a>
1051: <strong>Update:</strong> Turns out that this was not exploitable
1052: in any of the software included in OpenBSD 2.6.
1.294 david 1053: <li><a href="errata26.html#ifmedia">Nov 9, 1999:
1.190 mpech 1054: Any user could change interface media configurations, resulting in
1055: a localhost denial of service attack.
1.121 deraadt 1056: (patch included).</a>
1.119 deraadt 1057: </ul>
1058:
1059: <p>
1060: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1061: <a name="25"></a>
1.106 deraadt 1062:
1.294 david 1063: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.93 deraadt 1064: These are the OpenBSD 2.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 1065: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.93 deraadt 1066: OpenBSD 2.4 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.5.
1067:
1.96 deraadt 1068: <p>
1.104 deraadt 1069: <ul>
1.294 david 1070: <li><a href="errata25.html#cron">Aug 30, 1999:
1.103 deraadt 1071: In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the
1072: fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.
1073: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1074: <li><a href="errata25.html#miscfs">Aug 12, 1999: The procfs and fdescfs
1.101 deraadt 1075: filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset
1076: in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
1077: enabled by default). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1078: <li><a href="errata25.html#profil">Aug 9, 1999: Stop profiling (see profil(2))
1.100 deraadt 1079: when we execve() a new process. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1080: <li><a href="errata25.html#ipsec_in_use">Aug 6, 1999: Packets that should have
1.98 deraadt 1081: been handled by IPsec may be transmitted as cleartext.
1082: PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
1083: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1084: <li><a href="errata25.html#rc">Aug 5, 1999: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for
1.97 deraadt 1085: motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir
1086: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1087: <li><a href="errata25.html#chflags">Jul 30, 1999: Do not permit regular
1.95 deraadt 1088: users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or block devices
1089: which they may currently be the owner of (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1090: <li><a href="errata25.html#nroff">Jul 27, 1999: Cause groff(1) to be invoked
1.95 deraadt 1091: with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1) (patch included).</a>
1.93 deraadt 1092: </ul>
1093:
1.106 deraadt 1094: <p>
1095: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1096: <a name="24"></a>
1.235 miod 1097:
1.294 david 1098: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.75 deraadt 1099: These are the OpenBSD 2.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 1100: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.75 deraadt 1101: OpenBSD 2.3 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.4.
1102:
1.96 deraadt 1103: <p>
1.75 deraadt 1104: <ul>
1.294 david 1105: <li><a href="errata24.html#poll">Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs
1.91 deraadt 1106: to be constrained, to avoid kvm starvation (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1107: <li><a href="errata24.html#tss">Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops
1.91 deraadt 1108: another kernel crash case caused by the <strong>crashme</strong>
1109: program (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1110: <li><a href="errata24.html#nlink">Feb 25, 1999: An unbounded increment on the
1.90 deraadt 1111: nlink value in FFS and EXT2FS filesystems can cause a system crash.
1.89 deraadt 1112: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1113: <li><a href="errata24.html#ping">Feb 23, 1999: Yet another buffer overflow
1.88 deraadt 1114: existed in ping(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1115: <li><a href="errata24.html#ipqrace">Feb 19, 1999: ipintr() had a race in use of
1.87 deraadt 1116: the ipq, which could permit an attacker to cause a crash.
1117: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1118: <li><a href="errata24.html#accept">Feb 17, 1999: A race condition in the
1.86 deraadt 1119: kernel between accept(2) and select(2) could permit an attacker
1120: to hang sockets from remote.
1121: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1122: <li><a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">Feb 17, 1999: IP fragment assembly can
1.85 deraadt 1123: bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
1124: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1125: <li><a href="errata24.html#trctrap">Feb 12, 1999: i386 T_TRCTRAP handling and
1.84 deraadt 1126: DDB interacted to possibly cause a crash.
1127: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1128: <li><a href="errata24.html#rst">Feb 11, 1999: TCP/IP RST handling was sloppy.
1.83 deraadt 1129: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1130: <li><a href="errata24.html#bootpd">Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81 deraadt 1131: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1132: <li><a href="errata24.html#termcap">Nov 19, 1998: There is a possibly locally
1.82 deraadt 1133: exploitable problem relating to environment variables in termcap
1134: and curses. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1135: <li><a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78 deraadt 1136: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.75 deraadt 1137: </ul>
1138:
1.106 deraadt 1139: <p>
1140: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1141: <a name="23"></a>
1.235 miod 1142:
1.294 david 1143: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.73 deraadt 1144: These are the OpenBSD 2.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294 david 1145: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. Obviously, all the
1.73 deraadt 1146: OpenBSD 2.2 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.3.
1.53 matthieu 1147:
1.96 deraadt 1148: <p>
1.53 matthieu 1149: <ul>
1.294 david 1150: <li><a href="errata23.html#bootpd">Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81 deraadt 1151: problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1152: <li><a href="errata23.html#tcpfix">Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78 deraadt 1153: bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1154: <li><a href="errata23.html#resolver">August 31, 1998: A benign looking resolver
1.190 mpech 1155: buffer overflow bug was re-introduced accidentally (patches included).</a>
1.294 david 1156: <li><a href="errata23.html#chpass">Aug 2, 1998:
1.190 mpech 1157: chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
1158: attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.</a>
1.294 david 1159: <li><a href="errata23.html#inetd">July 15, 1998: Inetd had a file descriptor leak.</a>
1160: <li><a href="errata23.html#fdalloc">Jul 2, 1998: setuid and setgid processes
1.72 deraadt 1161: should not be executed with fd slots 0, 1, or 2 free.
1162: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1163: <li><a href="errata23.html#xlib">June 6, 1998: Further problems with the X
1.71 deraadt 1164: libraries (patches included).</a>
1.294 david 1165: <li><a href="errata23.html#kill">May 17, 1998: kill(2) of setuid/setgid target
1.66 deraadt 1166: processes too permissive (4th revision patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1167: <li><a href="errata23.html#immutable">May 11, 1998: mmap() permits partial bypassing
1.60 deraadt 1168: of immutable and append-only file flags. (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1169: <li><a href="errata23.html#ipsec">May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC packets
1.190 mpech 1170: if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1171: <li><a href="errata23.html#xterm-xaw">May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm and Xaw
1.58 deraadt 1172: (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.53 matthieu 1173: </ul>
1.9 deraadt 1174:
1.106 deraadt 1175: <p>
1176: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1177: <a name="22"></a>
1.235 miod 1178:
1.294 david 1179: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.45 deraadt 1180: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.294 david 1181: in <a href="23.html">OpenBSD 2.3</a>. Some of these problems
1.45 deraadt 1182: still exist in other operating systems. (The supplied patches are for
1183: OpenBSD 2.2; they may or may not work on OpenBSD 2.1).
1.9 deraadt 1184:
1.96 deraadt 1185: <p>
1.9 deraadt 1186: <ul>
1.294 david 1187: <li><a href="errata22.html#ipsec">May 5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC
1.72 deraadt 1188: packets if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1189: <li><a href="errata22.html#xterm-xaw">May 1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm
1.72 deraadt 1190: and Xaw (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1191: <li><a href="errata22.html#uucpd">Apr 22, 1998: Buffer overflow in uucpd
1.72 deraadt 1192: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1193: <li><a href="errata22.html#rmjob">Apr 22, 1998: Buffer mismanagement in lprm
1.72 deraadt 1194: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1195: <li><a href="errata22.html#ping">Mar 31, 1998: Overflow in ping -R (patch included).</a>
1196: <li><a href="errata22.html#named">Mar 30, 1998: Overflow in named fake-iquery
1.59 deraadt 1197: (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1198: <li><a href="errata22.html#mountd">Mar 2, 1998: Accidental NFS filesystem
1.72 deraadt 1199: export (patch included).</a>
1.112 philen 1200: <li><a href="advisories/mmap.txt">Feb 26, 1998: Read-write mmap() flaw.</a>
1.294 david 1201: Revision 3 of the patch is available <a href="errata22.html#mmap">here</a>
1.112 philen 1202: <li><a href="advisories/sourceroute.txt">Feb 19, 1998: Sourcerouted Packet
1.59 deraadt 1203: Acceptance.</a>
1.294 david 1204: A patch is available <a href="errata22.html#sourceroute">here</a>.
1205: <li><a href="errata22.html#ruserok">Feb 13, 1998: Setuid coredump & Ruserok()
1.72 deraadt 1206: flaw (patch included).</a>
1.294 david 1207: <li><a href="errata22.html#ldso">Feb 9, 1998: MIPS ld.so flaw (patch included).</a>
1.1 deraadt 1208: </ul>
1209:
1.106 deraadt 1210: <p>
1211: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1212: <a name="21"></a>
1.235 miod 1213:
1.294 david 1214: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.52 deraadt 1215: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.294 david 1216: in <a href="22.html">OpenBSD 2.2</a>. Some of these problems still
1.52 deraadt 1217: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.1, we
1218: would strongly recommend an upgrade to the newest release, as this
1219: patch list only attempts at fixing the most important security
1220: problems. In particular, OpenBSD 2.2 fixes numerous localhost
1221: security problems. Many of those problems were solved in ways which
1222: make it hard for us to provide patches).
1223:
1.96 deraadt 1224: <p>
1.52 deraadt 1225: <ul>
1.112 philen 1226: <li><a href="advisories/signals.txt">Sep 15, 1997: Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
1227: <li><a href="advisories/rfork.txt">Aug 2, 1997: Rfork() system call flaw
1.59 deraadt 1228: (patch included)</a>
1.112 philen 1229: <li><a href="advisories/procfs.txt">Jun 24, 1997: Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
1.52 deraadt 1230: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 1231:
1.106 deraadt 1232: <p>
1233: <li>
1.288 matthieu 1234: <a name="20"></a>
1.235 miod 1235:
1.294 david 1236: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.99 deraadt 1237: These are the OpenBSD 2.0 advisories. All these problems are solved
1.294 david 1238: in <a href="21.html">OpenBSD 2.1</a>. Some of these problems still
1.99 deraadt 1239: exist in other operating systems. (If you are running OpenBSD 2.0, we
1240: commend you for being there back in the old days!, but you're really
1241: missing out if you don't install a new version!)
1242:
1243: <p>
1244: <ul>
1.112 philen 1245: <li><a href="advisories/res_random.txt">April 22, 1997: Predictable IDs in the
1.99 deraadt 1246: resolver (patch included)</a>
1247: <li>Many others... if people can hunt them down, please let me know
1248: and we'll put them up here.
1249: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 1250: <p>
1.106 deraadt 1251:
1.288 matthieu 1252: <a name="watching"></a>
1.294 david 1253: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Watching our Changes</font></h3><p>
1.106 deraadt 1254:
1.21 deraadt 1255: Since we take a proactive stance with security, we are continually
1256: finding and fixing new security problems. Not all of these problems
1.80 espie 1257: get widely reported because (as stated earlier) many of them are not
1.45 deraadt 1258: confirmed to be exploitable; many simple bugs we fix do turn out to
1259: have security consequences we could not predict. We do not have the
1260: time resources to make these changes available in the above format.<p>
1.21 deraadt 1261:
1262: Thus there are usually minor security fixes in the current source code
1263: beyond the previous major OpenBSD release. We make a limited
1.45 deraadt 1264: guarantee that these problems are of minimal impact and unproven
1.44 ian 1265: exploitability. If we discover that a problem definitely matters for
1.45 deraadt 1266: security, patches will show up here <strong>VERY</strong> quickly.<p>
1.21 deraadt 1267:
1.45 deraadt 1268: People who are really concerned with security can do a number of
1269: things:<p>
1.21 deraadt 1270:
1271: <ul>
1272: <li>If you understand security issues, watch our
1.294 david 1273: <a href="mail.html">source-changes mailing list</a> and keep an
1.23 deraadt 1274: eye out for things which appear security related. Since
1.21 deraadt 1275: exploitability is not proven for many of the fixes we make,
1276: do not expect the relevant commit message to say "SECURITY FIX!".
1277: If a problem is proven and serious, a patch will be available
1278: here very shortly after.
1.161 horacio 1279: <li>In addition to source changes, you can watch our <a href="mail.html">
1.160 ericj 1280: security-announce mailing list</a> which will notify you for every
1.186 ian 1281: security related item that the OpenBSD team deems as a possible threat,
1.160 ericj 1282: and instruct you on how to patch the problem.
1.21 deraadt 1283: <li>Track our current source code tree, and teach yourself how to do a
1.29 deraadt 1284: complete system build from time to time (read /usr/src/Makefile
1285: carefully). Users can make the assumption that the current
1286: source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.
1.45 deraadt 1287: However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;
1.265 miod 1288: it is nearly 600MB of source code, and problems do occur as we
1.45 deraadt 1289: transition between major releases.
1.115 ericj 1290: <li>Install a binary snapshot for your
1.80 espie 1291: architecture, which are made available fairly often. For
1.29 deraadt 1292: instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.
1.21 deraadt 1293: </ul>
1294:
1.9 deraadt 1295: <p>
1.288 matthieu 1296: <a name="reporting"></a>
1.294 david 1297: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Reporting problems</font></h3><p>
1.3 deraadt 1298:
1.5 deraadt 1299: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.294 david 1300: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
1.7 deraadt 1301: <br>
1.5 deraadt 1302: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
1.112 philen 1303: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href="advisories/pgpkey.txt">pgp key</a>.
1.5 deraadt 1304:
1.107 deraadt 1305: <p>
1.288 matthieu 1306: <a name="papers"></a>
1.294 david 1307: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.107 deraadt 1308:
1309: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about security
1310: related changes they have done in OpenBSD. The postscript versions of these
1.108 deraadt 1311: documents are available as follows.<p>
1.107 deraadt 1312:
1313: <ul>
1.113 deraadt 1314: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.294 david 1315: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1316: by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>,
1317: <a href="mailto:dm@openbsd.org">David Mazieres</a>.<br>
1318: <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1319: <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1320: <p>
1321: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.294 david 1322: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1323: by <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>,
1324: <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
1325: <a href="mailto:art@openbsd.org">Artur Grabowski</a>,
1326: <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
1327: <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1328: <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1329: <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1330: <p>
1331: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.294 david 1332: <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
1333: by <a href="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">Todd C. Miller</a>,
1334: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
1335: <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1336: <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113 deraadt 1337: <p>
1.118 deraadt 1338: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.294 david 1339: <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
1340: by <a href="mailto:beck@openbsd.org">Bob Beck</a>.<br>
1341: <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
1342: <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.118 deraadt 1343: <p>
1.153 jufi 1344: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.294 david 1345: <a href="events.html#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>,
1346: <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
1347: <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
1348: <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.142 deraadt 1349: <p>
1.107 deraadt 1350: </ul>
1.294 david 1351: </ul>
1.106 deraadt 1352:
1.2 deraadt 1353: <hr>
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1355: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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