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1.106     deraadt    18: <p>
1.294     david      19: <h2><font color="#e00000">Security</font></h2>
                     20: <hr>
1.1       deraadt    21:
1.114     philen     22: <table width="100%">
                     23: <tr>
                     24: <td colspan="2">
                     25: <strong>Index</strong>
                     26: </td>
                     27: </tr>
                     28: <tr>
                     29: <td valign="top">
1.294     david      30: <a href="#goals">Security goals of the Project</a>.<br>
                     31: <a href="#disclosure">Full Disclosure policy</a>.<br>
                     32: <a href="#process">Source code auditing process</a>.<br>
                     33: <a href="#default">"Secure by Default"</a>.<br>
                     34: <a href="#crypto">Use of Cryptography</a>.<br>
                     35: <p>
                     36: <a href="#watching">Watching changes</a>.<br>
                     37: <a href="#reporting">Reporting security issues</a>.<br>
                     38: <a href="#papers">Further Reading</a><br>
1.106     deraadt    39: <p>
1.114     philen     40: </td>
                     41: <td valign="top">
1.225     deraadt    42: For security advisories for specific releases, click below:<br>
                     43: <a href="#20">2.0</a>,
                     44: <a href="#21">2.1</a>,
                     45: <a href="#22">2.2</a>,
                     46: <a href="#23">2.3</a>,
                     47: <a href="#24">2.4</a>,
                     48: <a href="#25">2.5</a>,
                     49: <a href="#26">2.6</a>,
                     50: <a href="#27">2.7</a>,
                     51: <a href="#28">2.8</a>,
                     52: <a href="#29">2.9</a>,
                     53: <a href="#30">3.0</a>,
                     54: <a href="#31">3.1</a>,
1.246     deraadt    55: <a href="#32">3.2</a>,
1.261     david      56: <a href="#33">3.3</a>,
1.280     david      57: <a href="#34">3.4</a>,
1.301     miod       58: <a href="#35">3.5</a>,
1.312     david      59: <a href="#36">3.6</a>,
1.318     deraadt    60: <a href="#37">3.7</a>,
1.321     brad       61: <a href="#38">3.8</a>,
1.334     brad       62: <a href="#39">3.9</a>,
                     63: <a href="#40">4.0</a>.
1.346     matthieu   64: <a href="#41">4.1</a>.
1.114     philen     65: </td>
                     66: </tr>
                     67: </table>
1.56      deraadt    68: <hr>
                     69:
1.294     david      70: <a name="goals"></a>
1.278     deraadt    71: <ul>
1.294     david      72: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Goal</font></h3><p>
1.22      deraadt    73:
1.14      deraadt    74: OpenBSD believes in strong security.  Our aspiration is to be NUMBER
1.22      deraadt    75: ONE in the industry for security (if we are not already there).  Our
                     76: open software development model permits us to take a more
                     77: uncompromising view towards increased security than Sun, SGI, IBM, HP,
                     78: or other vendors are able to.  We can make changes the vendors would
1.27      deraadt    79: not make.  Also, since OpenBSD is exported with <a href=crypto.html>
1.45      deraadt    80: cryptography</a>, we are able to take cryptographic approaches towards
                     81: fixing security problems.<p>
1.18      deraadt    82:
1.288     matthieu   83: <a name="disclosure"></a>
1.294     david      84: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Full Disclosure</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt    85:
1.45      deraadt    86: Like many readers of the
1.196     jufi       87: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">
1.18      deraadt    88: BUGTRAQ mailing list</a>,
1.106     deraadt    89: we believe in full disclosure of security problems.  In the
                     90: operating system arena, we were probably the first to embrace
                     91: the concept.  Many vendors, even of free software, still try
                     92: to hide issues from their users.<p>
                     93:
                     94: Security information moves very fast in cracker circles.  On the other
                     95: hand, our experience is that coding and releasing of proper security
                     96: fixes typically requires about an hour of work -- very fast fix
                     97: turnaround is possible.  Thus we think that full disclosure helps the
                     98: people who really care about security.<p>
                     99:
1.288     matthieu  100: <a name="process"></a>
1.294     david     101: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Audit Process</font></h3><p>
1.15      deraadt   102:
1.12      deraadt   103: Our security auditing team typically has between six and twelve
1.45      deraadt   104: members who continue to search for and fix new security holes.  We
                    105: have been auditing since the summer of 1996.  The process we follow to
                    106: increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of
1.106     deraadt   107: every critical software component.  We are not so much looking for
                    108: security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if
1.138     deraadt   109: years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security
1.106     deraadt   110: issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the
                    111: better.  Flaws have been found in just about every area of the system.
                    112: Entire new classes of security problems have been found during our
                    113: audit, and often source code which had been audited earlier needs
                    114: re-auditing with these new flaws in mind.  Code often gets audited
                    115: multiple times, and by multiple people with different auditing
                    116: skills.<p>
1.12      deraadt   117:
1.94      deraadt   118: Some members of our security auditing team worked for Secure Networks,
                    119: the company that made the industry's premier network security scanning
                    120: software package Ballista (Secure Networks got purchased by Network
                    121: Associates, Ballista got renamed to Cybercop Scanner, and well...)
                    122: That company did a lot of security research, and thus fit in well
1.106     deraadt   123: with the OpenBSD stance.  OpenBSD passed Ballista's tests with flying
                    124: colours since day 1.<p>
1.31      deraadt   125:
1.34      deraadt   126: Another facet of our security auditing process is its proactiveness.
1.45      deraadt   127: In most cases we have found that the determination of exploitability
                    128: is not an issue.  During our ongoing auditing process we find many
                    129: bugs, and endeavor to fix them even though exploitability is not
                    130: proven.  We fix the bug, and we move on to find other bugs to fix.  We
                    131: have fixed many simple and obvious careless programming errors in code
                    132: and only months later discovered that the problems were in fact
                    133: exploitable.  (Or, more likely someone on
1.197     jufi      134: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>
1.45      deraadt   135: would report that other operating systems were vulnerable to a `newly
                    136: discovered problem', and then it would be discovered that OpenBSD had
                    137: been fixed in a previous release).  In other cases we have been saved
                    138: from full exploitability of complex step-by-step attacks because we
                    139: had fixed one of the intermediate steps.  An example of where we
1.94      deraadt   140: managed such a success is the lpd advisory that Secure Networks put out.
                    141: <p>
1.29      deraadt   142:
1.288     matthieu  143: <a name="newtech"></a>
1.294     david     144: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">New Technologies</font></h3><p>
1.278     deraadt   145:
                    146: As we audit source code, we often invent new ways of solving problems.
                    147: Sometimes these ideas have been used before in some random application
                    148: written somewhere, but perhaps not taken to the degree that we do.
                    149: <p>
                    150:
                    151: <ul>
                    152:   <li>strlcpy() and strlcat()
                    153:   <li>Memory protection purify
                    154:     <ul>
                    155:     <li>W^X
                    156:     <li>.rodata segment
                    157:     <li>Guard pages
                    158:     <li>Randomized malloc()
                    159:     <li>Randomized mmap()
                    160:     <li>atexit() and stdio protection
                    161:     </ul>
1.295     otto      162:   <li>Privilege separation
1.278     deraadt   163:   <li>Privilege revocation
                    164:   <li>Chroot jailing
                    165:   <li>New uids
                    166:   <li>ProPolice
                    167:   <li>... and others
                    168: </ul>
                    169: <p>
                    170:
1.294     david     171: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">The Reward</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   172:
1.45      deraadt   173: Our proactive auditing process has really paid off.  Statements like
1.35      deraadt   174: ``This problem was fixed in OpenBSD about 6 months ago'' have become
1.45      deraadt   175: commonplace in security forums like
1.197     jufi      176: <a href="http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1">BUGTRAQ</a>.<p>
1.35      deraadt   177:
1.45      deraadt   178: The most intense part of our security auditing happened immediately
1.80      espie     179: before the OpenBSD 2.0 release and during the 2.0-&gt;2.1 transition,
1.45      deraadt   180: over the last third of 1996 and first half of 1997.  Thousands (yes,
                    181: thousands) of security issues were fixed rapidly over this year-long
                    182: period; bugs like the standard buffer overflows, protocol
                    183: implementation weaknesses, information gathering, and filesystem
                    184: races.  Hence most of the security problems that we encountered were
                    185: fixed before our 2.1 release, and then a far smaller number needed
                    186: fixing for our 2.2 release.  We do not find as many problems anymore,
                    187: it is simply a case of diminishing returns.  Recently the security
                    188: problems we find and fix tend to be significantly more obscure or
                    189: complicated.  Still we will persist for a number of reasons:<p>
1.36      deraadt   190:
1.35      deraadt   191: <ul>
1.45      deraadt   192: <li>Occasionally we find a simple problem we missed earlier. Doh!
1.35      deraadt   193: <li>Security is like an arms race; the best attackers will continue
1.45      deraadt   194:        to search for more complicated exploits, so we will too.
                    195: <li>Finding and fixing subtle flaws in complicated software is
                    196:        a lot of fun.
1.35      deraadt   197: </ul>
1.106     deraadt   198: <p>
1.15      deraadt   199:
1.14      deraadt   200: The auditing process is not over yet, and as you can see we continue
1.28      deraadt   201: to find and fix new security flaws.<p>
1.12      deraadt   202:
1.288     matthieu  203: <a name="default"></a>
1.294     david     204: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">"Secure by Default"</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   205:
                    206: To ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security
                    207: experts overnight (a viewpoint which other vendors seem to have), we
                    208: ship the operating system in a Secure by Default mode.  All non-essential
                    209: services are disabled.  As the user/administrator becomes more familiar
                    210: with the system, he will discover that he has to enable daemons and other
                    211: parts of the system.  During the process of learning how to enable a new
                    212: service, the novice is more likely to learn of security considerations.<p>
                    213:
                    214: This is in stark contrast to the increasing number of systems that
                    215: ship with NFS, mountd, web servers, and various other services enabled
                    216: by default, creating instantaneous security problems for their users
                    217: within minutes after their first install.<p>
                    218:
1.288     matthieu  219: <a name="crypto"></a>
1.294     david     220: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Cryptography</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   221:
                    222: And of course, since the OpenBSD project is based in Canada, it is possible
                    223: for us to integrate cryptography.  For more information, read the page
1.116     deraadt   224: outlining <a href=crypto.html>what we have done with cryptography</a>.</p>
1.106     deraadt   225:
1.294     david     226: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Advisories</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt   227:
                    228: <li>
1.346     matthieu  229: <a name="41"></a>
                    230:
                    231: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 4.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    232: These are the OpenBSD 4.1 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    233: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
                    234: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
                    235:
                    236: <p>
                    237: <ul>
1.347   ! deraadt   238: <li><a href="errata41.html#009_file">Jul 9, 2007:
        !           239:        Fix possible heap overflow in file(1).</a>
1.346     matthieu  240: <li><a href="errata41.html#005_route6">Apr 27, 2007:
                    241:        IPv6 type 0 route headers can be used to mount a DoS attack
                    242:        against hosts and networks.</a>
                    243: <li><a href="errata41.html#004_xorg">Apr 27, 2007:
                    244:        Multiple vulnerabilities in X.Org.</a>
                    245: <li><a href="errata41.html#001_mbuf">Apr 27, 2007:
                    246:        Incorrect mbuf handling for ICMP6 packets.</a>
                    247: </ul>
                    248:
                    249: <li>
1.334     brad      250: <a name="40"></a>
                    251: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 4.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    252: These are the OpenBSD 4.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    253: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
                    254: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
                    255:
                    256: <p>
                    257: <ul>
1.347   ! deraadt   258: <li><a href="errata40.html#015_file">Jul 9, 2007:
        !           259:        Fix possible heap overflow in file(1).</a>
1.343     deraadt   260: <li><a href="errata40.html#012_route6">Apr 23, 2007:
                    261:        IPv6 type 0 route headers can be used to mount a DoS attack
1.344     deraadt   262:        against hosts and networks.</a>
1.342     mbalmer   263: <li><a href="errata40.html#011_xorg">Apr 4, 2007:
                    264:        Multiple vulnerabilities in X.Org.</a>
1.340     deraadt   265: <li><a href="errata40.html#m_dup1">Mar 7, 2007:
                    266:        Incorrect mbuf handling for ICMP6 packets.</a>
1.339     deraadt   267: <li><a href="errata40.html#agp">Jan 3, 2007:
1.338     miod      268:        Insufficient validation in vga(4) may allow an attacker to gain
                    269:        root privileges on some i386 systems.</a>
1.339     deraadt   270: <li><a href="errata40.html#ldso">Nov 19, 2006:
1.337     deraadt   271:        ld.so(1) fails to properly sanitize the environment.</a>
1.339     deraadt   272: <li><a href="errata40.html#systrace">Nov 4, 2006:
1.334     brad      273:        Fix for an integer overflow in systrace(4)'s STRIOCREPLACE support,
                    274:        found by Chris Evans.</a>
1.339     deraadt   275: <li><a href="errata40.html#openssl">Nov 4, 2006:
1.334     brad      276:        Several problems have been found in OpenSSL.</a>
1.339     deraadt   277: <li><a href="errata40.html#httpd">Nov 4, 2006:
1.334     brad      278:        httpd(8) does not sanitize the Expect header from an HTTP request
                    279:        when it is reflected back in an error message, which might allow
                    280:        cross-site scripting (XSS) style attacks.</a>
                    281: </ul>
                    282:
                    283: <li>
1.321     brad      284: <a name="39"></a>
                    285:
                    286: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    287: These are the OpenBSD 3.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    288: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
                    289: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
                    290:
                    291: <p>
                    292: <ul>
1.343     deraadt   293: <li><a href="errata39.html#022_route6">Apr 23, 2007:
                    294:        IPv6 type 0 route headers can be used to mount a DoS attack
1.344     deraadt   295:        against hosts and networks.</a>
1.342     mbalmer   296: <li><a href="errata39.html#021_xorg">Apr 4, 2007:
                    297:        Multiple vulnerabilities in X.Org.</a>
1.340     deraadt   298: <li><a href="errata39.html#m_dup1">Mar 7, 2007:
                    299:        Incorrect mbuf handling for ICMP6 packets.</a>
1.338     miod      300: <li><a href="errata39.html#agp">Jan 3, 2007:
                    301:        Insufficient validation in vga(4) may allow an attacker to gain
                    302:        root privileges on some i386 systems.</a>
1.336     brad      303: <li><a href="errata39.html#ldso">Nov 19, 2006:
1.337     deraadt   304:        ld.so(1) fails to properly sanitize the environment.</a>
1.333     deraadt   305: <li><a href="errata39.html#ssh">Oct 12, 2006:
1.332     brad      306:        Fix 2 security bugs found in OpenSSH.</a>
1.333     deraadt   307: <li><a href="errata39.html#systrace">Oct 7, 2006:
1.331     brad      308:        Fix for an integer overflow in systrace(4)'s STRIOCREPLACE support,
1.330     brad      309:        found by Chris Evans.</a>
1.333     deraadt   310: <li><a href="errata39.html#openssl2">Oct 7, 2006:
1.330     brad      311:        Several problems have been found in OpenSSL.</a>
1.333     deraadt   312: <li><a href="errata39.html#httpd2">Oct 7, 2006:
1.330     brad      313:        httpd(8) does not sanitize the Expect header from an HTTP request
                    314:        when it is reflected back in an error message, which might allow
                    315:        cross-site scripting (XSS) style attacks.</a>
1.333     deraadt   316: <li><a href="errata39.html#openssl">Sep 8, 2006:
1.329     brad      317:        Due to incorrect PKCS#1 v1.5 padding validation in OpenSSL, it is
                    318:        possible for an attacker to construct an invalid signature which
                    319:        OpenSSL would accept as a valid PKCS#1 v1.5 signature.</a>
1.333     deraadt   320: <li><a href="errata39.html#bind">Sep 8, 2006:
1.328     brad      321:        Two Denial of Service issues have been found with BIND.</a>
1.333     deraadt   322: <li><a href="errata39.html#sppp">Sep 2, 2006:
1.327     brad      323:        Due to the failure to correctly validate LCP configuration option
                    324:        lengths, it is possible for an attacker to send LCP packets via an
                    325:        sppp(4) connection causing the kernel to panic.</a>
1.333     deraadt   326: <li><a href="errata39.html#isakmpd">Aug 25, 2006:
1.326     brad      327:        A problem in isakmpd(8) caused IPsec to run partly without replay
                    328:        protection.</a>
1.333     deraadt   329: <li><a href="errata39.html#sem">Aug 25, 2006:
1.326     brad      330:        It is possible to cause the kernel to panic when more than the default
                    331:        number of sempahores have been allocated.</a>
1.333     deraadt   332: <li><a href="errata39.html#dhcpd">Aug 25, 2006:
1.326     brad      333:        Due to an off-by-one error in dhcpd(8) it is possible to cause dhcpd(8)
                    334:        to exit by sending a DHCPDISCOVER packet with a 32-byte client identifier
                    335:        option.</a>
1.333     deraadt   336: <li><a href="errata39.html#sendmail3">Aug 25, 2006:
1.326     brad      337:        A potential denial of service problem has been found in sendmail.</a>
1.333     deraadt   338: <li><a href="errata39.html#httpd">Jul 30, 2006:
1.325     brad      339:        httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite has a potentially exploitable off-by-one buffer
                    340:        overflow.</a>
1.333     deraadt   341: <li><a href="errata39.html#sendmail2">Jun 15, 2006:
1.324     brad      342:        A potential denial of service problem has been found in sendmail.</a>
1.333     deraadt   343: <li><a href="errata39.html#xorg">May 2, 2006:
1.322     brad      344:        A buffer overflow exists in the Render extension of the X server.</a>
1.333     deraadt   345: <li><a href="errata39.html#sendmail">Mar 25, 2006:
1.321     brad      346:        A race condition has been reported to exist in the handling by sendmail
                    347:        of asynchronous signals.</a>
                    348: </ul>
                    349:
1.338     miod      350: <p>
                    351: OpenBSD 3.8 and earlier releases are not supported anymore. The following
                    352: paragraphs only list advisories issued while they were maintained; these
                    353: releases are likely to be affected by the advisories for more recent releases.
                    354: <br>
                    355:
1.321     brad      356: <li>
1.318     deraadt   357: <a name="38"></a>
                    358:
                    359: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    360: These are the OpenBSD 3.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
                    361: in <a href=anoncvs.html>OpenBSD current</a> and the
                    362: <a href=stable.html>patch branch</a>.
                    363:
                    364: <p>
                    365: <ul>
1.332     brad      366: <li><a href="errata38.html#ssh2">Oct 12, 2006:
                    367:        Fix 2 security bugs found in OpenSSH.</a>
1.330     brad      368: <li><a href="errata38.html#systrace">Oct 7, 2006:
1.331     brad      369:        Fix for an integer overflow in systrace(4)'s STRIOCREPLACE support,
1.330     brad      370:        found by Chris Evans.</a>
                    371: <li><a href="errata38.html#openssl2">Oct 7, 2006:
                    372:        Several problems have been found in OpenSSL.</a>
                    373: <li><a href="errata38.html#httpd2">Oct 7, 2006:
                    374:        httpd(8) does not sanitize the Expect header from an HTTP request
                    375:        when it is reflected back in an error message, which might allow
                    376:        cross-site scripting (XSS) style attacks.</a>
1.329     brad      377: <li><a href="errata38.html#openssl">Sep 8, 2006:
                    378:        Due to incorrect PKCS#1 v1.5 padding validation in OpenSSL, it is
                    379:        possible for an attacker to construct an invalid signature which
                    380:        OpenSSL would accept as a valid PKCS#1 v1.5 signature.</a>
1.328     brad      381: <li><a href="errata38.html#bind">Sep 8, 2006:
                    382:        Two Denial of Service issues have been found with BIND.</a>
1.327     brad      383: <li><a href="errata38.html#sppp">Sep 2, 2006:
                    384:        Due to the failure to correctly validate LCP configuration option
                    385:        lengths, it is possible for an attacker to send LCP packets via an
                    386:        sppp(4) connection causing the kernel to panic.</a>
1.326     brad      387: <li><a href="errata38.html#isakmpd">Aug 25, 2006:
                    388:        A problem in isakmpd(8) caused IPsec to run partly without replay
                    389:        protection.</a>
                    390: <li><a href="errata38.html#sem">Aug 25, 2006:
                    391:        It is possible to cause the kernel to panic when more than the default
                    392:        number of sempahores have been allocated.</a>
                    393: <li><a href="errata38.html#dhcpd">Aug 25, 2006:
                    394:        Due to an off-by-one error in dhcpd(8) it is possible to cause dhcpd(8)
                    395:        to exit by sending a DHCPDISCOVER packet with a 32-byte client identifier
                    396:        option.</a>
                    397: <li><a href="errata38.html#sendmail3">Aug 25, 2006:
                    398:        A potential denial of service problem has been found in sendmail.</a>
1.325     brad      399: <li><a href="errata38.html#httpd">Jul 30, 2006:
                    400:        httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite has a potentially exploitable off-by-one buffer
                    401:        overflow.</a>
1.324     brad      402: <li><a href="errata38.html#sendmail2">Jun 15, 2006:
                    403:        A potential denial of service problem has been found in sendmail.</a>
1.322     brad      404: <li><a href="errata38.html#xorg">May 2, 2006:
                    405:        A buffer overflow exists in the Render extension of the X server.</a>
1.321     brad      406: <li><a href="errata38.html#sendmail">Mar 25, 2006:
                    407:        A race condition has been reported to exist in the handling by sendmail
                    408:        of asynchronous signals.</a>
                    409: <li><a href="errata38.html#ssh">Feb 12, 2006:
1.320     brad      410:        Josh Bressers has reported a weakness in OpenSSH caused due to the
                    411:        insecure use of the system(3) function in scp(1) when performing copy
                    412:        operations using filenames that are supplied by the user from the
                    413:        command line.</a>
1.321     brad      414: <li><a href="errata38.html#fd">Jan 5, 2006:
1.319     brad      415:        Do not allow users to trick suid programs into re-opening files via
                    416:        /dev/fd.</a>
1.321     brad      417: <li><a href="errata38.html#perl">Jan 5, 2006:
1.319     brad      418:        A buffer overflow has been found in the Perl interpreter with the
                    419:        sprintf function which may be exploitable under certain conditions.</a>
1.318     deraadt   420: </ul>
                    421:
                    422: <li>
1.312     david     423: <a name="37"></a>
                    424:
                    425: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    426: These are the OpenBSD 3.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.323     steven    427: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    428: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.7 is no longer being maintained,
                    429: you should update your machine.
1.312     david     430:
                    431: <p>
                    432: <ul>
1.322     brad      433: <li><a href="errata37.html#xorg">May 2, 2006:
                    434:        A buffer overflow exists in the Render extension of the X server.</a>
1.321     brad      435: <li><a href="errata37.html#sendmail">Mar 25, 2006:
                    436:        A race condition has been reported to exist in the handling by sendmail
                    437:        of asynchronous signals.</a>
1.320     brad      438: <li><a href="errata37.html#ssh">Feb 12, 2006:
                    439:        Josh Bressers has reported a weakness in OpenSSH caused due to the
                    440:        insecure use of the system(3) function in scp(1) when performing copy
                    441:        operations using filenames that are supplied by the user from the
                    442:        command line.</a>
1.319     brad      443: <li><a href="errata37.html#fd">Jan 5, 2006:
                    444:        Do not allow users to trick suid programs into re-opening files via
                    445:        /dev/fd.</a>
                    446: <li><a href="errata37.html#perl">Jan 5, 2006:
                    447:        A buffer overflow has been found in the Perl interpreter with the
                    448:        sprintf function which may be exploitable under certain conditions.</a>
1.318     deraadt   449: <li><a href="errata37.html#libz2">Jul 21, 2005:
1.317     millert   450:        Fix another buffer overflow in the zlib library that may be exploitable.</a>
1.318     deraadt   451: <li><a href="errata37.html#libz">Jul 6, 2005:
1.316     millert   452:        Fix a buffer overflow in the zlib library that may be exploitable.</a>
1.318     deraadt   453: <li><a href="errata37.html#sudo">Jun 20, 2005:
1.316     millert   454:        Fix a race condition in sudo(8) that could allow a user
1.315     millert   455:        to run arbitrary commands.</a>
1.318     deraadt   456: <li><a href="errata37.html#cvs">Jun 7, 2005:
1.313     brad      457:         Fix a buffer overflow, memory leaks, and NULL pointer
                    458:         dereference in cvs(1).</a>
1.312     david     459: </ul>
                    460:
                    461: <li>
1.301     miod      462: <a name="36"></a>
                    463:
                    464: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
                    465: These are the OpenBSD 3.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.323     steven    466: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    467: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.6 is no longer being maintained,
                    468: you should update your machine.
1.301     miod      469:
                    470: <p>
1.302     markus    471: <ul>
1.317     millert   472: <li><a href="errata36.html#libz2">Jul 21, 2005:
                    473:        Fix another buffer overflow in the zlib library that may be exploitable.</a>
1.316     millert   474: <li><a href="errata36.html#libz">Jul 6, 2005:
                    475:        Fix a buffer overflow in the zlib library that may be exploitable.</a>
1.315     millert   476: <li><a href="errata36.html#sudo">Jun 20, 2005:
1.316     millert   477:        Fix a race condition in sudo(8) that could allow a user
1.315     millert   478:        to run arbitrary commands.</a>
1.311     deraadt   479: <li><a href="errata36.html#cvs">Apr 28, 2005:
1.310     brad      480:         Fix a buffer overflow, memory leaks, and NULL pointer
                    481:         dereference in cvs(1).</a>
1.311     deraadt   482: <li><a href="errata36.html#telnet">Mar 30, 2005:
1.309     brad      483:         Due to buffer overflows in telnet(1), a malicious
                    484:         server or man-in-the-middle attack could allow
                    485:         execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of
                    486:         the user invoking telnet(1).</a>
1.311     deraadt   487: <li><a href="errata36.html#copy">Mar 16, 2005:
1.307     brad      488:         More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
                    489:         functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.311     deraadt   490: <li><a href="errata36.html#locore">Feb 28, 2005:
1.306     brad      491:         More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
                    492:         functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.311     deraadt   493: <li><a href="errata36.html#httpd">Jan 12, 2005:
1.304     brad      494:         httpd(8)'s mod_include module fails to properly validate
                    495:         the length of user supplied tag strings prior to copying
1.305     brad      496:         them to a local buffer, causing a buffer overflow.</a>
1.311     deraadt   497: <li><a href="errata36.html#pfkey">Dec 14, 2004:
1.302     markus    498:         On systems running isakmpd(8) it is possible for a local
                    499:         user to cause kernel memory corruption and system panic by
1.303     markus    500:         setting ipsec(4) credentials on a socket.</a>
1.302     markus    501: </ul>
1.301     miod      502:
                    503: <li>
1.288     matthieu  504: <a name="35"></a>
1.279     deraadt   505:
1.294     david     506: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.279     deraadt   507: These are the OpenBSD 3.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.314     miod      508: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    509: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.5 is no longer being maintained,
                    510: you should update your machine.
1.279     deraadt   511:
                    512: <p>
                    513: <ul>
1.310     brad      514: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs4">Apr 28, 2005:
                    515:         Fix a buffer overflow, memory leaks, and NULL pointer
                    516:         dereference in cvs(1).</a>
1.309     brad      517: <li><a href="errata35.html#telnet">Mar 30, 2005:
                    518:         Due to buffer overflows in telnet(1), a malicious
                    519:         server or man-in-the-middle attack could allow
                    520:         execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of
                    521:         the user invoking telnet(1).</a>
1.308     brad      522: <li><a href="errata35.html#copy">Mar 16, 2005:
1.307     brad      523:         More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
                    524:         functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.306     brad      525: <li><a href="errata35.html#locore">Feb 28, 2005:
                    526:         More stringent checking should be done in the copy(9)
                    527:         functions to prevent their misuse.</a>
1.304     brad      528: <li><a href="errata35.html#httpd3">Jan 12, 2005:
                    529:         httpd(8)'s mod_include module fails to properly validate
                    530:         the length of user supplied tag strings prior to copying
1.305     brad      531:         them to a local buffer, causing a buffer overflow.</a>
1.302     markus    532: <li><a href="errata35.html#pfkey">Dec 14, 2004:
                    533:         On systems running isakmpd(8) it is possible for a local
                    534:         user to cause kernel memory corruption and system panic by
1.303     markus    535:         setting ipsec(4) credentials on a socket.</a>
1.301     miod      536: <li><a href="errata35.html#radius">Sep 20, 2004:
1.299     millert   537:        Radius-based authentication is vulnerable to spoofed replies.</a>
1.301     miod      538: <li><a href="errata35.html#xpm">Sep 16, 2004:
1.298     brad      539:        The Xpm library has vulnerabilities when parsing malicious images.</a>
1.301     miod      540: <li><a href="errata35.html#httpd2"> Sep 10, 2004:
1.297     brad      541:        httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite module can be made to write one zero byte in
                    542:        an arbitrary memory position outside of a char array, causing a DoS
                    543:        or possibly buffer overflows.</a>
1.301     miod      544: <li><a href="errata35.html#httpd"> Jun 12, 2004:
1.300     deraadt   545:        Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in httpd(8) / mod_ssl.</a>
1.301     miod      546: <li><a href="errata35.html#isakmpd"> Jun 10, 2004:
1.291     hshoexer  547:        isakmpd(8) still has issues with unauthorized SA deletion,
1.293     brad      548:        an attacker can delete IPsec tunnels at will.</a>
1.301     miod      549: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs3"> Jun 9, 2004:
1.290     millert   550:        Multiple remote vulnerabilities have been found in the cvs(1)
                    551:        server which can be used by CVS clients to crash or execute
1.293     brad      552:        arbitrary code on the server.</a>
1.301     miod      553: <li><a href="errata35.html#kerberos"> May 30, 2004:
1.289     beck      554:        kdc(8) performs inadequate checking of request fields, leading
                    555:        to the possibility of principal impersonation from other
                    556:        Kerberos realms if they are trusted with a cross-realm trust.</a>
1.301     miod      557: <li><a href="errata35.html#xdm"> May 26, 2004:
1.287     matthieu  558:        xdm(1) ignores the requestPort resource and creates a
1.293     brad      559:         listening socket regardless of the setting in xdm-config.</a>
1.301     miod      560: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs2"> May 20, 2004:
1.286     otto      561:        A buffer overflow in the cvs(1) server has been found,
                    562:        which can be used by CVS clients to execute arbitrary code on
1.293     brad      563:        the server.</a>
1.301     miod      564: <li><a href="errata35.html#procfs"> May 13, 2004:
1.282     tedu      565:        Integer overflow problems were found in procfs, allowing
1.293     brad      566:        reading of arbitrary kernel memory.</a>
1.301     miod      567: <li><a href="errata35.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281     otto      568:        Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
                    569:        allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
1.293     brad      570:        repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.279     deraadt   571: </ul>
                    572:
                    573: <p>
                    574: <li>
1.288     matthieu  575: <a name="34"></a>
1.261     david     576:
1.294     david     577: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.261     david     578: These are the OpenBSD 3.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.301     miod      579: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    580: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.4 is no longer being maintained,
                    581: you should update your machine.
1.261     david     582: <p>
                    583: <ul>
1.302     markus    584: <li><a href="errata34.html#pfkey">Dec 14, 2004:
                    585:         On systems running isakmpd(8) it is possible for a local
                    586:         user to cause kernel memory corruption and system panic by
1.303     markus    587:         setting ipsec(4) credentials on a socket.</a>
1.298     brad      588: <li><a href="errata34.html#xpm">Sep 16, 2004:
                    589:        The Xpm library has vulnerabilities when parsing malicious images.</a>
1.297     brad      590: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd4"> Sep 10, 2004:
                    591:        httpd(8)'s mod_rewrite module can be made to write one zero byte in
                    592:        an arbitrary memory position outside of a char array, causing a DoS
                    593:        or possibly buffer overflows.</a>
1.294     david     594: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd3"> Jun 12, 2004:
1.300     deraadt   595:         Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in httpd(8) / mod_ssl.</a>
1.294     david     596: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd3"> Jun 10, 2004:
1.292     brad      597:         isakmpd(8) still has issues with unauthorized SA deletion,
1.293     brad      598:         an attacker can delete IPsec tunnels at will.</a>
1.294     david     599: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs3"> Jun 9, 2004:
1.290     millert   600:        Multiple remote vulnerabilities have been found in the cvs(1)
                    601:        server which can be used by CVS clients to crash or execute
1.293     brad      602:        arbitrary code on the server.</a>
1.294     david     603: <li><a href="errata34.html#kerberos"> May 30, 2004:
1.289     beck      604:        kdc(8) performs inadequate checking of request fields, leading
                    605:        to the possibility of principal impersonation from other
                    606:        Kerberos realms if they are trusted with a cross-realm trust.</a>
1.294     david     607: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs2"> May 20, 2004:
1.286     otto      608:        A buffer overflow in the cvs(1) server has been found,
                    609:        which can be used by CVS clients to execute arbitrary code on
                    610:        the server.</a>
1.294     david     611: <li><a href="errata34.html#procfs"> May 13, 2004:
1.282     tedu      612:        Integer overflow problems were found in procfs, allowing
                    613:        reading of arbitrary kernel memory.</a>
1.294     david     614: <li><a href="errata34.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281     otto      615:        Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
                    616:        allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
                    617:        repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.294     david     618: <li><a href="errata34.html#openssl"> March 17, 2004:
1.277     millert   619:        A missing check for a NULL-pointer dereference may allow a
1.281     otto      620:        remote attacker to crash applications using OpenSSL.</a>
1.294     david     621: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd2"> March 17, 2004:
1.276     brad      622:        Defects in the payload validation and processing functions of
                    623:        isakmpd have been discovered. An attacker could send malformed
                    624:        ISAKMP messages and cause isakmpd to crash or to loop endlessly.</a>
1.294     david     625: <li><a href="errata34.html#httpd2"> March 13, 2004:
1.275     brad      626:        Due to a bug in the parsing of Allow/Deny rules for httpd(8)'s
                    627:        access module, using IP addresses without a netmask on big endian
                    628:        64-bit platforms causes the rules to fail to match.</a>
1.294     david     629: <li><a href="errata34.html#ip6"> February 8, 2004:
1.272     dhartmei  630:        An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists that could be used by an
                    631:        attacker to cause a denial of service attack.</a>
1.294     david     632: <li><a href="errata34.html#sysvshm"> February 5, 2004:
1.271     millert   633:        A reference counting bug in shmat(2) could be used to write to
                    634:        kernel memory under certain circumstances.</a>
1.294     david     635: <li><a href="errata34.html#isakmpd">January 13, 2004:
1.266     brad      636:        Several message handling flaws in isakmpd(8) have been reported
1.271     millert   637:        by Thomas Walpuski.</a>
1.294     david     638: <li><a href="errata34.html#ibcs2">November 17, 2003:
1.264     henning   639:        It may be possible for a local user to overrun the stack in
                    640:        compat_ibcs2(8) and cause a kernel panic.</a>
1.294     david     641: <li><a href="errata34.html#asn1">November 1, 2003:
1.262     margarid  642:        The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
                    643:        allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
                    644:        applications linked with ssl(3).</a>
1.261     david     645: </ul>
                    646:
                    647: <li>
1.288     matthieu  648: <a name="33"></a>
1.246     deraadt   649:
1.294     david     650: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.246     deraadt   651: These are the OpenBSD 3.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david     652: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    653: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.3 is no longer being maintained,
1.284     otto      654: you should update your machine.
1.246     deraadt   655: <p>
                    656: <ul>
1.294     david     657: <li><a href="errata33.html#cvs"> May 5, 2004:
1.281     otto      658:        Pathname validation problems have been found in cvs(1),
                    659:        allowing clients and servers access to files outside the
                    660:        repository or local CVS tree.</a>
1.294     david     661: <li><a href="errata33.html#openssl"> March 17, 2004:
1.277     millert   662:        A missing check for a NULL-pointer dereference may allow a
1.281     otto      663:        remote attacker to crash applications using OpenSSL.</a>
1.294     david     664: <li><a href="errata33.html#isakmpd2"> March 17, 2004:
1.276     brad      665:        Defects in the payload validation and processing functions of
                    666:        isakmpd have been discovered. An attacker could send malformed
                    667:        ISAKMP messages and cause isakmpd to crash or to loop endlessly.</a>
1.294     david     668: <li><a href="errata33.html#httpd2"> March 13, 2004:
1.275     brad      669:        Due to a bug in the parsing of Allow/Deny rules for httpd(8)'s
                    670:        access module, using IP addresses without a netmask on big endian
                    671:        64-bit platforms causes the rules to fail to match.</a>
1.294     david     672: <li><a href="errata33.html#ip6"> February 8, 2004:
1.275     brad      673:        An IPv6 MTU handling problem exists that could be used by an
                    674:        attacker to cause a denial of service attack.</a>
1.294     david     675: <li><a href="errata33.html#sysvshm"> February 5, 2004:
1.271     millert   676:        A reference counting bug in shmat(2) could be used to write to
                    677:        kernel memory under certain circumstances.</a>
1.294     david     678: <li><a href="errata33.html#isakmpd">January 15, 2004:
1.268     brad      679:         Several message handling flaws in isakmpd(8) have been reported
1.271     millert   680:         by Thomas Walpuski.</a>
1.294     david     681: <li><a href="errata33.html#ibcs2">November 17, 2003:
1.264     henning   682:        It may be possible for a local user to execute arbitrary code
                    683:        resulting in escalation of privileges due to a stack overrun
                    684:        in compat_ibcs2(8).</a>
1.294     david     685: <li><a href="errata33.html#asn1">October 1, 2003:
1.257     millert   686:        The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
                    687:        allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
                    688:        applications linked with ssl(3).</a>
1.294     david     689: <li><a href="errata33.html#pfnorm">September 24, 2003:
1.258     beck      690:        Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260     margarid  691:        remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.294     david     692: <li><a href="errata33.html#sendmail">September 17, 2003:
1.256     millert   693:        A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
                    694:        sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     695: <li><a href="errata33.html#sshbuffer">September 16, 2003:
1.255     millert   696:        OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
                    697:        that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.294     david     698: <li><a href="errata33.html#sysvsem">September 10, 2003:
1.254     millert   699:        Root may be able to reduce the security level by taking advantage of
                    700:        an integer overflow when the semaphore limits are made very large.</a>
1.294     david     701: <li><a href="errata33.html#semget">August 20, 2003:
1.252     millert   702:        An improper bounds check in the kernel may allow a local user
                    703:        to panic the kernel.</a>
1.294     david     704: <li><a href="errata33.html#realpath">August 4, 2003:
1.249     millert   705:        An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
                    706:        may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.246     deraadt   707: </ul>
                    708:
1.265     miod      709:
1.247     david     710: <p>
1.246     deraadt   711: <li>
1.288     matthieu  712: <a name="32"></a>
1.224     deraadt   713:
1.294     david     714: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.224     deraadt   715: These are the OpenBSD 3.2 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david     716: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    717: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.2 is no longer being maintained,
1.265     miod      718: you should update your machine.
1.224     deraadt   719: <p>
                    720: <ul>
1.294     david     721: <li><a href="errata32.html#asn1">October 1, 2003:
1.257     millert   722:        The use of certain ASN.1 encodings or malformed public keys may
                    723:        allow an attacker to mount a denial of service attack against
                    724:        applications linked with ssl(3).  This does not affect OpenSSH.</a>
1.294     david     725: <li><a href="errata32.html#pfnorm">September 24, 2003:
1.258     beck      726:        Access of freed memory in pf(4) could be used to
1.260     margarid  727:        remotely panic a machine using scrub rules.</a>
1.294     david     728: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail4">September 17, 2003:
1.256     millert   729:        A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
                    730:        sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     731: <li><a href="errata32.html#sshbuffer">September 16, 2003:
1.255     millert   732:        OpenSSH versions prior to 3.7 contains a buffer management error
                    733:        that is potentially exploitable.</a>
1.294     david     734: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail3">August 25, 2003:
1.253     brad      735:         Fix for a potential security issue in
                    736:         sendmail(8) with respect to DNS maps.</a>
1.294     david     737: <li><a href="errata32.html#realpath">August 4, 2003:
1.249     millert   738:        An off-by-one error exists in the C library function realpath(3)
                    739:        may allow an attacker to gain escalated privileges.</a>
1.294     david     740: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail2">March 31, 2003:
1.244     miod      741:        A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
                    742:        sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     743: <li><a href="errata32.html#kerberos">March 24, 2003:
1.242     millert   744:        A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
                    745:        exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.294     david     746: <li><a href="errata32.html#kpr">March 19, 2003:
1.241     jufi      747:        OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240     miod      748:        designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.294     david     749: <li><a href="errata32.html#blinding">March 18, 2003:
1.239     miod      750:        Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
                    751:        timing attacks.</a>
1.294     david     752: <li><a href="errata32.html#lprm">March 5, 2003:
1.238     millert   753:        A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to elevate
                    754:        privileges to user daemon.</a>.
1.294     david     755: <li><a href="errata32.html#sendmail">March 3, 2003:
1.237     miod      756:        A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
                    757:        sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     758: <li><a href="errata32.html#httpd">February 25, 2003:
1.236     margarid  759:        httpd(8) leaks file inode numbers via ETag header as well as
                    760:        child PIDs in multipart MIME boundary generation. This could
                    761:        lead, for example, to NFS exploitation because it uses inode
                    762:        numbers as part of the file handle.</a>
1.294     david     763: <li><a href="errata32.html#ssl">February 22, 2003:
1.234     margarid  764:        In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
                    765:        a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
                    766:        been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
                    767:        sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.294     david     768: <li><a href="errata32.html#cvs">January 20, 2003:
1.232     millert   769:        A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
                    770:        escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.233     margarid  771:        run as a privileged user.</a>
1.294     david     772: <li><a href="errata32.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230     millert   773:        A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
                    774:        remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294     david     775: <li><a href="errata32.html#pool">November 6, 2002:
1.233     margarid  776:        A logic error in the pool kernel memory allocator could cause
                    777:        memory corruption in low-memory situations, causing the system
                    778:        to crash.</a>
1.294     david     779: <li><a href="errata32.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229     miod      780:        An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
                    781:        arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294     david     782: <li><a href="errata32.html#pfbridge">November 6, 2002:
1.233     margarid  783:        Network bridges running pf with scrubbing enabled could cause
                    784:        mbuf corruption, causing the system to crash.</a>
1.294     david     785: <li><a href="errata32.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.228     miod      786:        A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
                    787:        to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.224     deraadt   788: </ul>
                    789:
1.227     miod      790: <p>
                    791: <li>
1.288     matthieu  792: <a name="31"></a>
1.203     deraadt   793:
1.294     david     794: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.203     deraadt   795: These are the OpenBSD 3.1 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david     796: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    797: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.1 is no longer being maintained,
1.258     beck      798: you should update your machine.
1.203     deraadt   799:
                    800: <p>
                    801: <ul>
1.294     david     802: <li><a href="errata31.html#sendmail2">March 31, 2003:
1.244     miod      803:        A buffer overflow in the address parsing in
                    804:        sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     805: <li><a href="errata31.html#kerberos">March 24, 2003:
1.242     millert   806:        A cryptographic weaknesses in the Kerberos v4 protocol can be
                    807:        exploited on Kerberos v5 as well.</a>
1.294     david     808: <li><a href="errata31.html#kpr">March 19, 2003:
1.241     jufi      809:        OpenSSL is vulnerable to an extension of the ``Bleichenbacher'' attack
1.240     miod      810:        designed by Czech researchers Klima, Pokorny and Rosa.</a>
1.294     david     811: <li><a href="errata31.html#blinding">March 18, 2003:
1.239     miod      812:        Various SSL and TLS operations in OpenSSL are vulnerable to
                    813:        timing attacks.</a>
1.294     david     814: <li><a href="errata31.html#lprm">March 4, 2003:
1.238     millert   815:        A buffer overflow in lprm(1) may allow an attacker to gain
                    816:        root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     817: <li><a href="errata31.html#sendmail">March 3, 2003:
1.237     miod      818:        A buffer overflow in the envelope comments processing in
                    819:        sendmail(8) may allow an attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     820: <li><a href="errata31.html#ssl2">February 23, 2003:
1.235     miod      821:        In ssl(8) an information leak can occur via timing by performing
                    822:        a MAC computation even if incorrect block cipher padding has
                    823:        been found, this is a countermeasure. Also, check for negative
                    824:        sizes, in allocation routines.</a>
1.294     david     825: <li><a href="errata31.html#cvs">January 20, 2003:
1.232     millert   826:        A double free exists in cvs(1) that could lead to privilege
                    827:        escalation for cvs configurations where the cvs command is
1.294     david     828:        run as a privileged user</a>.
                    829: <li><a href="errata31.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230     millert   830:        A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
                    831:        remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294     david     832: <li><a href="errata31.html#kernresource">November 6, 2002:
1.229     miod      833:        Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
                    834:        may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
1.294     david     835: <li><a href="errata31.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229     miod      836:        An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
                    837:        arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294     david     838: <li><a href="errata31.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.226     miod      839:        A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
                    840:        to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294     david     841: <li><a href="errata31.html#kerntime">October 2, 2002:
1.222     jason     842:        Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
                    843:        may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.294     david     844: <li><a href="errata31.html#scarg">August 11, 2002:
1.221     provos    845:        An insufficient boundary check in the select system call
1.220     miod      846:        allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
                    847:        in kernel context.</a>
1.294     david     848: <li><a href="errata31.html#ssl">July 30, 2002:
1.218     miod      849:        Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
                    850:        client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
                    851:        crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
                    852:        exploitable.</a>
1.294     david     853: <li><a href="errata31.html#xdr">July 29, 2002:
1.218     miod      854:        A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
                    855:        possible remote crash.</a>
1.294     david     856: <li><a href="errata31.html#pppd">July 29, 2002:
1.218     miod      857:        A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
                    858:        alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.294     david     859: <li><a href="errata31.html#isakmpd">July 5, 2002:
1.218     miod      860:        Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
                    861:        crash.</a>
1.294     david     862: <li><a href="errata31.html#ktrace">June 27, 2002:
1.215     miod      863:        The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.294     david     864: <li><a href="errata31.html#modssl">June 26, 2002:
1.213     miod      865:        A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214     miod      866:        mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294     david     867: <li><a href="errata31.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212     millert   868:        A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294     david     869: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshd">June 24, 2002:
1.216     deraadt   870:        All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213     miod      871:        input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
                    872:        privilege escalation.</a>
1.294     david     873: <li><a href="errata31.html#httpd">June 19, 2002:
1.211     miod      874:        A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
                    875:        encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.294     david     876: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshbsdauth">May 22, 2002:
1.209     markus    877:         Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups
                    878:         in the password database, it is possible that sshd(8) does
                    879:         ACL checks for the requested user name but uses the password
                    880:         database entry of a different user for authentication.  This
                    881:         means that denied users might authenticate successfully
                    882:         while permitted users could be locked out.</a>
1.294     david     883: <li><a href="errata31.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208     millert   884:        A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
                    885:        protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294     david     886: <li><a href="errata31.html#sudo">April 25, 2002:
1.205     millert   887:        A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294     david     888: <li><a href="errata31.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.205     millert   889:         A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
                    890:         overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
                    891:         or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
                    892:         in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.203     deraadt   893: </ul>
                    894:
1.235     miod      895: <p>
1.203     deraadt   896: <li>
1.288     matthieu  897: <a name="30"></a>
1.187     deraadt   898:
1.294     david     899: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 3.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.187     deraadt   900: These are the OpenBSD 3.0 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david     901: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                    902: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a> for 3.0 is no longer being maintained,
1.258     beck      903: you should update your machine.
1.187     deraadt   904:
                    905: <p>
                    906: <ul>
1.294     david     907: <li><a href="errata30.html#named">November 14, 2002:
1.230     millert   908:        A buffer overflow exists in named(8) that could lead to a
                    909:        remote crash or code execution as user named in a chroot jail.</a>
1.294     david     910: <li><a href="errata30.html#kernresource">November 6, 2002:
1.229     miod      911:        Incorrect argument checking in the getitimer(2) system call
                    912:        may allow an attacker to crash the system.</a>
1.294     david     913: <li><a href="errata30.html#smrsh">November 6, 2002:
1.229     miod      914:        An attacker can bypass smrsh(8)'s restrictions and execute
                    915:        arbitrary commands with the privileges of his own account.</a>
1.294     david     916: <li><a href="errata30.html#kadmin">October 21, 2002:
1.226     miod      917:        A buffer overflow can occur in the kadmind(8) daemon, leading
                    918:        to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294     david     919: <li><a href="errata30.html#kerntime">October 7, 2002:
1.223     miod      920:        Incorrect argument checking in the setitimer(2) system call
                    921:        may allow an attacker to write to kernel memory.</a>
1.294     david     922: <li><a href="errata30.html#scarg">August 11, 2002:
1.220     miod      923:        An insufficient boundary check in the select and poll system calls
                    924:        allows an attacker to overwrite kernel memory and execute arbitrary code
                    925:        in kernel context.</a>
1.294     david     926: <li><a href="errata30.html#ssl">July 30, 2002:
1.218     miod      927:        Several remote buffer overflows can occur in the SSL2 server and SSL3
                    928:        client of the ssl(8) library, as in the ASN.1 parser code in the
                    929:        crypto(3) library, all of them being potentially remotely
                    930:        exploitable.</a>
1.294     david     931: <li><a href="errata30.html#xdr">July 29, 2002:
1.218     miod      932:        A buffer overflow can occur in the xdr_array(3) RPC code, leading to
                    933:        possible remote crash.</a>
1.294     david     934: <li><a href="errata30.html#pppd">July 29, 2002:
1.218     miod      935:        A race condition exists in the pppd(8) daemon which may cause it to
                    936:        alter the file permissions of an arbitrary file.</a>
1.294     david     937: <li><a href="errata30.html#isakmpd2">July 5, 2002:
1.218     miod      938:        Receiving IKE payloads out of sequence can cause isakmpd(8) to
                    939:        crash.</a>
1.294     david     940: <li><a href="errata30.html#ktrace">June 27, 2002:
1.215     miod      941:        The kernel would let any user ktrace set[ug]id processes.</a>
1.294     david     942: <li><a href="errata30.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212     millert   943:        A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294     david     944: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshdauth">June 24, 2002:
1.216     deraadt   945:        All versions of OpenSSH's sshd between 2.3.1 and 3.3 contain an
1.213     miod      946:        input validation error that can result in an integer overflow and
                    947:        privilege escalation.</a>
1.294     david     948: <li><a href="errata30.html#modssl">June 24, 2002:
1.213     miod      949:        A buffer overflow can occur in the .htaccess parsing code in
1.214     miod      950:        mod_ssl httpd module, leading to possible remote crash or exploit.</a>
1.294     david     951: <li><a href="errata30.html#httpd">June 19, 2002:
1.213     miod      952:        A buffer overflow can occur during the interpretation of chunked
                    953:        encoding in httpd(8), leading to possible remote crash.</a>
1.294     david     954: <li><a href="errata30.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208     millert   955:        A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
                    956:        protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294     david     957: <li><a href="errata30.html#sudo2">April 25, 2002:
1.205     millert   958:        A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294     david     959: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.205     millert   960:         A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
                    961:         overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
                    962:         or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
                    963:         in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.294     david     964: <li><a href="errata30.html#mail">April 11, 2002:
1.202     millert   965:        The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
                    966:        in non-interactive mode.  As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
                    967:        this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.294     david     968: <li><a href="errata30.html#approval">March 19, 2002:
1.201     millert   969:        Under certain conditions, on systems using YP with netgroups in
                    970:        the password database, it is possible for the rexecd(8) and rshd(8)
                    971:        daemons to execute a shell from a password database entry for a
                    972:        different user. Similarly, atrun(8) may change to the wrong
                    973:        home directory when running jobs.</a>
1.294     david     974: <li><a href="errata30.html#zlib">March 13, 2002:
1.200     millert   975:        A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
                    976:        this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
                    977:        The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
                    978:        currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.294     david     979: <li><a href="errata30.html#openssh">March 8, 2002:
1.198     millert   980:        An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199     jufi      981:        may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.294     david     982: <li><a href="errata30.html#ptrace">January 21, 2002:
1.192     jason     983:        A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
                    984:        allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
                    985:        processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.294     david     986: <li><a href="errata30.html#sudo">January 17, 2002:
1.191     millert   987:        There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
                    988:        when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
                    989:        allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david     990: <li><a href="errata30.html#lpd">November 28, 2001:
1.189     millert   991:        An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
                    992:        creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
                    993:        remote line printer access.</a>
1.294     david     994: <li><a href="errata30.html#vi.recover">November 13, 2001:
1.188     millert   995:        The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
                    996:        to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.294     david     997: <li><a href="errata30.html#pf">November 13, 2001:
1.190     mpech     998:        pf(4) was incapable of dealing with certain ipv6 icmp packets,
                    999:        resulting in a crash.</a>
1.294     david    1000: <li><a href="errata30.html#sshd">November 12, 2001:
1.190     mpech    1001:        A security hole that may allow an attacker to partially authenticate
                   1002:        if -- and only if -- the administrator has enabled KerberosV.</a>
1.187     deraadt  1003: </ul>
                   1004:
                   1005: <p>
                   1006: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1007: <a name="29"></a>
1.173     deraadt  1008:
1.294     david    1009: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.9 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.173     deraadt  1010: These are the OpenBSD 2.9 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david    1011: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                   1012: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>. for 2.9 is no longer being maintained,
1.258     beck     1013: you should update your machine.
                   1014:
1.173     deraadt  1015:
                   1016: <p>
                   1017: <ul>
1.294     david    1018: <li><a href="errata29.html#resolver">June 25, 2002:
1.212     millert  1019:        A potential buffer overflow in the DNS resolver has been found.</a>
1.294     david    1020: <li><a href="errata29.html#fdalloc2">May 8, 2002:
1.208     millert  1021:        A race condition exists that could defeat the kernel's
                   1022:        protection of fd slots 0-2 for setuid processes.</a>
1.294     david    1023: <li><a href="errata29.html#sudo2">April 25, 2002:
1.207     millert  1024:        A bug in sudo may allow an attacker to corrupt the heap.</a>
1.294     david    1025: <li><a href="errata29.html#sshafs">April 22, 2002:
1.206     millert  1026:         A local user can gain super-user privileges due to a buffer
                   1027:         overflow in sshd(8) if AFS has been configured on the system
                   1028:         or if KerberosTgtPassing or AFSTokenPassing has been enabled
                   1029:         in the sshd_config file.</a>
1.294     david    1030: <li><a href="errata29.html#mail">April 11, 2002:
1.202     millert  1031:        The mail(1) was interpreting tilde escapes even when invoked
                   1032:        in non-interactive mode.  As mail(1) is called as root from cron,
                   1033:        this can lead to a local root compromise.</a>
1.294     david    1034: <li><a href="errata29.html#zlib">March 13, 2002:
1.200     millert  1035:        A potential double free() exists in the zlib library;
                   1036:        this is not exploitable on OpenBSD.
                   1037:        The kernel also contains a copy of zlib; it is not
                   1038:        currently known if the kernel zlib is exploitable.</a>
1.294     david    1039: <li><a href="errata29.html#openssh">March 8, 2002:
1.198     millert  1040:        An off-by-one check in OpenSSH's channel forwarding code
1.199     jufi     1041:        may allow a local user to gain super-user privileges.</a>
1.294     david    1042: <li><a href="errata29.html#ptrace">January 21, 2002:
1.198     millert  1043:        A race condition between the ptrace(2) and execve(2) system calls
                   1044:        allows an attacker to modify the memory contents of suid/sgid
                   1045:        processes which could lead to compromise of the super-user account.</a>
1.294     david    1046: <li><a href="errata29.html#sudo">January 17, 2002:
1.191     millert  1047:        There is a security hole in sudo(8) that can be exploited
                   1048:        when the Postfix sendmail replacement is installed that may
                   1049:        allow an attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david    1050: <li><a href="errata29.html#lpd2">November 28, 2001:
1.189     millert  1051:        An attacker can trick a machine running the lpd daemon into
                   1052:        creating new files in the root directory from a machine with
                   1053:        remote line printer access.</a>
1.294     david    1054: <li><a href="errata29.html#vi.recover">November 13, 2001:
1.190     mpech    1055:        The vi.recover script can be abused in such a way as
                   1056:        to cause arbitrary zero-length files to be removed.</a>
1.294     david    1057: <li><a href="errata29.html#uucp">September 11, 2001:
1.184     millert  1058:        A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
                   1059:        attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david    1060: <li><a href="errata29.html#lpd">August 29, 2001:
1.183     millert  1061:        A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
                   1062:        attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.294     david    1063: <li><a href="errata29.html#sendmail2">August 21, 2001:
1.181     millert  1064:        A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
                   1065:        attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david    1066: <li><a href="errata29.html#nfs">July 30, 2001:
1.180     jason    1067:        A kernel buffer overflow in the NFS code can be used to execute
                   1068:        arbitrary code by users with mount privileges (only root by
1.181     millert  1069:        default).</a>
1.294     david    1070: <li><a href="errata29.html#kernexec">June 15, 2001:
1.178     aaron    1071:        A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.294     david    1072: <li><a href="errata29.html#sshcookie">June 12, 2001:
1.177     markus   1073:         sshd(8) allows users to delete arbitrary files named "cookies"
                   1074:         if X11 forwarding is enabled. X11 forwarding is disabled
                   1075:         by default.</a>
1.294     david    1076: <li><a href="errata29.html#fts">May 30, 2001:
1.176     millert  1077:         Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
                   1078:         into the wrong directory.</a>
1.294     david    1079: <li><a href="errata29.html#sendmail">May 29, 2001:
1.174     millert  1080:        Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
                   1081:        leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.173     deraadt  1082: </ul>
                   1083:
                   1084: <p>
                   1085: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1086: <a name="28"></a>
1.152     deraadt  1087:
1.294     david    1088: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.8 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.152     deraadt  1089: These are the OpenBSD 2.8 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david    1090: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>. The
                   1091: <a href="stable.html">patch branch</a>. for 2.8 is no longer being maintained,
1.258     beck     1092: you should update your machine.
                   1093:
1.152     deraadt  1094:
                   1095: <p>
                   1096: <ul>
1.294     david    1097: <li><a href="errata28.html#uucp">September 11, 2001:
1.184     millert  1098:        A security hole exists in uuxqt(8) that may allow an
                   1099:        attacker to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david    1100: <li><a href="errata28.html#lpd">August 29, 2001:
1.183     millert  1101:        A security hole exists in lpd(8) that may allow an
                   1102:        attacker to gain root privileges if lpd is running.</a>
1.294     david    1103: <li><a href="errata28.html#sendmail2">August 21, 2001:
1.181     millert  1104:        A security hole exists in sendmail(8) that may allow an
                   1105:        attacker on the local host to gain root privileges.</a>
1.294     david    1106: <li><a href="errata28.html#kernexec">June 15, 2001:
1.178     aaron    1107:        A race condition in the kernel can lead to local root compromise.</a>
1.294     david    1108: <li><a href="errata28.html#fts">May 30, 2001:
1.176     millert  1109:         Programs using the fts routines can be tricked into changing
                   1110:         into the wrong directory.</a>
1.294     david    1111: <li><a href="errata28.html#sendmail">May 29, 2001:
1.175     millert  1112:        Sendmail signal handlers contain unsafe code,
                   1113:        leading to numerous race conditions.</a>
1.294     david    1114: <li><a href="errata28.html#ipf_frag">Apr 23, 2001:
1.231     mickey   1115:        IPF contains a serious bug with its handling of fragment caching.</a>
1.294     david    1116: <li><a href="errata28.html#glob_limit">Apr 23, 2001:
1.172     ericj    1117:        ftpd(8) contains a potential DoS relating to glob(3).</a>
1.294     david    1118: <li><a href="errata28.html#glob">Apr 10, 2001:
1.170     ericj    1119:        The glob(3) library call contains multiple buffer overflows.</a>
1.294     david    1120: <li><a href="errata28.html#readline">Mar 18, 2001:
1.169     millert  1121:        The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.294     david    1122: <li><a href="errata28.html#ipsec_ah">Mar 2, 2001:
1.167     ericj    1123:        Insufficient checks in the IPSEC AH IPv4 option handling code can lead to a buffer overrun in the kernel.</a>
1.294     david    1124: <li><a href="errata28.html#userldt">Mar 2, 2001:
1.168     horacio  1125:        The <b>USER_LDT</b> kernel option allows an attacker to gain access to privileged areas of kernel memory.</a>
1.294     david    1126: <li><a href="errata28.html#sudo">Feb 22, 2001:
1.171     millert  1127:        a non-exploitable buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.294     david    1128: <li><a href="errata28.html#named">Jan 29, 2001:
1.163     jason    1129:        merge named(8) with ISC BIND 4.9.8-REL, which fixes some buffer vulnerabilities.</a>
1.294     david    1130: <li><a href="errata28.html#rnd">Jan 22, 2001:
1.162     jason    1131:        rnd(4) did not use all of its input when written to.</a>
1.294     david    1132: <li><a href="errata28.html#xlock">Dec 22, 2000:
1.159     ericj    1133:        xlock(1)'s authentication was re-done to authenticate via a named pipe. (patch and new xlock binaries included).</a>
1.294     david    1134: <li><a href="errata28.html#procfs">Dec 18, 2000:
1.157     ericj    1135:        Procfs contains numerous overflows. Procfs is not used by default in OpenBSD. (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1136: <li><a href="errata28.html#kerberos2">Dec 10, 2000:
1.156     deraadt  1137:        Another problem exists in KerberosIV libraries (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1138: <li><a href="errata28.html#kerberos">Dec 7, 2000:
1.155     deraadt  1139:        A set of problems in KerberosIV exist (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1140: <li><a href="errata28.html#ftpd">Dec 4, 2000:
1.154     millert  1141:        A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.152     deraadt  1142: </ul>
                   1143:
                   1144: <p>
                   1145: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1146: <a name="27"></a>
1.124     deraadt  1147:
1.294     david    1148: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.7 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.124     deraadt  1149: These are the OpenBSD 2.7 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david    1150: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
1.124     deraadt  1151: OpenBSD 2.6 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.7.
                   1152:
                   1153: <p>
                   1154: <ul>
1.294     david    1155: <li><a href="errata27.html#readline">Mar 18, 2001:
1.169     millert  1156:        The readline library creates history files with permissive modes based on the user's umask.</a>
1.294     david    1157: <li><a href="errata27.html#sudo">Feb 22, 2001:
1.169     millert  1158:        a buffer overflow was fixed in sudo(8).</a>
1.294     david    1159: <li><a href="errata27.html#ftpd">Dec 4, 2000:
1.154     millert  1160:        A single-byte buffer overflow exists in ftpd (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1161: <li><a href="errata27.html#sshforwarding">Nov 10, 2000:
1.152     deraadt  1162:        Hostile servers can force OpenSSH clients to do agent or X11 forwarding.
                   1163:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1164: <li><a href="errata27.html#xtrans">Oct 26, 2000:
1.151     matthieu 1165:        X11 libraries have 2 potential overflows in xtrans code.
                   1166:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1167: <li><a href="errata27.html#httpd">Oct 18, 2000:
1.150     beck     1168:        Apache mod_rewrite and mod_vhost_alias modules could expose files
                   1169:        on the server in certain configurations if used.
                   1170:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1171: <li><a href="errata27.html#telnetd">Oct 10, 2000:
1.149     millert  1172:        The telnet daemon does not strip out the TERMINFO, TERMINFO_DIRS,
                   1173:        TERMPATH and TERMCAP environment variables as it should.
                   1174:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1175: <li><a href="errata27.html#format_strings">Oct 6, 2000:
1.148     millert  1176:        There are printf-style format string bugs in several privileged
                   1177:        programs.  (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1178: <li><a href="errata27.html#curses">Oct 6, 2000:
1.147     millert  1179:        libcurses honored terminal descriptions in the $HOME/.terminfo
                   1180:        directory as well as in the TERMCAP environment variable for
                   1181:        setuid and setgid applications.
1.146     deraadt  1182:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1183: <li><a href="errata27.html#talkd">Oct 6, 2000:
1.146     deraadt  1184:        A format string vulnerability exists in talkd(8).
                   1185:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1186: <li><a href="errata27.html#pw_error">Oct 3, 2000:
1.145     aaron    1187:        A format string vulnerability exists in the pw_error() function of the
                   1188:        libutil library, yielding localhost root through chpass(1).
                   1189:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1190: <li><a href="errata27.html#ipsec">Sep 18, 2000:
1.144     jason    1191:        Bad ESP/AH packets could cause a crash under certain conditions.
                   1192:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1193: <li><a href="errata27.html#xlock">Aug 16, 2000:
1.141     deraadt  1194:        A format string vulnerability (localhost root) exists in xlock(1).
                   1195:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1196: <li><a href="errata27.html#X11_libs">July 14, 2000:
1.139     deraadt  1197:        Various bugs found in X11 libraries have various side effects, almost
                   1198:        completely denial of service in OpenBSD.
                   1199:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1200: <li><a href="errata27.html#ftpd">July 5, 2000:
1.136     deraadt  1201:        Just like pretty much all the other unix ftp daemons
                   1202:        on the planet, ftpd had a remote root hole in it.
                   1203:        Luckily, ftpd was not enabled by default.
1.137     deraadt  1204:        The problem exists if anonymous ftp is enabled.
1.136     deraadt  1205:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1206: <li><a href="errata27.html#mopd">July 5, 2000:
1.136     deraadt  1207:        Mopd, very rarely used, contained some buffer overflows.
                   1208:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1209: <li><a href="errata27.html#libedit">June 28, 2000:
1.135     deraadt  1210:        libedit would check for a <b>.editrc</b> file in the current
                   1211:        directory.  Not known to be a real security issue, but a patch
                   1212:        is available anyways.
                   1213:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1214: <li><a href="errata27.html#dhclient">June 24, 2000:
1.134     deraadt  1215:        A serious bug in dhclient(8) could allow strings from a
                   1216:        malicious dhcp server to be executed in the shell as root.
                   1217:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1218: <li><a href="errata27.html#isakmpd">June 9, 2000:
1.133     deraadt  1219:        A serious bug in isakmpd(8) policy handling wherein
                   1220:        policy verification could be completely bypassed in isakmpd.
                   1221:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1222: <li><a href="errata27.html#uselogin">June 6, 2000:
1.132     deraadt  1223:        The non-default flag UseLogin in <b>/etc/sshd_config</b> is broken,
                   1224:        should not be used, and results in security problems on
                   1225:        other operating systems.</a>
1.294     david    1226: <li><a href="errata27.html#bridge">May 26, 2000:
1.129     deraadt  1227:        The bridge(4) <i>learning</i> flag may be bypassed.
1.128     deraadt  1228:        (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1229: <li><a href="errata27.html#ipf">May 25, 2000:
1.127     kjell    1230:        Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
                   1231:        in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
                   1232:
1.124     deraadt  1233: </ul>
                   1234:
                   1235: <p>
                   1236: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1237: <a name="26"></a>
1.119     deraadt  1238:
1.294     david    1239: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.6 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.119     deraadt  1240: These are the OpenBSD 2.6 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david    1241: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
1.119     deraadt  1242: OpenBSD 2.5 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.6.
                   1243:
                   1244: <p>
                   1245: <ul>
1.294     david    1246: <li><a href="errata26.html#semconfig">May 26, 2000:
1.130     deraadt  1247:        SYSV semaphore support contained an undocumented system call
1.131     deraadt  1248:        which could wedge semaphore-using processes from exiting. (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1249: <li><a href="errata26.html#ipf">May 25, 2000:
1.127     kjell    1250:        Improper use of ipf <i>keep-state</i> rules can result
                   1251:        in firewall rules being bypassed. (patch included)</a>
1.294     david    1252: <li><a href="errata26.html#xlockmore">May 25, 2000:
1.125     deraadt  1253:        xlockmore has a bug which a localhost attacker can use to gain
                   1254:        access to the encrypted root password hash (which is normally
1.245     miod     1255:        encoded using blowfish</a> (see
1.294     david    1256:        <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crypt&amp;sektion=3">
1.125     deraadt  1257:        crypt(3)</a>)
1.245     miod     1258:        (patch included).
1.294     david    1259: <li><a href="errata26.html#procfs">Jan 20, 2000:
1.123     deraadt  1260:        Systems running with procfs enabled and mounted are
                   1261:        vulnerable to a very tricky exploit.  procfs is not
                   1262:        mounted by default.
                   1263:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1264: <li><a href="errata26.html#sendmail">Dec 4, 1999:
1.296     david    1265:        Sendmail permitted any user to cause an aliases file wrap,
1.190     mpech    1266:        thus exposing the system to a race where the aliases file
                   1267:        did not exist.
1.119     deraadt  1268:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1269: <li><a href="errata26.html#poll">Dec 4, 1999:
1.190     mpech    1270:        Various bugs in poll(2) may cause a kernel crash.</a>
1.294     david    1271: <li><a href="errata26.html#sslUSA">Dec 2, 1999:
1.120     deraadt  1272:        A buffer overflow in the RSAREF code included in the
                   1273:        USA version of libssl, is possibly exploitable in
                   1274:        httpd, ssh, or isakmpd, if SSL/RSA features are enabled.
1.124     deraadt  1275:        (patch included).<br></a>
                   1276:        <strong>Update:</strong> Turns out that this was not exploitable
                   1277:        in any of the software included in OpenBSD 2.6.
1.294     david    1278: <li><a href="errata26.html#ifmedia">Nov 9, 1999:
1.190     mpech    1279:        Any user could change interface media configurations, resulting in
                   1280:        a localhost denial of service attack.
1.121     deraadt  1281:        (patch included).</a>
1.119     deraadt  1282: </ul>
                   1283:
                   1284: <p>
                   1285: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1286: <a name="25"></a>
1.106     deraadt  1287:
1.294     david    1288: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.5 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.93      deraadt  1289: These are the OpenBSD 2.5 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david    1290: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
1.93      deraadt  1291: OpenBSD 2.4 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.5.
                   1292:
1.96      deraadt  1293: <p>
1.104     deraadt  1294: <ul>
1.294     david    1295: <li><a href="errata25.html#cron">Aug 30, 1999:
1.103     deraadt  1296:        In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the
                   1297:        fake popen() and run sendmail as the user, not as root.
                   1298:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1299: <li><a href="errata25.html#miscfs">Aug 12, 1999: The procfs and fdescfs
1.101     deraadt  1300:        filesystems had an overrun in their handling of uio_offset
                   1301:        in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
                   1302:        enabled by default). (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1303: <li><a href="errata25.html#profil">Aug 9, 1999: Stop profiling (see profil(2))
1.100     deraadt  1304:        when we execve() a new process. (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1305: <li><a href="errata25.html#ipsec_in_use">Aug 6, 1999: Packets that should have
1.98      deraadt  1306:        been handled by IPsec may be transmitted as cleartext.
                   1307:        PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
                   1308:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1309: <li><a href="errata25.html#rc">Aug 5, 1999: In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for
1.97      deraadt  1310:        motd re-writing and change the find(1) to use -execdir
                   1311:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1312: <li><a href="errata25.html#chflags">Jul 30, 1999: Do not permit regular
1.95      deraadt  1313:        users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or block devices
                   1314:        which they may currently be the owner of (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1315: <li><a href="errata25.html#nroff">Jul 27, 1999: Cause groff(1) to be invoked
1.95      deraadt  1316:        with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1) (patch included).</a>
1.93      deraadt  1317: </ul>
                   1318:
1.106     deraadt  1319: <p>
                   1320: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1321: <a name="24"></a>
1.235     miod     1322:
1.294     david    1323: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.4 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.75      deraadt  1324: These are the OpenBSD 2.4 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david    1325: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
1.75      deraadt  1326: OpenBSD 2.3 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.4.
                   1327:
1.96      deraadt  1328: <p>
1.75      deraadt  1329: <ul>
1.294     david    1330: <li><a href="errata24.html#poll">Mar 22, 1999: The nfds argument for poll(2) needs
1.91      deraadt  1331:        to be constrained, to avoid kvm starvation (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1332: <li><a href="errata24.html#tss">Mar 21, 1999: A change in TSS handling stops
1.91      deraadt  1333:        another kernel crash case caused by the <strong>crashme</strong>
                   1334:        program (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1335: <li><a href="errata24.html#nlink">Feb 25, 1999: An unbounded increment on the
1.90      deraadt  1336:        nlink value in FFS and EXT2FS filesystems can cause a system crash.
1.89      deraadt  1337:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1338: <li><a href="errata24.html#ping">Feb 23, 1999: Yet another buffer overflow
1.88      deraadt  1339:        existed in ping(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1340: <li><a href="errata24.html#ipqrace">Feb 19, 1999: ipintr() had a race in use of
1.87      deraadt  1341:        the ipq, which could permit an attacker to cause a crash.
                   1342:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1343: <li><a href="errata24.html#accept">Feb 17, 1999: A race condition in the
1.86      deraadt  1344:        kernel between accept(2) and select(2) could permit an attacker
                   1345:        to hang sockets from remote.
                   1346:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1347: <li><a href="errata24.html#maxqueue">Feb 17, 1999: IP fragment assembly can
1.85      deraadt  1348:        bog the machine excessively and cause problems.
                   1349:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1350: <li><a href="errata24.html#trctrap">Feb 12, 1999: i386 T_TRCTRAP handling and
1.84      deraadt  1351:        DDB interacted to possibly cause a crash.
                   1352:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1353: <li><a href="errata24.html#rst">Feb 11, 1999: TCP/IP RST handling was sloppy.
1.83      deraadt  1354:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1355: <li><a href="errata24.html#bootpd">Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81      deraadt  1356:        problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1357: <li><a href="errata24.html#termcap">Nov 19, 1998: There is a possibly locally
1.82      deraadt  1358:        exploitable problem relating to environment variables in termcap
                   1359:        and curses. (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1360: <li><a href="errata24.html#tcpfix">Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78      deraadt  1361:        bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.75      deraadt  1362: </ul>
                   1363:
1.106     deraadt  1364: <p>
                   1365: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1366: <a name="23"></a>
1.235     miod     1367:
1.294     david    1368: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.3 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.73      deraadt  1369: These are the OpenBSD 2.3 advisories -- all these problems are solved
1.294     david    1370: in <a href="anoncvs.html">OpenBSD current</a>.  Obviously, all the
1.73      deraadt  1371: OpenBSD 2.2 advisories listed below are fixed in OpenBSD 2.3.
1.53      matthieu 1372:
1.96      deraadt  1373: <p>
1.53      matthieu 1374: <ul>
1.294     david    1375: <li><a href="errata23.html#bootpd">Nov 27, 1998: There is a remotely exploitable
1.81      deraadt  1376:        problem in bootpd(8). (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1377: <li><a href="errata23.html#tcpfix">Nov 13, 1998: There is a remote machine lockup
1.78      deraadt  1378:        bug in the TCP decoding kernel. (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1379: <li><a href="errata23.html#resolver">August 31, 1998: A benign looking resolver
1.190     mpech    1380:        buffer overflow bug was re-introduced accidentally (patches included).</a>
1.294     david    1381: <li><a href="errata23.html#chpass">Aug 2, 1998:
1.190     mpech    1382:        chpass(1) has a file descriptor leak which allows an
                   1383:        attacker to modify /etc/master.passwd.</a>
1.294     david    1384: <li><a href="errata23.html#inetd">July 15, 1998: Inetd had a file descriptor leak.</a>
                   1385: <li><a href="errata23.html#fdalloc">Jul  2, 1998: setuid and setgid processes
1.72      deraadt  1386:        should not be executed with fd slots 0, 1, or 2 free.
                   1387:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1388: <li><a href="errata23.html#xlib">June 6, 1998: Further problems with the X
1.71      deraadt  1389:        libraries (patches included).</a>
1.294     david    1390: <li><a href="errata23.html#kill">May 17, 1998: kill(2) of setuid/setgid target
1.66      deraadt  1391:        processes too permissive (4th revision patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1392: <li><a href="errata23.html#immutable">May 11, 1998: mmap() permits partial bypassing
1.60      deraadt  1393:        of immutable and append-only file flags. (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1394: <li><a href="errata23.html#ipsec">May  5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC packets
1.190     mpech    1395:        if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1396: <li><a href="errata23.html#xterm-xaw">May  1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm and Xaw
1.58      deraadt  1397:        (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.53      matthieu 1398: </ul>
1.9       deraadt  1399:
1.106     deraadt  1400: <p>
                   1401: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1402: <a name="22"></a>
1.235     miod     1403:
1.294     david    1404: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.2 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.45      deraadt  1405: These are the OpenBSD 2.2 advisories.  All these problems are solved
1.294     david    1406: in <a href="23.html">OpenBSD 2.3</a>.  Some of these problems
1.45      deraadt  1407: still exist in other operating systems.  (The supplied patches are for
                   1408: OpenBSD 2.2; they may or may not work on OpenBSD 2.1).
1.9       deraadt  1409:
1.96      deraadt  1410: <p>
1.9       deraadt  1411: <ul>
1.294     david    1412: <li><a href="errata22.html#ipsec">May  5, 1998: Incorrect handling of IPSEC
1.72      deraadt  1413:        packets if IPSEC is enabled (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1414: <li><a href="errata22.html#xterm-xaw">May  1, 1998: Buffer overflow in xterm
1.72      deraadt  1415:        and Xaw (CERT advisory VB-98.04) (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1416: <li><a href="errata22.html#uucpd">Apr 22, 1998: Buffer overflow in uucpd
1.72      deraadt  1417:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1418: <li><a href="errata22.html#rmjob">Apr 22, 1998: Buffer mismanagement in lprm
1.72      deraadt  1419:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1420: <li><a href="errata22.html#ping">Mar 31, 1998: Overflow in ping -R (patch included).</a>
                   1421: <li><a href="errata22.html#named">Mar 30, 1998: Overflow in named fake-iquery
1.59      deraadt  1422:        (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1423: <li><a href="errata22.html#mountd">Mar  2, 1998: Accidental NFS filesystem
1.72      deraadt  1424:        export (patch included).</a>
1.112     philen   1425: <li><a href="advisories/mmap.txt">Feb 26, 1998: Read-write mmap() flaw.</a>
1.294     david    1426:        Revision 3 of the patch is available <a href="errata22.html#mmap">here</a>
1.112     philen   1427: <li><a href="advisories/sourceroute.txt">Feb 19, 1998: Sourcerouted Packet
1.59      deraadt  1428:        Acceptance.</a>
1.294     david    1429:        A patch is available <a href="errata22.html#sourceroute">here</a>.
                   1430: <li><a href="errata22.html#ruserok">Feb 13, 1998: Setuid coredump &amp; Ruserok()
1.72      deraadt  1431:        flaw (patch included).</a>
1.294     david    1432: <li><a href="errata22.html#ldso">Feb  9, 1998: MIPS ld.so flaw (patch included).</a>
1.1       deraadt  1433: </ul>
                   1434:
1.106     deraadt  1435: <p>
                   1436: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1437: <a name="21"></a>
1.235     miod     1438:
1.294     david    1439: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.1 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.52      deraadt  1440: These are the OpenBSD 2.1 advisories.  All these problems are solved
1.294     david    1441: in <a href="22.html">OpenBSD 2.2</a>.  Some of these problems still
1.52      deraadt  1442: exist in other operating systems.  (If you are running OpenBSD 2.1, we
                   1443: would strongly recommend an upgrade to the newest release, as this
                   1444: patch list only attempts at fixing the most important security
                   1445: problems.  In particular, OpenBSD 2.2 fixes numerous localhost
                   1446: security problems.  Many of those problems were solved in ways which
                   1447: make it hard for us to provide patches).
                   1448:
1.96      deraadt  1449: <p>
1.52      deraadt  1450: <ul>
1.112     philen   1451: <li><a href="advisories/signals.txt">Sep 15, 1997: Deviant Signals (patch included)</a>
                   1452: <li><a href="advisories/rfork.txt">Aug  2, 1997: Rfork() system call flaw
1.59      deraadt  1453:        (patch included)</a>
1.112     philen   1454: <li><a href="advisories/procfs.txt">Jun 24, 1997: Procfs flaws (patch included)</a>
1.52      deraadt  1455: </ul>
1.51      deraadt  1456:
1.106     deraadt  1457: <p>
                   1458: <li>
1.288     matthieu 1459: <a name="20"></a>
1.235     miod     1460:
1.294     david    1461: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD 2.0 Security Advisories</font></h3>
1.99      deraadt  1462: These are the OpenBSD 2.0 advisories.  All these problems are solved
1.294     david    1463: in <a href="21.html">OpenBSD 2.1</a>.  Some of these problems still
1.99      deraadt  1464: exist in other operating systems.  (If you are running OpenBSD 2.0, we
                   1465: commend you for being there back in the old days!, but you're really
                   1466: missing out if you don't install a new version!)
                   1467:
                   1468: <p>
                   1469: <ul>
1.112     philen   1470: <li><a href="advisories/res_random.txt">April 22, 1997: Predictable IDs in the
1.99      deraadt  1471:        resolver (patch included)</a>
                   1472: <li>Many others... if people can hunt them down, please let me know
                   1473:        and we'll put them up here.
                   1474: </ul>
1.51      deraadt  1475: <p>
1.106     deraadt  1476:
1.288     matthieu 1477: <a name="watching"></a>
1.294     david    1478: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Watching our Changes</font></h3><p>
1.106     deraadt  1479:
1.21      deraadt  1480: Since we take a proactive stance with security, we are continually
                   1481: finding and fixing new security problems.  Not all of these problems
1.80      espie    1482: get widely reported because (as stated earlier) many of them are not
1.45      deraadt  1483: confirmed to be exploitable; many simple bugs we fix do turn out to
                   1484: have security consequences we could not predict.  We do not have the
                   1485: time resources to make these changes available in the above format.<p>
1.21      deraadt  1486:
                   1487: Thus there are usually minor security fixes in the current source code
                   1488: beyond the previous major OpenBSD release.  We make a limited
1.45      deraadt  1489: guarantee that these problems are of minimal impact and unproven
1.44      ian      1490: exploitability.  If we discover that a problem definitely matters for
1.45      deraadt  1491: security, patches will show up here <strong>VERY</strong> quickly.<p>
1.21      deraadt  1492:
1.45      deraadt  1493: People who are really concerned with security can do a number of
                   1494: things:<p>
1.21      deraadt  1495:
                   1496: <ul>
                   1497: <li>If you understand security issues, watch our
1.294     david    1498:        <a href="mail.html">source-changes mailing list</a> and keep an
1.23      deraadt  1499:        eye out for things which appear security related.  Since
1.21      deraadt  1500:        exploitability is not proven for many of the fixes we make,
                   1501:        do not expect the relevant commit message to say "SECURITY FIX!".
                   1502:        If a problem is proven and serious, a patch will be available
                   1503:        here very shortly after.
1.161     horacio  1504: <li>In addition to source changes, you can watch our <a href="mail.html">
1.160     ericj    1505:        security-announce mailing list</a> which will notify you for every
1.186     ian      1506:        security related item that the OpenBSD team deems as a possible threat,
1.160     ericj    1507:        and instruct you on how to patch the problem.
1.21      deraadt  1508: <li>Track our current source code tree, and teach yourself how to do a
1.29      deraadt  1509:        complete system build from time to time (read /usr/src/Makefile
                   1510:        carefully).  Users can make the assumption that the current
                   1511:        source tree always has stronger security than the previous release.
1.45      deraadt  1512:        However, building your own system from source code is not trivial;
1.265     miod     1513:        it is nearly 600MB of source code, and problems do occur as we
1.45      deraadt  1514:        transition between major releases.
1.115     ericj    1515: <li>Install a binary snapshot for your
1.80      espie    1516:        architecture, which are made available fairly often.  For
1.29      deraadt  1517:        instance, an i386 snapshot is typically made available weekly.
1.21      deraadt  1518: </ul>
                   1519:
1.9       deraadt  1520: <p>
1.288     matthieu 1521: <a name="reporting"></a>
1.294     david    1522: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Reporting problems</font></h3><p>
1.3       deraadt  1523:
1.5       deraadt  1524: <p> If you find a new security problem, you can mail it to
1.294     david    1525: <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">deraadt@openbsd.org</a>.
1.7       deraadt  1526: <br>
1.5       deraadt  1527: If you wish to PGP encode it (but please only do so if privacy is very
1.112     philen   1528: urgent, since it is inconvenient) use this <a href="advisories/pgpkey.txt">pgp key</a>.
1.5       deraadt  1529:
1.107     deraadt  1530: <p>
1.288     matthieu 1531: <a name="papers"></a>
1.294     david    1532: <li><h3><font color="#e00000">Further Reading</font></h3><p>
1.107     deraadt  1533:
                   1534: A number of papers have been written by OpenBSD team members, about security
                   1535: related changes they have done in OpenBSD.  The postscript versions of these
1.108     deraadt  1536: documents are available as follows.<p>
1.107     deraadt  1537:
                   1538: <ul>
1.113     deraadt  1539: <li>A Future-Adaptable Password Scheme.<br>
1.294     david    1540:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
                   1541:     by <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>,
                   1542:     <a href="mailto:dm@openbsd.org">David Mazieres</a>.<br>
                   1543:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1544:     <a href="papers/bcrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113     deraadt  1545: <p>
                   1546: <li>Cryptography in OpenBSD: An Overview.<br>
1.294     david    1547:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
                   1548:     by <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>,
                   1549:     <a href="mailto:niklas@openbsd.org">Niklas Hallqvist</a>,
                   1550:     <a href="mailto:art@openbsd.org">Artur Grabowski</a>,
                   1551:     <a href="mailto:angelos@openbsd.org">Angelos D. Keromytis</a>,
                   1552:     <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
                   1553:     <a href="papers/crypt-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1554:     <a href="papers/crypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113     deraadt  1555: <p>
                   1556: <li>strlcpy and strlcat -- consistent, safe, string copy and concatenation.<br>
1.294     david    1557:     <a href="events.html#usenix99">Usenix 1999</a>,
                   1558:     by <a href="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">Todd C. Miller</a>,
                   1559:     <a href="mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org">Theo de Raadt</a>.<br>
                   1560:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1561:     <a href="papers/strlcpy-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.113     deraadt  1562: <p>
1.118     deraadt  1563: <li>Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks-Switches, Gateways, and Authentication.<br>
1.294     david    1564:     <a href="events.html#lisa99">LISA 1999</a>,
                   1565:     by <a href="mailto:beck@openbsd.org">Bob Beck</a>.<br>
                   1566:     <a href="papers/authgw-paper.ps">paper</a> and
                   1567:     <a href="papers/authgw-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.118     deraadt  1568: <p>
1.153     jufi     1569: <li>Encrypting Virtual Memory<br>
1.294     david    1570:     <a href="events.html#sec2000">Usenix Security 2000</a>,
                   1571:     <a href="mailto:provos@openbsd.org">Niels Provos</a>.<br>
                   1572:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt.ps">paper</a> and
                   1573:     <a href="papers/swapencrypt-slides.ps">slides</a>.
1.142     deraadt  1574: <p>
1.107     deraadt  1575: </ul>
1.294     david    1576: </ul>
1.106     deraadt  1577:
1.2       deraadt  1578: <hr>
1.294     david    1579: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src="back.gif" border=0 alt="OpenBSD"></a>
                   1580: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.24      deraadt  1581: <br>
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