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20 cce97a6e 2019-05-27 bentley 2.5 Errata
24 794d6121 2002-10-17 deraadt For errata on a certain release, click below:<br>
25 d9591149 2020-04-25 schwarze <a href="errata20.html">2.0</a>,
26 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata21.html">2.1</a>,
27 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata22.html">2.2</a>,
28 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata23.html">2.3</a>,
29 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata24.html">2.4</a>,
30 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata26.html">2.6</a>,
31 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata27.html">2.7</a>,
32 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata28.html">2.8</a>,
33 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata29.html">2.9</a>,
34 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata30.html">3.0</a>,
35 f90eaf69 2002-10-17 deraadt <a href="errata31.html">3.1</a>,
36 a7a37a75 2003-03-26 deraadt <a href="errata32.html">3.2</a>,
37 20001309 2003-10-24 david <a href="errata33.html">3.3</a>,
38 33dd1100 2004-03-30 david <a href="errata34.html">3.4</a>,
39 ed446328 2004-10-29 miod <a href="errata35.html">3.5</a>,
40 a8e7210b 2005-05-17 deraadt <a href="errata36.html">3.6</a>,
42 d9591149 2020-04-25 schwarze <a href="errata37.html">3.7</a>,
43 d9482af0 2006-03-08 deraadt <a href="errata38.html">3.8</a>,
44 964ac467 2006-10-30 deraadt <a href="errata39.html">3.9</a>,
45 cf5b86e9 2007-03-06 deraadt <a href="errata40.html">4.0</a>,
46 484c7f32 2007-09-07 merdely <a href="errata41.html">4.1</a>,
47 43d99dce 2008-03-09 deraadt <a href="errata42.html">4.2</a>,
48 d0a03a62 2008-08-23 deraadt <a href="errata43.html">4.3</a>,
49 22e00054 2009-04-08 deraadt <a href="errata44.html">4.4</a>,
50 2cd0ee12 2009-07-29 deraadt <a href="errata45.html">4.5</a>,
51 9fcb739a 2010-03-08 deraadt <a href="errata46.html">4.6</a>,
52 284643d7 2010-11-02 deraadt <a href="errata47.html">4.7</a>,
53 3a324d4c 2011-05-01 miod <a href="errata48.html">4.8</a>,
54 387f2efc 2011-09-07 nick <a href="errata49.html">4.9</a>,
55 51db12a0 2012-05-01 sthen <a href="errata50.html">5.0</a>,
56 3651fe4c 2012-10-27 deraadt <a href="errata51.html">5.1</a>,
57 f2f345d7 2013-03-16 deraadt <a href="errata52.html">5.2</a>,
59 d9591149 2020-04-25 schwarze <a href="errata53.html">5.3</a>,
60 4750baa1 2014-02-27 deraadt <a href="errata54.html">5.4</a>,
61 ff14f7ba 2014-09-06 jsg <a href="errata55.html">5.5</a>,
62 7538f7d7 2015-03-11 deraadt <a href="errata56.html">5.6</a>,
63 f08878e7 2015-08-11 deraadt <a href="errata57.html">5.7</a>,
64 2b9ff78a 2016-02-20 deraadt <a href="errata58.html">5.8</a>,
65 280be49d 2016-07-23 deraadt <a href="errata59.html">5.9</a>,
66 495c4b68 2017-03-27 tj <a href="errata60.html">6.0</a>,
67 17768be9 2017-10-01 deraadt <a href="errata61.html">6.1</a>,
68 51085ea4 2018-03-25 deraadt <a href="errata62.html">6.2</a>,
69 094e8ffc 2018-10-09 deraadt <a href="errata63.html">6.3</a>,
70 8409cfad 2019-04-02 deraadt <a href="errata64.html">6.4</a>,
71 a8b5c71f 2019-09-30 deraadt <a href="errata65.html">6.5</a>,
72 854f9a5d 2020-04-25 deraadt <a href="errata66.html">6.6</a>,
73 650b262f 2020-09-22 deraadt <a href="errata67.html">6.7</a>,
74 468be29c 2021-04-13 deraadt <a href="errata68.html">6.8</a>,
76 c4b6807e 2021-09-19 deraadt <a href="errata69.html">6.9</a>,
77 51b06bb0 2022-03-26 deraadt <a href="errata70.html">7.0</a>,
78 59f57020 2022-09-24 deraadt <a href="errata71.html">7.1</a>,
79 c69b933b 2023-03-19 tj <a href="errata72.html">7.2</a>,
80 d4b998ff 2023-09-27 tj <a href="errata73.html">7.3</a>,
81 e502ae6d 2024-03-10 tj <a href="errata74.html">7.4</a>,
82 e502ae6d 2024-03-10 tj <a href="errata75.html">7.5</a>.
86 495c4b68 2017-03-27 tj Patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as unified diffs.
87 495c4b68 2017-03-27 tj Each patch contains usage instructions.
88 495c4b68 2017-03-27 tj All the following patches are also available in one
89 495c4b68 2017-03-27 tj <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5.tar.gz">tar.gz file</a>
90 495c4b68 2017-03-27 tj for convenience.
93 495c4b68 2017-03-27 tj Patches for supported releases are also incorporated into the
94 f22c8256 2017-03-28 tj <a href="stable.html">-stable branch</a>.
100 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="cron">
101 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>001: SECURITY FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong>
102 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
103 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt In cron(8), make sure argv[] is NULL terminated in the fake popen() and
104 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt run sendmail as the user, not as root.
105 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/012_cron.patch">
106 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
109 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="miscfs">
110 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>002: SECURITY FIX: Aug 12, 1999</strong>
111 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
112 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt The procfs and fdescfs filesystems had an overrun in their handling
113 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt of uio_offset in their readdir() routines. (These filesystems are not
114 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt enabled by default).
115 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/011_miscfs.patch">
116 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
119 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="profil">
120 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>003: SECURITY FIX: Aug 9, 1999</strong>
121 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
122 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Stop profiling (see profil(2)) when we execve() a new process.
123 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/010_profil.patch">
124 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
127 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="ipsec_in_use">
128 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>004: SECURITY FIX: Aug 6, 1999</strong>
129 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
130 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Packets that should have been handled by IPsec may be transmitted
131 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt as cleartext. PF_KEY SA expirations may leak kernel resources.
132 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/009_ipsec_in_use.patch">
133 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
136 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="rc">
137 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>005: SECURITY FIX: Aug 5, 1999</strong>
138 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
139 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt In /etc/rc, use mktemp(1) for motd re-writing, and change the find(1)
140 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt to use -execdir.
141 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/008_rc.patch">
142 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
145 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="chflags">
146 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>006: SECURITY FIX: Jul 30, 1999</strong>
147 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
148 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Do not permit regular users to chflags(2) or fchflags(2) on character or
149 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt block devices which they may currently be the owner of.
150 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/007_chflags.patch">
151 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
154 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="nroff">
155 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>007: SECURITY FIX: Jul 27, 1999</strong>
156 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
157 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Cause groff(1) to be invoked with the -S flag, when called by nroff(1),
158 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt to avoid various groff features which may be security issues. On the
159 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt whole, this is not really a security issue, but it was discussed on
160 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt BUGTRAQ as if it is.
161 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/006_nroff.patch">
162 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
165 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="fts">
166 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>008: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
167 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
168 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Programs using fts(3) could dump core when given a directory structure
169 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt with a very large number of entries.
170 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/005_fts.patch">
171 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
174 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="tcpsack">
175 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>009: RELIABILITY FIX: May 19, 1999</strong>
176 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
177 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Sequence numbers could wrap with TCP_SACK and TCP_NEWRENO, resulting in
178 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt failure to retransmit correctly.
179 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/004_tcpsack.patch">
180 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
183 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="ipsec1">
184 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>010: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
185 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
186 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Retransmitted TCP packets could get corrupted when flowing over an
187 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt IPSEC ESP tunnel.
188 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/003_espdata.patch">
189 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
192 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="bmap">
193 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>011: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
194 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
195 4750baa1 2014-02-27 deraadt A local user can crash the system by reading a file larger than 64meg
196 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt from an ext2fs partition.
197 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/002_bmap.patch">
198 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
201 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="pfkey">
202 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>012: RELIABILITY FIX</strong>
203 56aa579f 2014-03-31 deraadt <i>All architectures</i><br>
204 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt PF_KEY socket operations leak internal kernel resources, so that a
205 ddf8cb6b 2001-08-08 jsyn system running an IPsec key management daemon like photurisd or isakmpd
206 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt will cause the networking subsystem to stop working after a finite amount
207 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt of time.
208 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/common/001_pfkey.patch">
209 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
212 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="y2k">
213 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>013: Y2K FIX: Aug 30, 1999</strong><br>
214 2cd2767c 1999-12-30 deraadt This patch corrects various OpenBSD/i386 2.5 problems with Y2K. The 2.6
215 2cd2767c 1999-12-30 deraadt release (released at 1 Dec 1999) has this problem solved. This patch is
216 2cd2767c 1999-12-30 deraadt just a workaround.
217 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/014_y2k.patch">
218 2cd2767c 1999-12-30 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
221 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="brooktree">
222 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>014: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
223 df326bde 1999-11-14 deraadt If a user opened the brooktree device on a system where it did not exist,
224 df326bde 1999-11-14 deraadt the kernel crashed.
225 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/i386/013_brooktree.patch">
226 df326bde 1999-11-14 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
229 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="macutils">
230 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>015: INSTALL PROBLEM</strong><br>
231 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt The mac68k install utils were mistakenly left off the CD and out of
232 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt the FTP install directories. These tools have now been added to the
233 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt FTP install directories. See
234 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils">
235 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.5/mac68k/utils</a>
238 7be47837 2015-02-14 bentley <li id="powerpc_trap">
239 b59816aa 2019-05-28 deraadt <strong>016: RELIABILITY FIX</strong><br>
240 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt Two problems in the powerpc kernel trap handling cause severe system
241 e9d3a4fc 1999-11-09 deraadt unreliability.
242 b9dd0872 2016-10-16 tb <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/2.5/powerpc/001_trap.patch">
243 5f1349c3 2014-03-31 deraadt A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.</a>
