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| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 36 |
2 files changed, 70 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index 7db9ef1..10e8b0a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -102,7 +102,21 @@ <sect2 id="security"> <title>Security Advisories</title> - <para></para> + <para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows + a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's + memory to be overwritten, has been fixed. + For more information, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + + <para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5; + which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local + denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user + could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed. + For more information, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="kernel"> @@ -131,6 +145,12 @@ <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>, which currently defaults to <literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para> + <para arch="i386">A bug in Inter-Processor Interrupt (IPI) + handling, which could cause SMP systems to crash under heavy + load, has been fixed. More details are contained in errata note + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -208,6 +228,14 @@ <para>The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> + <para>Several programming errors in the &man.sk.4; driver have + been corrected. This bug was particular to SMP systems, and + could cause panics, page faults, aborted SSH connections, or + corrupted file transfers. More details can be found in + errata note + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.sk.4; driver now has support for &man.altq.4;. This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based interfaces. &merged;</para> @@ -303,6 +331,12 @@ <para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library &man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para> + + <para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More + details can be found in errata note + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + </sect3> <sect3> diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index 7db9ef1..10e8b0a 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -102,7 +102,21 @@ <sect2 id="security"> <title>Security Advisories</title> - <para></para> + <para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows + a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's + memory to be overwritten, has been fixed. + For more information, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + + <para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5; + which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local + denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user + could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed. + For more information, see security advisory + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + </sect2> <sect2 id="kernel"> @@ -131,6 +145,12 @@ <varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>, which currently defaults to <literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para> + <para arch="i386">A bug in Inter-Processor Interrupt (IPI) + handling, which could cause SMP systems to crash under heavy + load, has been fixed. More details are contained in errata note + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + <!-- Above this line, sort kernel changes by manpage/keyword--> <sect3 id="boot"> @@ -208,6 +228,14 @@ <para>The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para> + <para>Several programming errors in the &man.sk.4; driver have + been corrected. This bug was particular to SMP systems, and + could cause panics, page faults, aborted SSH connections, or + corrupted file transfers. More details can be found in + errata note + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + <para>The &man.sk.4; driver now has support for &man.altq.4;. This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based interfaces. &merged;</para> @@ -303,6 +331,12 @@ <para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library &man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para> + + <para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More + details can be found in errata note + <ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>. + &merged;</para> + </sect3> <sect3> |
