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    <title>&os;
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    Errata</title>

    <corpauthor>
    The &os; Project
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    <pubdate>$FreeBSD$</pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2000</year>
      <year>2001</year>
      <year>2002</year>
      <year>2003</year>
      <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
    </copyright>
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  <abstract>
    <para>This document lists errata items for &os; 
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      containing significant information discovered after the release
      or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the
      release documentation.
      This information includes security advisories, as well as news
      relating to the software or documentation that could affect its
      operation or usability.  An up-to-date version of this document
      should always be consulted before installing this version of
      &os;.</para>

    <para>This errata document for &os; 
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      will be maintained until the release of &os; 5.1-RELEASE.</para>
  </abstract>

  <sect1 id="intro">
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking news</quote>
      about &os;
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      Before installing this version, it is important to consult this
      document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems
      that may already have been found and fixed.</para>

    <para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed
      with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be
      out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on
      the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current
      errata</quote> for this release.  These other copies of the
      errata are located at <ulink
      url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink>, plus any sites
      which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para>

    <para>Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also
      contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of
      the snapshot).</para>

    <para>For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see <ulink
      url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"></ulink> or <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/"></ulink>.</para>

  </sect1>

  <sect1 id="security">
    <title>Security Advisories</title>

    <para>Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in
      <application>CVS</application> could allow an attacker to
      execute arbitrary comands on a CVS server.  More details can be
      found in security advisory <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:01.cvs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:01</ulink>.</para>

    <para>A timing-based attack on <application>OpenSSL</application>,
      could allow a very powerful attacker access to plaintext
      under certain circumstances.  This problem has been corrected in
      &os; &release.current; with an upgrade
      to <application>OpenSSL</application> 0.9.7.  On supported
      security fix branches, this problem has been corrected with the
      import of <application>OpenSSL</application> 0.9.6i.  See security
      advisory <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:02.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:02</ulink>
      for more details.</para>

    <para>It may be possible to recover the shared secret key used by
      the implementation of the <quote>syncookies</quote> feature.
      This reduces its effectiveness in dealing with TCP SYN flood
      denial-of-service attacks.  Workaround information and fixes are
      given in security advisory <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:03.syncookies.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:03</ulink>.</para>

    <para>Due to buffer overflows in header parsing in <application>sendmail</application>, a remote
      attacker can create a specially-crafted message that may cause
      &man.sendmail.8; to execute arbitrary code
      with the privileges of the user running it, typically
      <username>root</username>.  More information, including pointers
      to patches, can be found in security advisories <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:04</ulink>
      and <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:07</ulink>.</para>

    <para>The XDR encoder/decoder does incorrect bounds-checking,
      which could allow a remote attacker to cause a
      denial-of-service.  For bugfix information, see security
      advisory <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:05.xdr.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:05</ulink>.</para>

    <para><application>OpenSSL</application> has been found
      vulnerable to two recently-disclosed attacks.  Information
      on workarounds and patches for supported security branches is
      contained in security advisory <ulink
      url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:06.openssl.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:06</ulink>.</para>

  </sect1>

  <sect1 id="late-news">
    <title>Late-Breaking News</title>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GEOM</bridgehead>

    <para>The &man.geom.4;-based disk partitioning code in the kernel
      will not allow an open partition to be overwritten.  This
      usually prevents the use of <command>disklabel -B</command> to
      update the boot blocks on a disk because the
      <literal>a</literal> partition overlaps the space where the boot
      blocks are stored.  A suggested workaround is to boot from an
      alternate disk, a CDROM, or a fixit floppy.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.dump.8;</bridgehead>

    <para>When using disk media with sector sizes larger than 512
      bytes (for instance, &man.gbde.4; encrypted disks), the
      &man.dump.8; program fails to respect the larger sector size and
      cannot dump the partition.  One possible workaround is to copy
      the entire file system in raw format and dump the copy.  It is,
      for instance, possible to dump a file system stored in a regular
      file:</para>

      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>dd if=/dev/ad0s1d.bde of=/junk/ad0.dd bs=1m</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>dump 0f - /junk/ad0.dd | ...</userinput></screen>

    <para>A simpler workaround is to use &man.tar.1; or &man.cpio.1;
      to make backup copies.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.mly.4;</bridgehead>

    <para>Hangs were reported during &os; 5.0 snapshot
      installations when installing to &man.mly.4;-supported RAID
      arrays, in hardware configurations that appear to work fine
      under &os; 4.7-RELEASE.  These problems have been corrected
      in &os; &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">NETNCP/Netware File System
      Support</bridgehead>

    <para>NETNCP and nwfs appear to be as-yet unadapted for KSE, and
      hence not working.  These have been fixed in &os;
      &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.iir.4; controller</bridgehead>

    <para>During installation, the &man.iir.4; controller appears to
      probe correctly, but finds no disk devices.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.truss.1; race condition</bridgehead>

    <para>&man.truss.1; appears to contain a race condition during the
      start-up of debugging, which can result in &man.truss.1; failing
      to attach to the process before it exists.  The symptom is that
      &man.truss.1; reports that it cannot open the &man.procfs.5;
      node supporting the process being debugged.  A bug also appears
      to exist wherein &man.truss.1; will hang if &man.execve.2;
      returns <literal>ENOENT</literal> A further race appears to
      exist in which &man.truss.1; will return <errorname>PIOCWAIT:
      Input/output error</errorname> occasionally on startup.  The fix
      for this sufficiently changes process execution handling that it
      has been deferred until after 5.0.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Disk Partitioning in Installer</bridgehead>

    <para>Some bugs have been reported in &man.sysinstall.8; disk
      partitioning.  One observed problem on the i386 is that
      &man.sysinstall.8; cannot recalculate the free space left on a
      disk after changing the type of an FDISK-type partition.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Stale Documentation</bridgehead>

    <para>In some case, documentation (such as the FAQ or Handbook)
      has not been updated to take into account &os; &release.prev;
      features.  Examples of areas where documentation is still
      needed include &man.gbde.8; and the new <quote>fast
      IPsec</quote> implementation.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">SMB File System</bridgehead>

    <para>Attempting to unmount smbfs shares may fail with
      <errorname>Device busy</errorname> errors even when the
      mount-point is not really busy.  A workaround is to keep trying
      to unmount the share until it eventually succeeds.  This bug has
      been fixed in &release.current;.</para>

    <para>Forcefully unmounting (<command>umount -f</command>) smbfs
      shares may cause a kernel panic.  This bug has been fixed in
      &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.fstat.2;</bridgehead>

    <para>When called on a connected socket file descriptor,
      &man.fstat.2; is supposed to return the number of bytes
      available to read in the <varname>st_size</varname> member of
      <varname>struct stat</varname>. However,
      <varname>st_size</varname> is always erroneously reported as
      <literal>0</literal> on TCP sockets.  This bug has been fixed in
      &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Kernel Event Queues</bridgehead>

    <para>The &man.kqueue.2; <literal>EVFILT_READ</literal> filter
      erroneously indicates that <literal>0</literal> bytes are
      available to be read on TCP sockets, regardless of the number of
      bytes that are actually available. The
      <literal>NOTE_LOWAT</literal> flag for
      <literal>EVFILT_READ</literal> is also broken on TCP sockets.
      This bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">POSIX Named Semaphores</bridgehead>

    <para>&os; &release.prev; introduced support for POSIX named semaphores
      but the implementation contains a critical bug that causes
      &man.sem.open.3; to incorrectly handle the opening of the same
      semaphore multiple times by the same process, and that causes
      &man.sem.close.3; to crash calling programs.  This bug has been
      fixed in &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3"><filename>/dev/tty</filename>
      Permissions</bridgehead>

    <para>&os; &release.prev; has a minor bug in how the permissions of
      <filename>/dev/tty</filename> are handled.  This can be
      triggered by logging in as a non-<username>root</username>,
      non-<groupname>tty</groupname> group user, and using &man.su.1;
      to switch to a second non-<username>root</username>,
      non-<groupname>tty</groupname> group user.  &man.ssh.1; will
      fail because it cannot open <filename>/dev/tty</filename>.  This
      bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.growfs.8;</bridgehead>

    <para>&man.growfs.8; no longer works on &man.vinum.4; volumes (and
      presumably, on &man.geom.4; entities) since these subsystems no
      longer fake disklabels, but &man.growfs.8; insists on examining
      a label.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">IPFW</bridgehead>

    <para>&man.ipfw.4; <literal>skipto</literal> rules do not work
      when coupled with the <literal>log</literal> keyword.
      &man.ipfw.4; <literal>uid</literal> rules also do not work
      properly.  These bugs
      have been fixed in &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Passwords and &man.adduser.8;</bridgehead>

    <para>&man.adduser.8; does not correctly handle setting user
      passwords containing special shell characters.  This problem has
      been corrected in &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.xl.4;</bridgehead>

    <para>The &man.xl.4; driver has a timing bug that may cause a
      kernel panic (or other problems) when attempting to configure an
      interface.  This bug has been fixed in &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">ISC DHCP</bridgehead>

    <para><application>ISC DHCP</application> was updated to
      3.0.1rc11.  This update was actually a part of &os;
      &release.prev;, but was not documented in the release
      notes.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">&man.amd.8;
      Interoperability</bridgehead>

    <para>&release.prev; contains some bugs in its non-blocking RPC
      code.  The most noticeable side-effect of these bugs was that
      &man.amd.8; users were not able to mount volumes from a
      &release.prev; server.  This bug has been fixed in
      &release.current;.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">nsswitch</bridgehead>

    <para>The release note documenting the addition of
      <application>nsswitch</application> support gave an incorrect
      name for the old resolver configuration file.  It should have
      been listed as <filename>/etc/host.conf</filename>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Mailman</bridgehead>

    <para>Recently the mailing lists were changed from majordomo
      to the currently used Mailman list server.  More information
      about using the new mailing lists can be found by visiting the
      <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/mailman/listinfo/">FreeBSD
      Mailman Info Page</ulink>.</para>

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