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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD DocBook XML V5.0-Based Extension//EN" 3 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/share/xml/freebsd50.dtd" [ 4<!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN" 5 "http://www.FreeBSD.org/release/XML/release.ent"> 6%release; 7]> 8 9<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" 10 xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" 11 version="5.0"> 12 <info> 13 <title>&os; &release.prev; Errata </title> 14 15 <author><orgname>The &os; Project</orgname></author> 16 17 <pubdate>$FreeBSD: stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.xml 264074 2014-04-03 14:13:57Z gjb $</pubdate> 18 19 <copyright> 20 <year>2014</year> 21 22 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation Project</holder> 23 </copyright> 24 25 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 26 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 27 &tm-attrib.intel; 28 &tm-attrib.sparc; 29 &tm-attrib.general; 30 </legalnotice> 31 32 <abstract> 33 <para>This document lists errata items for &os; &release.prev;, 34 containing significant information discovered after the release 35 or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the 36 release documentation. 37 This information includes security advisories, as well as news 38 relating to the software or documentation that could affect its 39 operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document 40 should always be consulted before installing this version of 41 &os;.</para> 42 43 <para>This errata document for &os; &release.prev; 44 will be maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;.</para> 45 </abstract> 46 </info> 47 48 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 49 <title>Introduction</title> 50 51 <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking news</quote> 52 about &os; &release.prev; 53 Before installing this version, it is important to consult this 54 document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems 55 that may already have been found and fixed.</para> 56 57 <para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed 58 with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be 59 out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on 60 the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current 61 errata</quote> for this release. These other copies of the 62 errata are located at 63 <link xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" />, 64 plus any sites 65 which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para> 66 67 <para>Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also 68 contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of 69 the snapshot).</para> 70 71 <para>For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see 72 <link xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/" /> 73 or <link xlink:href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/" />.</para> 74 </sect1> 75 76 <sect1 xml:id="security"> 77 <title>Security Advisories</title> 78 79 <informaltable frame="none" pgwide="0"> 80 <tgroup cols="3"> 81 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 82 <colspec colwidth="1*" /> 83 <colspec colwidth="3*" /> 84 <thead> 85 <row> 86 <entry>Advisory</entry> 87 <entry>Date</entry> 88 <entry>Topic</entry> 89 </row> 90 </thead> 91 92 <tbody> 93 <row> 94 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-13:14.openssh.asc" 95 >SA-13:14.openssh</link></entry> 96 97 <entry>19 November 2013</entry> 98 99 <entry><para>OpenSSH AES-GCM memory corruption 100 vulnerability</para></entry> 101 </row> 102 103 <row> 104 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:01.bsnmpd.asc" 105 >SA-14:01.bsnmpd</link></entry> 106 107 <entry>14 January 2014</entry> 108 109 <entry><para>bsnmpd remote denial of service vulnerability</para></entry> 110 </row> 111 112 <row> 113 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc" 114 >SA-14:02.ntpd</link></entry> 115 116 <entry>14 January 2014</entry> 117 118 <entry><para>ntpd distributed reflection Denial of Service vulnerability</para></entry> 119 </row> 120 121 <row> 122 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:03.openssl.asc" 123 >SA-14:03.openssl</link></entry> 124 125 <entry>14 January 2014</entry> 126 127 <entry><para>OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry> 128 </row> 129 130 <row> 131 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:04.bind.asc" 132 >SA-14:04.bind</link></entry> 133 134 <entry>14 January 2014</entry> 135 136 <entry><para>BIND remote denial of service vulnerability</para></entry> 137 </row> 138 </tbody> 139 </tgroup> 140 </informaltable> 141 </sect1> 142 143 <sect1 xml:id="open-issues"> 144 <title>Open Issues</title> 145 146 <itemizedlist> 147 <listitem> 148 <para>&os;/&arch.i386; &release.prev; running as a guest 149 operating system on <application>VirtualBox</application> 150 can have a problem with disk I/O access. It depends on some 151 specific hardware configuration and does not depend on a 152 specific version of <application>VirtualBox</application> or 153 host operating system.</para> 154 155 <para>It causes various errors and makes &os; quite unstable. 156 Although the cause is still unclear, disabling unmapped I/O 157 works as a workaround. To disable it, choose <literal>Escape to 158 loader prompt</literal> in the boot menu and enter the following 159 lines from &man.loader.8; prompt, after 160 an <literal>OK</literal>:</para> 161 162 <screen>set vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0 163boot</screen> 164 165 <para>Note that the following line has to be added to 166 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> after a boot. 167 It disables unmapped I/O at every boot:</para> 168 169 <programlisting>vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0</programlisting> 170 171 <para>[2014-04-03 update] It has been reported that 172 instability may be present on virtual machines running 173 on other hypervisors, such as Xen or KVM.</para> 174 </listitem> 175 176 <listitem> 177 <para>A bug in <application>Heimdal</application> (an 178 implementation of <application>Kerberos</application> 179 authentication in &os; base system) has been fixed. It 180 could cause an interoperability issue between 181 <application>Heimdal</application> and the other 182 implementations including <application>MIT 183 Kerberos</application>. However, due to this fix, 184 <application>Heimdal</application> and some applications 185 which depend on it in the previous &os; releases do not work 186 with one in &release.prev; in certain cases. Errata Notice 187 for the supported releases to fix it will be 188 released.</para> 189 </listitem> 190 191 <listitem> 192 <para>A bug in &man.killall.1; has been discovered. It 193 makes <userinput>killall -INT</userinput> to deliver 194 <literal>SIGTERM</literal> rather than the desired 195 <literal>SIGINT</literal>, and may cause blocking 196 behavior for scripts that uses it, as <literal>-I</literal> 197 means <quote>interactive</quote>. A workaround of this 198 would be to use <literal>-SIGINT</literal> instead. 199 This bug has been fixed on &os;-CURRENT and will be fixed 200 in &os; &release.current;.</para> 201 </listitem> 202 203 <listitem> 204 <para>The &man.bxe.4; driver can cause packet corruption when 205 TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) feature is enabled. This 206 feature is enabled by default and can be disabled by using a 207 <option>-tso</option> parameter of &man.ifconfig.8;. It can 208 be specified in &man.rc.conf.5; like the following:</para> 209 210 <programlisting>ifconfig_bxe0="DHCP -tso"</programlisting> 211 212 <para>This bug has been fixed on &os; &release.current;.</para> 213 </listitem> 214 215 <listitem> 216 <para>Due to a minor incompatibility with &man.pkg.7; version 217 <literal>1.2.x</literal>, &man.bsdconfig.8; will duplicate 218 the list of available packages for installation. This is 219 due to the <literal>PACKAGESITE</literal> environment 220 variable being set for backwards compatibility with older 221 versions of &man.pkg.7;. This affects generation of the 222 available package list only, and does not affect the 223 behavior when processing packages for installation.</para> 224 </listitem> 225 226 <listitem> 227 <para>A regression in &man.pw.8; does not remove a user from 228 groups not specified in the provided group list when the 229 <literal>-G</literal> flag is used. This is expected to be 230 corrected in &os;-CURRENT and &os; &release.current;.</para> 231 </listitem> 232 233 <listitem> 234 <para>&man.ipfw.8; <literal>fwd</literal> action can send 235 packets to the correct interface with a wrong link-layer 236 address when the route is updated. This bug has been fixed 237 on &os;-CURRENT and will be fixed in &os; 238 &release.current;.</para> 239 </listitem> 240 241 <listitem> 242 <para>The &man.mount.udf.8; utility has a bug which prevents 243 it from mounting any UDF file system. This has been fixed 244 in &os;-CURRENT and &os; &release.current;.</para> 245 </listitem> 246 </itemizedlist> 247 </sect1> 248 249 <sect1 xml:id="late-news"> 250 <title>Late-Breaking News</title> 251 252 <para>No news.</para> 253 </sect1> 254</article> 255