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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" version="5.0"> 11 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 276580 2015-01-02 21:41:39Z gjb $</pubdate> 18 19 <copyright> 20 <year>2015</year> 21 22 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The &os; Documentation 23 Project</holder> 24 </copyright> 25 26 <legalnotice xml:id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> 27 &tm-attrib.freebsd; 28 &tm-attrib.intel; 29 &tm-attrib.sparc; 30 &tm-attrib.general; 31 </legalnotice> 32 33 <abstract> 34 <para>This document lists errata items for &os; &release.prev;, 35 containing significant information discovered after the 36 release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise 37 included in the release documentation. This information 38 includes security advisories, as well as news relating to the 39 software or documentation that could affect its operation or 40 usability. An up-to-date version of this document should 41 always be consulted before installing this version of 42 &os;.</para> 43 44 <para>This errata document for &os; &release.prev; will be 45 maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;.</para> 46 </abstract> 47 </info> 48 49 <sect1 xml:id="intro"> 50 <title>Introduction</title> 51 52 <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking 53 news</quote> about &os; &release.prev; Before installing this 54 version, it is important to consult this document to learn about 55 any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have 56 been found and fixed.</para> 57 58 <para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed 59 with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be 60 out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on 61 the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current 62 errata</quote> for this release. These other copies of the 63 errata are located at <link 64 xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" />, plus any 65 sites 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 <link 72 xlink:href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"/> or <link 73 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-14:27.stdio.asc">SA-14:27.stdio</link></entry> 95 <entry>10 December 2014</entry> 96 <entry><para>Buffer overflow in stdio</para></entry> 97 </row> 98 99 <row> 100 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:28.file.asc">SA-14:28.file</link></entry> 101 <entry>10 December 2014</entry> 102 <entry><para>Multiple vulnerabilities in &man.file.1; and 103 &man.libmagic.3;</para></entry> 104 </row> 105 106 <row> 107 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:30.unbound.asc">SA-14:30.unbound</link></entry> 108 <entry>17 December 2014</entry> 109 <entry><para>Remote denial of service 110 vulnerability</para></entry> 111 </row> 112 113 <row> 114 <entry><link xlink:href="http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp.asc">SA-14:31.ntp</link></entry> 115 <entry>23 December 2014</entry> 116 <entry><para>Multiple vulnerabilities</para></entry> 117 </row> 118 </tbody> 119 </tgroup> 120 </informaltable> 121 </sect1> 122 123 <sect1 xml:id="open-issues"> 124 <title>Open Issues</title> 125 126 <itemizedlist> 127 <listitem> 128 <para>&os;/&arch.i386; &release.prev; running as a guest 129 operating system on <application>VirtualBox</application> 130 can have a problem with disk I/O access. It depends on some 131 specific hardware configuration and does not depend on a 132 specific version of <application>VirtualBox</application> or 133 host operating system.</para> 134 135 <para>It causes various errors and makes &os; quite unstable. 136 Although the cause is still unclear, disabling unmapped I/O 137 works as a workaround. To disable it, choose 138 <literal>Escape to loader prompt</literal> in the boot menu 139 and enter the following lines from &man.loader.8; prompt, 140 after an <literal>OK</literal>:</para> 141 142 <screen>set vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0 143boot</screen> 144 145 <para>Note that the following line has to be added to 146 <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> after a boot. It 147 disables unmapped I/O at every boot:</para> 148 149 <programlisting>vfs.unmapped_buf_allowed=0</programlisting> 150 151 <para>[2014-04-03 update] It has been reported that 152 instability may be present on virtual machines running 153 on other hypervisors, such as Xen or KVM.</para> 154 </listitem> 155 </itemizedlist> 156 </sect1> 157 158 <sect1 xml:id="late-news"> 159 <title>Late-Breaking News</title> 160 161 <para>No news.</para> 162 </sect1> 163</article> 164