FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Errata

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FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE Errata
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Last modified on 2013-06-08 by hrs.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Security Advisories
3. Open Issues
4. Late-Breaking News and Corrections
Abstract
This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE, + “®” symbol.
Last modified on 2013-06-09 by hrs.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Security Advisories
3. Open Issues
4. Late-Breaking News and Corrections

Abstract

This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE, containing significant information discovered after the release or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the release documentation. @@ -37,7 +37,39 @@ contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).

For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/ or ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/.

2. Security Advisories

The following security advisories pertain to FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. For more information, consult the individual advisories available from - http://security.FreeBSD.org/.

Advisory	Date	Topic
SA-12:01.openssl	03 May 2012	OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities
SA-12:02.crypt	30 May 2012	Incorrect crypt() hashing
SA-12:03.bind	12 June 2012	Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in named(8)
SA-12:04.sysret	12 June 2012	Privilege escalation when returning from kernel
SA-12:05.bind	06 August 2012	named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service
SA-12:06.bind	22 November 2012	Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)
SA-12:07.hostapd	22 November 2012	Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages
SA-12:08.li nux	22 November 2012	Linux compatibility layer input validation error
SA-13:02.libc	19 February 2013	glob(3) related resource exhaustion
SA-13:03.openssl	02 April 2013	OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities
SA-13:04.bind	02 April 2013	BIND remote denial of service
SA-13:05.nfsserver	29 April 2013	Insufficient input validation in the NFS server

3. Open Issues

[20130608] FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE no longer supports FreeBSD CVS + http://security.FreeBSD.org/.

Advisory	Date	Topic
SA-12:01.openssl	03 May 2012	OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities
SA-12:02.crypt	30 May 2012	Incorrect crypt() hashing
SA-12:03.bind	12 June 2012	Incorrect handling of zero-length RDATA fields in named(8)
SA-12:04.sysret	12 June 2012	Privilege escalation when returning from kernel
SA-12:05.bind	06 August 2012	named(8) DNSSEC validation Denial of Service
SA-12:06.bind	22 November 2012	Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with named(8)
SA-12:07.hostapd	22 November 2012	Insufficient message length validation for EAP-TLS messages
SA-12:08.li nux	22 November 2012	Linux compatibility layer input validation error
SA-13:02.libc	19 February 2013	glob(3) related resource exhaustion
SA-13:03.openssl	02 April 2013	OpenSSL multiple vulnerabilities
SA-13:04.bind	02 April 2013	BIND remote denial of service
SA-13:05.nfsserver	29 April 2013	Insufficient input validation in the NFS server

3. Open Issues

[20130609] There is incompatibility in jail(8) + configuration because the jail(8) utility and + rc.d/jail script has been changed. More + specifically, the following sysctl(8) variables cannot be + used to set the default parameters for jails:

security.jail.mount_zfs_allowed
+security.jail.mount_procfs_allowed
+security.jail.mount_nullfs_allowed
+security.jail.mount_devfs_allowed
+security.jail.mount_allowed
+security.jail.chflags_allowed
+security.jail.allow_raw_sockets
+security.jail.sysvipc_allowed
+security.jail.socket_unixiproute_only
+security.jail.set_hostname_allowed

These could be set by manually using sysctl(8) utility, + the sysctl.conf(5) file, or for some of them the following + variables in rc.conf(5):

jail_set_hostname_allow="yes"
+jail_socket_unixiproute_only="yes"
+jail_sysvipc_allow="yes"

These parameters must now be specified in + jail_parameters (or + jail_jailname_parameters + for per-jail configuration) in rc.conf(5). For + example:

jail_parameters="allow.sysvipc allow.raw_sockets"

The valid keywords are the following. For more detail, see + jail(8) manual page.

allow.set_hostname
+allow.sysvipc
+allow.raw_sockets
+allow.chflags
+allow.mount
+allow.mount.devfs
+allow.mount.nullfs
+allow.mount.procfs
+allow.mount.zfs
+allow.quotas
+allow.socket_af

[20130608] FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE no longer supports FreeBSD CVS repository. Some documents mistakenly refer to RELENG_8_4_0_RELEASE as CVS tag for the release and RELENG_8_4 as CVS branch tag for the @@ -49,12 +81,8 @@ RELENG_8_4_0_RELEASE corresponds to svn://svn.FreeBSD.org/base/release/8.4.0. Please note that FreeBSD source tree for 8.4-RELEASE and its security - branch cannot be updated by using official CVSup servers.

[20130607] The bge(4) network interface driver has an - issue when TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) is enabled. It causes - intermittent reset and re-initialization.

A workaround is disabling the TSO feature. One can disable - it by adding the following line into the rc.conf(5) - file:

ifconfig_bge0="-tso"

or by using the ifconfig(8) utility manually:

# ifconfig bge0 -tso

A patch to fix this issue will be released as an Errata - Notice.

[20130606] The fxp(4) network interface driver may not + branch cannot be updated by using official CVSup servers.

[20130607] (removed about a bge(4) network interface + driver issue because it was incorrect)

[20130606] The fxp(4) network interface driver may not work well with the dhclient(8) utility. More specifically, if the /etc/rc.conf has the following line:

ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"

to activate a DHCP client to configure the network