FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Errata

The FreeBSD Project

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This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, 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 FreeBSD.

This errata document for FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE.

1 Introduction

This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. 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.

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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata” for this release.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

Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 8-STABLE also 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 8.1-RELEASE. For more -information, consult the individual advisories available from http://security.FreeBSD.org/.

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Advisory	Date	Topic
SA-09:15.ssl	3 Dec 2009	- SSL protocol flaw -
SA-09:16.rtld	3 Dec 2009	- Improper environment sanitization in -rtld(1) -
SA-09:17.freebsd-update	3 Dec 2009	- Inappropriate directory permissions in -freebsd-update(8) -
SA-10:01.bind	6 Jan 2010	- BIND -named(8) cache -poisoning with DNSSEC validation -
SA-10:02.ntpd	6 Jan 2010	- ntpd mode 7 denial of service -
SA-10:03.zfs	6 Jan 2010	- ZFS ZIL playback with insecure permissions -
SA-10:04.jail	27 May 2010	- Insufficient environment sanitization in -jail(8) -
SA-10:05.opie	27 May 2010	- OPIE off-by-one stack overflow -
SA-10:06.nfsclient	27 May 2010	- Unvalidated input in nfsclient -
SA-10:07.mbuf	13 July 2010	- Lost mbuf flag resulting in data corruption -

No advisory.

3 Open Issues

No open issues.

4 Late-Breaking News and Corrections

A deadlock can occur in UFS with the QUOTA enabled due to a lock order reversal. This problem has been fixed in r209367 (HEAD). An Errata Notice for 8.1-RELEASE is planned.

A legacy device detection in the ata(4) can fail in some cases. Specifically, Marvell 88SX6141 controllers can cause attach failure or panic. This problem has been fixed in r210168 (HEAD). An Errata Notice for 8.1-RELEASE is planned.

This file, and other release-related documents, can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/.