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This file lists the major changes made between Owl releases. While some of the changes listed here may also be made to a stable branch, the complete lists of stable branch changes are included with those branches and as errata for the corresponding Owl releases only.

This is very far from an exhaustive list of changes. Small changes to individual packages won't be mentioned here unless they fix a security or a critical reliability problem. They are, however, mentioned in change logs for the packages themselves.

Security fixes have a "Severity" specified for the issue(s) being fixed. The three comma-separated metrics given after "Severity:" are: risk impact (low, medium, or high), attack vector (local, remote, or indirect), and whether the attack may be carried out at will (active) or not (passive). Please note that the specified risk impact is just that, it is not the overall severity, so other metrics are not factored into it. For example, a "high" impact "local, passive" issue is generally of lower overall severity than a "high" impact "remote, active" one - this is left up to our users to consider given their specific circumstances.

Per our current conventions, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability is generally considered to have a "low" risk impact (even if it is a "remote, active" one, which is to be considered separately as it may make the vulnerability fairly critical under specific circumstances). Some examples of "medium" impact vulnerabilities would be bugs enabling non-critical information leaks, cryptographic signature forgeries, and/or sending of or accepting spoofed/forged network traffic (where such behavior was unexpected), as long as they would not directly allow for a "high" impact attack. Finally, a typical "high" impact vulnerability would allow for privilege escalation such as ability to execute code as another user ID than the attacker's (a "local" attack) or without "legitimately" having such an ability (a "remote" attack).

The metrics specified are generally those for a worst case scenario, however in certain cases ranges such as "none to low" or/and "local to remote" may be specified, referring to the defaults vs. a worst case yet "legitimate" custom configuration. In some complicated cases, multiple issues or attacks may be dealt with at once. When those differ in their severity metrics, we use slashes to denote the possible combinations. For example, "low/none to high, remote/local" means that we've dealt with issue(s) or attack(s) that are "low, remote" and those that are "none to high, local". In those tricky cases, we generally try to clarify the specific issue(s) and their severities in the description.

Changes made between Owl 2.0 and Owl 3.0.

2010/12/13 -
2010/12/14	Owl/build/{installworld.sh,installorder.conf}

Various corrections were made to "make installworld" to better support upgrades from ("installs over") Owl 2.0.

2010/12/13	Package: perl
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, remote, active

Added security fix backports found in Red Hat's 5.8.8-32.el5.2. These are for a double-free bug triggerable via malicious regexps with UTF-8 characters (CVE-2008-1927), Safe.pm restrictions bypass (CVE-2010-1168), and race conditions in the rmtree function in File::Path (CVE-2008-5302, CVE-2008-5303). Despite of these fixes, we recommend that regexps not be obtained or formed from untrusted input, Safe.pm not be used at all (it is regarded by many as a failed experiment and is a candidate for removal from the core Perl distribution), and rmtree not be used on directory trees potentially under an attacker's control. References:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48156
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1927
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/05/20/5
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-rc@lists.debian.org/msg220612.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0458.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1168
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/28/2
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5302
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5303

2010/12/09	Packages: owl-cdrom, owl-setup

Added new boot label called "safe" to the CD boot menu. Currently, this adds the "acpi=ht" kernel parameter (for machines that have problems with ACPI support), which "settle" propagates into the installed system.

2010/12/08	Package: kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: medium to high, local, active

Updated the kernel to OpenVZ's latest from their "RHEL5 testing" branch (2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.1). Fixed "dangerous interaction between clear_child_tid, set_fs(), and kernel oopses" (CVE-2010-4258, problem discovered and fix proposed by Nelson Elhage of Ksplice). Merged many security-relevant patches from Red Hat's 2.6.18-236.el5 (mostly for infoleaks discovered by Dan Rosenberg, as well as his patch introducing the dmesg_restrict sysctl and CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT). Merged Red Hat's fix for "Bug 614957 - ext4: mount error path corrupts slab memory" (the bug could be triggered by a sysadmin making a typo in a "mount" command or in /etc/fstab). References:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5-testing/028stab079.1
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4258
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/02/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/08/4
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0839.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0723.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=614957

2010/12/06	Package: vim

Updated to 7.3 patchlevel 75. Moved most syntax highlighting files and translations of VIM messages to separate subpackages that are not to be installed by default.

2010/12/06	Package: man-pages

Updated to 3.32.

2010/12/04	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.4.15.

2010/12/04	Packages: bash, tcsh

The default shell prompts have been revised to be directly reusable on ssh and scp command-lines.

2010/11/30	Package: cvs
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to medium, local, passive to active

Applied upstream's fix to an array index error, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, found in the way CVS applied certain delta fragment changes from input files in the RCS (Revision Control System) file format. If an attacker in control of a CVS repository stored a specially-crafted RCS file in that repository, this could result in arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the CVS server process on the system hosting the CVS repository when a remote user eventually checks out a revision of the affected file. References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3846
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/cvs/ccvs/src/rcs.c?r1=1.262.4.65&r2=1.262.4.66
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642146

2010/11/25	Package: xz

Updated to 5.0.0.

2010/11/25	Package: lftp

Updated to 4.1.1.

2010/11/15	Package: man-pages

Updated to 3.31.

2010/11/15	Package: smartmontools

Updated to 5.40.

2010/11/15	Package: SysVinit

Updated to 2.88dsf.

2010/11/09	Package: man-pages

Updated to 3.30.

2010/11/09	Package: iptables

Updated to 1.4.10.

2010/11/05	Package: cdrkit

Updated to 1.1.11.

2010/10/31	Package: gnupg

Updated to 1.4.11.

2010/10/27	Package: man-pages

Updated to 3.29.

2010/10/27	Package: hdparm

Updated to 9.35.

2010/10/18	Package: pam
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to medium, local, active

Updated to 1.1.2+ snapshot 20101011. This code revision introduces the proper privilege switching into pam_env, pam_mail, and pam_xauth. None of these modules are in use on default installs of Owl, and they never were, hence there was no impact for default installs. References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/16/2
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3316
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/21/3
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3435
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3430
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3431

2010/10/06 -
2010/10/16	Package: vim

Updated to 7.3 patchlevel 21, made numerous changes to the package.

2010/10/15	Package: ncurses

Updated to 5.7-20101009.

2010/10/15	Package: flex

Updated to 2.5.35.

2010/10/11	Package: diffstat

Updated to 1.54.

2010/10/07	Package: man-pages

Updated to 3.28.

2010/10/07	Package: ed

Updated to 1.5.

2010/10/07	Package: hdparm

Updated to 9.33.

2010/10/04	Package: binutils

Updated to 2.20.51.0.11.

2010/09/24	Package: hdparm

Updated to 9.32.

2010/09/24	Package: kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, local, active

Updated the kernel to OpenVZ's latest from their "RHEL5 testing" branch (2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.028stab071.5). Added a fix for the compat_alloc_user_space() function missing sanity checks (CVE-2010-3081) from OpenVZ's 028stab070.5 (the same as Red Hat's from their -194.11.4 RHEL5 kernel). This was a "local root" vulnerability on 64-bit kernels built with 32-bit compatibility enabled. References:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5-testing/028stab071.5
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab070.5
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3081
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634457
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0704.html
https://access.redhat.com/articles/40258

2010/09/21	Package: grep

Updated to 2.7.

2010/09/21	Package: bzip2
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Updated to 1.0.6. This release fixes an integer overflow vulnerability discovered by Mikolaj Izdebski in the BZ2_decompress function in bzip2/libbz2. An attacker could use the vulnerability to crash bzip2 or an application using libbz2 or potentially to execute arbitrary code via a crafted "bzip2-compressed" file. References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0405
https://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/cve-2010-0405-bzip2-integer-overflow/

2010/09/02 -
2010/09/18	Package: pam_mktemp

Revised pam_mktemp in multiple ways mostly relevant to (re)uses of this module on systems other than Owl.

2010/09/06	Package: rpm

Backported xz/lzma support for Source and Patch files, as well as for package payloads.

2010/09/06	Package: xz

New package: data compression library and a set of gzip-style tools for working with files compressed with the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA). It supports two formats: .xz and the older .lzma format.

2010/09/06	Package: lftp

Updated to 4.0.10.

2010/09/01 -
2010/09/03	Packages: openssh, owl-cdrom, owl-dev, owl-setup,
		owl-startup, rpm, iputils

Assorted minor improvements have been made and/or bugfixes applied to these Owl packages (as usual, more detail is available in the packages' change logs).

2010/08/30 -
2010/09/03	Package: kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: low to high, local, active

Updated the kernel to OpenVZ's latest from their "RHEL5 testing" branch (2.6.18-194.11.3.el5.028stab071.3), applied some additional bugfixes, and of course preserved our usual changes. Enabled CONFIG_FUSION_* and CONFIG_PCNET32 (as modules) for easier Owl installation into VMware and VirtualBox VMs. References:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5-testing/028stab071.3
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5-testing/028stab071.2
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab070.4
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0661.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0610.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/16/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/27/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/30/3

2010/08/19 -
2010/09/01	Package: m4

Updated to 1.4.15.

2010/09/01	Package: file

Updated to 5.04.

2010/09/01	Package: acct

Updated to 6.5.4.

2010/08/30	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.3.2.

2010/08/29	Package: mktemp

Updated to 1.7.

2010/08/29	Package: hdparm

Updated to 9.30.

2010/08/28	Package: ltrace

Updated to 0.5.3-2.1.

2010/08/27	Package: grep

Updated to 2.6.3.

2010/08/27	Package: sed

Updated to 4.2.1.

2010/08/24	Package: iptables

Updated to 1.4.9.1.

2010/08/24	Package: cdrkit

Updated to 1.1.10.

2010/08/24	Package: gawk

Updated to 3.1.8.

2010/08/24	Package: diffstat

Updated to 1.53.

2010/08/19	Package: man

Updated to 1.6f.

2010/08/19	Package: man-pages

Updated to 3.25.

2010/08/18	Package: bison

Updated to 2.4.3.

2010/08/18	Package: diffutils

Updated to 3.0.

2010/08/17	Package: e2fsprogs

Updated to 1.41.12.

2010/07/29	Package: lftp

Updated to 4.0.9.

2010/07/28	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.4.14.

2010/07/28	Package: openssh

The SSH client will now use protocol 2 by default (finally).

2010/07/27	Packages: owl-startup, modutils

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit has been enhanced and corrected in numerous ways: it will disable the console screensaver (such that datacenter staff may see the last console messages without connecting a keyboard or even if the system freezes), distinguish more kinds of fsck exit codes and act accordingly, and use "depmod -A" instead of "depmod -a" (to avoid rebuilding of kernel module dependencies unnecessarily). The default /etc/sysctl.conf will now explicitly set vm.mmap_min_addr to a reasonable non-zero value (currently 96 KB), not relying on the kernel to have a similar default anymore (although our kernel does).

2010/07/19 -
2010/07/28	Packages: owl-setup, owl-etc, owl-hier;
		Owl/build/install{iso,vz}tree.sh

Added ext4 filesystem support - in fact, "settle" (the Owl installer program) will now offer ext4 by default, with ext3 and ext2 still available as non-default per-filesystem choices. Made the menus, prompts, and messages of both "settle" and "setup" hopefully more intuitive by clearly indicating which steps are optional, required, or recommended (and the like), having a bit fewer menu items (where some could be dropped or replaced without a loss of functionality for any of our users), revising menu item names and hint messages, and offering likely-correct inputs as defaults. Revised the console font/map presets for Cyrillic and Western European encodings. Almost all on-disk filesystems are now mounted with "noatime" by default (for better performance), and a /sys mountpoint and fstab entry (for sysfs) are now created by default (with "noauto").

2010/07/24	Package: owl-cdrom

Revised the LILO boot menu, leaving only two boot targets: "normal" and "rescue". This makes use of the new kernel's boot CD/DVD drive device autodetection. Revised the "welcome" script to reflect other changes, and enhanced it in numerous minor ways.

2010/07/17 -
2010/07/21	Packages: kernel, lilo, owl-cdrom, owl-setup;
		Owl/build/{install*.sh,Makefile}; Owl/doc/*
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, local, active

Updated the kernel to OpenVZ's latest from their rhel5 branch (2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.028stab070.2) with minor additional changes in Owl. As usual, this kernel version contains a number of security fixes (mostly backports made by Red Hat). The security impact of CVE-2010-0291 ("mremap/mmap mess"), if any, on x86 and x86-64 systems is difficult to determine. The remaining issues fixed were NULL pointer dereferences (the impact of which had been reduced to a DoS due to vm.mmap_min_addr) and/or were in kernel subsystems not built on Owl by default. At the same time with making this update, the kernel has been RPM-packaged, but in a way allowing for easy non-packaged builds as well (there are only two cumulative patch files). AHCI vs. Marvell PATA driver co-existence fixes have been backported from Linux 2.6.34.1. Boot CD/DVD drive device autodetection has been implemented (needed to locate the root filesystem when booting off a CD/DVD with LILO). ext4 filesystem support has been enabled. References:
https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel5/028stab070.2
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0504.html

2010/06/14	Package: john

Updated to 1.7.6, including usability improvements relevant to the Owl package of John the Ripper.

2010/06/07	Package: tcb

Updated to 1.0.6.

2010/05/04	Package: lftp
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, remote, passive

Updated to 4.0.7. This changes the default behavior of lftp(1) and the lftpget(1) script to no longer trust and use a possible server-provided filename instead of the user-specified download filename. Reference:
https://ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2010-001.html

2010/04/14	Package: strace

Updated to 4.5.20.

2010/03/27	Package: passwdqc

In passwdqc 1.2.1, a password strength check has been adjusted to no longer subject certain passwords that start with a digit and/or end with a capital letter to an unintentionally stricter policy.

2010/03/22	kernel;
		Owl/build/buildkernel.sh;
		Package: owl-cdrom
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, remote, active

Updated the kernel to OpenVZ's latest from their "rhel5" branch (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.028stab068.5 released on 2010/03/18) with Red Hat's patches up to 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 added (apparently prepared by Red Hat on 2010/03/01, released and announced on 2010/03/16), and with some minor changes of our own. We call the resulting kernel version 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.028stab068.5-owl1. Compared to earlier "rhel5" kernels, this update fixes a large number of vulnerabilities of varying impact in various kernel subsystems, which may or may not have been exposed in specific circumstances.

2010/03/11 -
2010/03/21	Packages: tar, cpio
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Updated tar to 1.23, which includes a fix for the heap-based buffer overflow in the rmt client functionality (CVE-2010-0624), and applied a fix for the same vulnerability to cpio. The attack would require either that an rmt server being used by tar or cpio on purpose is compromised first (by other means) or that these tools are fooled into accessing a malicious rmt server, such as via having them run on a malicious filename. The latter risk was mitigated by tar's default to use ssh for the --rsh-command and by ssh defaulting to asking the user before accepting an unrecognized host key. In cpio's case, it was mitigated by cpio requiring the --rsh-command option to use rmt. With our update to tar, we have also patched it to require its --rsh-command option to use rmt (just like cpio does), and we applied a number of post-release fixes for regressions introduced in the 1.23 release. References:
http://www.agrs.tu-berlin.de/index.php?id=78327
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0624
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-03/msg00036.html

2010/03/20	Package: hdparm

Updated to 9.28.

2010/03/20	Package: pciutils

Updated to 3.1.7.

2010/03/19	Package: libnids

Updated to 1.24.

2010/03/13 -
2010/03/16	Package: passwdqc

Enhanced passwdqc in numerous ways bringing it up to version 1.2.0.

2010/03/15	Package: quota

Updated to 3.17.

2010/03/05	Package: tcsh

Updated to 6.17.00.

2010/02/26	Package: john

Several minor features were added and usability improvements made to John the Ripper, bringing it up to version 1.7.5.

2010/02/11 -
2010/02/25	Package: tcb

Updated to 1.0.5.

2010/02/15	Package: vim

Updated to 7.2 patchlevel 351. Introduced new subpackages -spell and -tutor (not installed by default).

2010/02/11	Package: glibc

Replaced linuxthreads with NPTL.

2010/02/02	Package: gzip

Updated to 1.4.

2010/01/28	Owl/build/{Makefile,installworld.conf,installworld.sh,
		installvztree.sh,makevztemplate.sh}

Implemented "make vztemplate" - a make target to easily generate OpenVZ container templates of the Owl userland. The resulting templates may be used on Owl and/or on other Linux systems with OpenVZ.

2010/01/24 -
2010/01/28	Package: nmap

Updated to 5.21 with our usual enhancements for privilege reduction.

2010/01/21 -
2010/01/26	Package: pciutils

Updated to 3.1.6.

2010/01/20	Package: gzip
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, indirect, passive

Applied upstream's fix for an integer underflow leading to an array index error in the way gzip used to decompress data compressed with the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression algorithm. An attacker could provide a specially-crafted LZW-compressed gzip archive, which once decompressed by an unsuspecting user on a 64-bit system would lead to a gzip crash or potentially to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running gzip. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0001

2009/12/17 -
2010/01/18	Package: john

John the Ripper has been enhanced in numerous ways, bringing it up to version 1.7.4.2. Functionality and performance of the word mangling rules engine have been improved, the default rulesets and the bundled common passwords list have been revised, performance with very large password files or sets of files has been improved, idle priority has been enabled by default. References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2009/12/26/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2010/01/19/1

2009/11/30	Package: libtool
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, local, passive

Applied upstream's backport of libltdl changes from the libtool 2.26b release: no longer attempt to dlopen() the old_library listed in .la files, and do not open module.la files from the current directory. No Owl packages use libltdl and therefore none are vulnerable, but third-party software could be abused by e.g. creating a malicious .la file and tricking a privileged user into executing a libltdl-based application in the same directory. References:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2009-11/msg00059.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3736

2009/11/28	Package: rpm;
		Owl/build/buildworld.sh;
		Owl/doc/{ARCHITECTURES,BUILD}

On 32-bit x86, packages are now built for the i686 architecture flavor by default.

2009/11/23	Packages: vzctl, vzquota;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

New packages: tools to create/control/examine/destroy OpenVZ containers.

2009/11/20 -
2009/11/23	kernel;
		Owl/build/buildkernel.sh;
		Packages: owl-cdrom, procps, util-linux

The default kernel has been replaced with OpenVZ's latest from their "rhel5" branch, with some modifications of our own (mostly for better compatibility with the Owl userland, as well as for security). Formally, this was forked off Linux 2.6.18 (originally by Red Hat), but the changes are so extensive that this is actually an up-to-date kernel branch/version on its own, including Red Hat's backports of security fixes (and a lot more) and OpenVZ's container-based virtualization. This kernel branch is currently maintained by both Red Hat (for RHEL5) and OpenVZ. The specific version number we're currently using is 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.8-owl0.2.

2009/11/20	Package: gcc;
		Owl/build/{installorder.conf,installworld.sh}

Dropped two older libstdc++-*-compat subpackages, which were providing binary compatibility for C++ programs built with gcc 2.x.

2009/11/20	Package: ipchains;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

Dropped package: ipchains has been obsoleted by iptables for years, but we kept it in Owl to ease transition of existing systems from Linux 2.2 to Linux 2.4 kernels (which still included optional kernel support for ipchains). Now that we're dropping support for Linux 2.4, it is also high time to drop ipchains, so we did. iptables, the replacement, has been a part of Owl for years.

2009/11/18	Package: diffstat

Updated to 1.51.

2009/11/18	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.2.2.

2009/11/17	kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, local, active

Updated to Linux 2.4.37.7-ow1. The 2.4.37.7 kernel fixes a number of security-related bugs.

2009/10/25	kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to medium, local, active

Updated to Linux 2.4.37.6-ow1. The 2.4.37.6 kernel fixes a number of information leak vulnerabilities. One of these was already fixed in 2.4.37.5-ow1, and the remaining ones may or may not affect specific systems depending on both kernel and userspace configuration.

2009/10/24	Package: xinetd

Updated to 2.3.14.

2009/10/24	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.2.1.

2009/10/21	Package: vim

Updated to 7.2 patchlevel 267.

2009/10/21	Package: strace

Updated to 4.5.19.

2009/10/13	Package: e2fsprogs

Updated to 1.41.9.

2009/10/13	Package: cpio

Updated to 2.10.90.

2009/09/28 -
2009/10/10	Packages: pam, pam_passwdqc, passwdqc;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

The pam_passwdqc package has been replaced with passwdqc, a new package, which includes pam_passwdqc(8) (the PAM module), libpasswdqc (a password/passphrase strength checking library), pwqcheck(1) (a standalone password/passphrase strength checking program), and pwqgen(1) (a standalone random passphrase generator program).

2009/09/23	Package: iptables

Updated to 1.4.5.

2009/09/22	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.2.0.

2009/09/09	Package: gnupg

Updated to 1.4.10.

2009/09/01 -
2009/09/09	Packages: rpm, *;
		Owl/build/{buildworld.conf,buildworld.sh}

Many RPM spec files have been adjusted and a new tri-state setting has been introduced into buildworld.conf to control whether the testsuites are to be run. The default is to run most tests, other possible settings are to run all of the tests (including extremely slow ones) or to disable all tests.

2009/09/07	Package: elinks

Updated to 0.11.7.

2009/08/31	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.4.13.

2009/08/30	Package: ed

Updated to 1.4.

2009/08/30	Package: bison

Updated to 2.4.1.

2009/08/28	Package: pam

Updated to 1.1.0.

2009/08/25	Package: m4

Updated to 1.4.13.

2009/08/23	kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high/medium, local, active

Updated to Linux 2.4.37.5-ow1. The 2.4.37.5 kernel adds a fix for the "Linux NULL pointer dereference due to incorrect proto_ops initializations", which on Owl was not exploitable into privilege escalation on its own due to the vm.mmap_min_addr feature, as long as the latter was enabled and working (there have been no known issues with it in recent kernels). In our patched kernels, vm.mmap_min_addr is enabled by default. Additionally, our default kernels did not include support for any socket types via which the bug is known to be triggerable. More importantly, Linux 2.4.37.5-ow1 adds a fix for the sigaltstack local information leak affecting 64-bit kernel builds. References:
http://lists.openwall.net/bugtraq/2009/08/13/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/14/2
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2692
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/05/1
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2847

2009/08/22	Package: rpm

Introduced the configure-presets script, which pre-defines a bunch of autoconf variables in order to achieve more deterministic and slightly quicker builds. Most importantly, this makes the configure scripts of many other packages assume the presence of certain security-relevant interfaces (fail-close behavior) rather than auto-detect those and possibly fallback to other interfaces (fail-open behavior). The configure-presets script is automatically "sourced" before the %build section commands are invoked (including when our rpmbuild(8) is used to build third-party packages), and it may also be explicitly "sourced" for manual builds of autoconf'ed software by Owl users.

2009/08/17	Package: tar

Updated to 1.22.90, which replaces most of our error handling fixes originally implemented in the Owl package of tar in Nov-Dec 2008 with more elaborate changes by Sergey Poznyakoff. Dropped the --ignore-device-id option in favor of its official name of --no-check-device. References:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2009-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2009-08/msg00016.html

2009/08/16	Package: findutils

Updated to 4.4.2. With this update, we're switching to the find(1) implementation based around fts(3) instead of GNU find's "own" directory traversal code.

2009/08/15	Package: mktemp

Updated to 1.6 with minor post-1.6 upstream changes.

2009/08/14	Package: groff
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, local/indirect, passive

Corrected pdfroff(1) to create temporary files in a safe manner and to invoke gs(1) (Ghostscript) with the -dSAFER option to make it treat the input file as untrusted. pdfroff had been introduced into Owl with the groff update on 2009/08/06. Before getting corrected, the temporary files issue was mitigated by pdfroff's use of the TMPDIR environment variable, which our pam_mktemp module sets to point to the user's private directory. Additionally, for pdfroff to work and for the lack of the -dSAFER option to come into play, one would need to install Ghostscript first, which was not a part of Owl. Besides fixing pdfroff, we have identified and patched numerous relatively minor temporary file handling issues in other components of the new version of groff. Thanks to brian m. carlson for identifying and reporting the two pdfroff issues to Debian. References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/09/1
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538330
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538338

2009/08/06	Package: logrotate

Updated to 3.7.8.

2009/08/06	Package: groff

Updated to 1.20.1.

2009/08/03	kernel

Updated to Linux 2.4.37.4-ow1. The 2.4.37.4 kernel integrates a replacement for the "personality" hardening measure introduced in 2.4.37.3-ow1.

2009/07/29	Package: chkconfig

Updated to 1.3.42.

2009/07/28	Package: bind
SECURITY FIX	Severity: low, remote, active

Backported upstream fix for a remote DoS bug: by sending a specially crafted dynamic update packet to a BIND server, a remote unauthenticated attacker could cause the server to crash. According to the ISC and to our own testing, this vulnerability affects servers that are masters for one or more zones - it is not limited to those that are configured to allow dynamic updates. Our default BIND configuration includes several master zones, such as 127.in-addr.arpa, which are usable for the attack. BIND's own access controls (such as the "allow-query" directive) are ineffective against the attack. References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538975
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/725188
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0696

2009/07/20	kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, local to remote, active

Updated to Linux 2.4.37.3-ow1. The 2.4.37.3 kernel release adds the "-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks" option to gcc invocations, which is important to reduce the impact of a class of kernel bugs (which are yet to be found and fixed individually, but are known to exist in general), adds several security-relevant fixes to the RTL-8169 NIC driver, and makes other assorted changes. The Linux 2.4.37.3-ow1 kernel patch introduces an additional security hardening measure where the kernel will no longer allow the "personality" feature (which is needed to support some program binaries from other operating systems) to be abused to bypass the vm.mmap_min_addr restriction via SUID-root programs with a certain class of design errors in them. Similar changes were introduced into 2.6.x kernels recently. References:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/a3ca86aea507904148870946d599e07a340b39bf
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/16/1
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1895

2009/07/18 -
2009/07/19	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.2.0pre4, which officially reverts the default for "listen" back to NO (the way we had it in Owl all the time) and implements the "-o" option (the syntax and semantics are subtly different from what we had in our own implementation). Reference:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2009-July/000322.html

2009/07/16 -
2009/07/19	Package: nmap

Updated to 5.00 with our usual enhancements for privilege reduction and with some post-release fixes. Enabled build of Ncat (an even more powerful remake of the well-known netcat tool, which we previously had represented in Owl with OpenBSD's remake) and build of Nmap with NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) support enabled. Ncat gets into its own binary subpackage called "ncat" and installable independently of "nmap". Reference:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/owl-users/2009/07/19/1

2009/07/15	Package: dhcp
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to low, remote, active

Updated to 3.0.7. Fixed the DHCP server premature termination bug when receiving certain well-formed DHCP requests, provided that the server configuration mixes host definitions using "dhcp-client-identifier" and "hardware ethernet". It has not been fully researched whether the bug had any impact on versions 3.0.x of the DHCP server, and there is a specific reason why it might not have had any impact, yet we're fixing the underlying bug. Discovery and patch by Christoph Biedl. References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1892
http://www.openwall.com/lists/owl-users/2009/07/16/1

2009/07/11	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.4.11.

2009/07/08	Package: chkconfig

Updated to 1.3.38.

2009/07/07	kernel
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, remote, active

Updated to Linux 2.4.37.2-ow1. The 2.4.37.2 kernel release adds several bug fixes, including security-relevant ones.

2009/07/07	Package: openssh
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, remote, active

Backported upstream fix for a syslog call inside a signal handler. The security impact this issue might have had was not fully evaluated. On Debian systems, the reported impact was processes getting stuck on locks inside glibc. On Owl, no problems were ever reported, yet the call was unsafe, with the worst-case impact being arbitrary code execution (depending on processing inside glibc). References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498678
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4109

2009/07/05	Package: man-pages

Updated to 3.21.

2009/06/17	Package: dmidecode;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

New package: dmidecode reports information about x86 & x86-64 hardware as described in the system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.

2009/06/10	Package: pciutils;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

New package: pciutils contains utilities for inspecting and setting up devices connected to the PCI bus.

2009/05/27 -
2009/05/29	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.1.1, keeping the default at listen=NO (overriding upstream's change of default). Added the new option "-o", which can be used to specify configuration settings via the command line.

2009/05/27	Package: pcre

Updated to 7.9.

2009/05/25	Package: patchutils

Updated to 0.3.1.

2009/05/24	kernel; Package: owl-cdrom
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, local, active

Updated to Linux 2.4.37.1-ow1. In the default kernels for x86 and x86-64, enabled SCSI generic support (as needed for CD/DVD recording), UDF filesystem support (read-only), and more SATA and NIC drivers. Linux 2.4.37.1, compared to 2.4.35-ow2, adds numerous security-relevant fixes to various kernel subsystems.

2009/05/24	Package: diffstat

Updated to 1.47.

2009/05/06 -
2009/05/22	Packages: cdrkit, mkisofs, owl-dev;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

New package: cdrkit is a suite of programs for recording CDs and DVDs, blanking CD-RW media, creating ISO-9660 filesystem images, extracting audio CD data, and more. This obsoletes our mkisofs source package, which was directly based on cdrtools (of which cdrkit is a fork).

2009/05/21	Package: nmap

Updated to 4.76.

2009/05/15	Package: libnids

Updated to 1.23.

2009/05/09	Package: hdparm

Updated to 9.15.

2009/05/02	Package: e2fsprogs

Updated to 1.41.5.

2009/04/08	Package: tcb

In the new version 1.0.3 of the tcb package, child processes spawned by pam_tcb will now always use _exit(2) rather than exit(3) to avoid triggering side effects. When changing passwords, pam_tcb will now fsync(2) the temporary file prior to renaming it over the actual shadow file, as needed on filesystems with not entirely atomic rename(2) (XFS). Thanks to Pascal Terjan of Mandriva and to Ermanno Scaglione for reporting these two issues, respectively.

2009/03/06	Package: bind

Dropped the root-delegation-only directive from the default named configuration because the list of TLDs that are not delegation-only was incomplete and wouldn't be maintained/updated on all installs, causing some DNS lookups of valid records to fail. Reference:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217829

2009/02/06	Package: bind

Dropped DNSSEC support, which is not useful on the Internet at large yet. Those who wish to experiment with DNSSEC at their own risk may set BUILD_OPENSSL to 1 and rebuild the package.

2009/01/08	Packages: openssl, bind
SECURITY FIX	Severity: medium, remote, passive

Backported upstream fixes for multiple OpenSSL signature verification API misuses. References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/07/2
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20090107.txt
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5077

2008/11/02	Package: tar

Updated to 1.20.

2008/08/14	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.4.8, disabled the Solaris symlink hack that allowed local mail deliveries through "root-owned" symlinks. Although this is a security update for some other systems, on Owl the problem was avoided or mitigated in several ways:
- we have a patch, introduced prior to Owl 2.0, that adds the local_minimum_uid setting with a default of 500 - preventing local mail deliveries to user "root" (unless it is correctly setup as an alias to some other e-mail address), as well as to other system special accounts;
- there's no potential attack vector to get group "mail" privileges on Owl with no third-party software added - no single program is installed SGID "mail";
- the mail spool directory is only writable by root and group "mail" (not world-writable), yet it has the sticky bit set (mode 1771), which prevents the attack for already-existing mailboxes;
- "useradd -m", which must be used to create a user account with a home directory, also pre-creates the mailbox;
- our default kernel includes the CONFIG_HARDEN_LINK option, enabled by default, which thwarts the hardlink-to-symlink attack.

2008/08/10	Package: bind

Updated to 9.3.5-P2, added an OpenBSD-derived patch to implement support for more than 1024 simultaneous recursive queries.

2006/09/13 -
2008/07/10	Package: john

Many updates to John the Ripper have been made, bringing it to version 1.7.3. Most notably, two Blowfish-based crypt(3) hashes may now be computed in parallel for much better performance on x86-64 CPUs. Also, "DumbForce" and "KnownForce" external mode samples have been added to the default john.conf.

2008/07/08	Package: bind
SECURITY FIX	Severity: medium, remote, active

Updated to 9.3.5-P1, which additionally randomizes UDP query ports to improve resilience to DNS cache poisoning attacks. References:
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1447

2008/06/29	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.0.6.

2008/05/27	Package: openssh

Implemented support for RSA/DSA key blacklisting in sshd based on partial fingerprints, added a subpackage with blacklisted 48-bit partial fingerprints for 1024-bit and 2048-bit RSA and 1024-bit DSA keys as generated on vulnerable Debian, Ubuntu, and derived systems for PID range 1 to 32767. Due to the encoding scheme used, the blacklist file size is just 1.3 MB, which corresponds to less than 4.5 bytes per fingerprint. This effort was supported by CivicActions. References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/27/3
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-612-1/
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0166

2008/05/18	Package: nmap

Updated to 4.62.

2008/05/10	Package: cvs

Updated to 1.11.23.

2008/04/17 -
2008/04/22	Package: lilo

Updated to 22.8.

2008/03/26	Package: gnupg

Updated to 1.4.9.

2008/03/20	Package: findutils

Updated to 4.2.33.

2008/03/20	Package: bzip2

Updated to 1.0.5. This release fixes a potential buffer over-read bug, which allowed user-assisted remote attackers to cause a crash in libbz2 via a crafted file. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1372

2008/02/13	Package: pcre

Updated to 7.6.

2008/02/12	Packages: pam_passwdqc, pam

Applied numerous minor changes to pam_passwdqc and its default settings, including replacing its set of separator characters (used for randomly generated "passphrases") with some of those defined by RFC 3986 as being safe within "userinfo" part of URLs without encoding, reducing the default minimum length for passphrases from 12 to 11, and corrections to the documentation.

2008/01/15	Package: tar

Added a new option: --ignore-device-id, to be used when creating incremental dumps off filesystems with volatile device numbers, such as OpenVZ simfs.

2008/01/04	Package: hdparm

Updated to 7.7.

2008/01/01	Package: gnupg

Updated to 1.4.8.

2008/01/01	Package: e2fsprogs

Updated to 1.40.4.

2007/12/16	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.4.6.

2007/12/06	Package: e2fsprogs

Applied upstream patch to fix integer overflows in libext2fs. This addresses a potential vulnerability where an untrusted filesystem can be corrupted on purpose in such a way that a program using libext2fs will allocate a buffer that is far too small. This can lead to either a crash or potentially a heap-based buffer overflow. Thanks to Rafal Wojtczuk of McAfee Avert Labs for reporting this issue. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5497

2007/12/05	Package: gettext

Updated to 0.14.6.

2007/11/19	Package: findutils

Updated to 4.2.31.

2007/11/18	Package: ltrace

Updated to 0.5.

2007/11/18	Package: elfutils-libelf

Updated to 0.131.

2007/11/15	Package: e2fsprogs

Updated to 1.40.2.

2007/10/24 -
2007/11/05	Package: sysklogd

Implemented logging of the sending user ID (when non-zero) and of the sending process ID (when different from the reported one) for syslog messages arriving via Unix domain sockets. This should allow for detection of spoofed messages.

2007/10/17	Package: diffstat

Updated to 1.45.

2007/10/16	Package: dhcp

Updated to 3.0.6.

2007/10/13	Package: openssl

Backported upstream fix for off-by-one bug in the SSL_get_shared_ciphers function. It is unclear whether the bug had any security impact. References:
http://lists.openwall.net/bugtraq/2007/09/27/14
http://lists.openwall.net/bugtraq/2007/10/01/7
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20071012.txt
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5135

2007/10/08	Package: cvs

Updated to 1.11.22.

2007/10/07	Package: bzip2

Updated to 1.0.4.

2007/10/07	Package: nmap

Updated to 4.20.

2007/10/07	Packages: mdadm, raidtools;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

Replaced raidtools with mdadm.

2007/09/24	Package: pcre

Updated to 7.4.

2007/08/30	Package: vim
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to high, indirect, passive

Backported upstream fix to restrict dangerous functions in modelines. Note that vim's modelines have always been disabled on Owl by default (with a setting in /usr/share/vim/vimrc) and even this fix is no guarantee modelines will be safe to use or the restricted mode safe to rely upon in the future. Backported upstream fix for format string vulnerability in the helptags_one function, which allowed user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a help-tags tag in a help file. References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2438
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2953

2007/08/18	kernel

Updated to Linux 2.4.35-ow2. The single known security-relevant change added with Linux 2.4.35 is correction of the randomness pool update bug discovered by the PaX Team. The -ow2 revision adds a fix for the parent process death signal bug in the Linux kernel discovered by Wojciech Purczynski of COSEINC PTE Ltd. and iSEC Security Research; this bug has no security impact on Owl with no added SUID programs. Also added are two security hardening features, both enabled by default: restricted access to VM86 mode (specific to 32-bit x86) and restricted zero page mappings (generic). References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2007/08/08/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/announce/2007/08/14/1
https://isec.pl/en/vulnerabilities/isec-0024-death-signal.txt
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3848

2007/08/18	Package: cpio

Updated to 2.9.

2007/08/17	Package: tar

Updated to 1.18.

2007/07/30	Package: bind
SECURITY FIX	Severity: medium, remote, passive

Updated to 9.3.4-P1, which fixes a weakness in DNS query ids generator when answering resolver questions or sending NOTIFY messages to slave name servers. The weakness used to make it easier for remote attackers to guess the next query id and perform DNS cache poisoning. References:
http://www.trusteer.com/bind9dns
https://marc.info/?l=bind-announce&m=118531674631565
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2926

2007/06/01	Package: owl-cdrom

In the default kernel for x86, enabled more IDE chipset drivers, common RAID and SATA controller drivers, USB and HID support (keyboard, mouse, storage devices), and more. This enables our CDs to boot off SATA and USB CD-ROM drives, in addition to IDE and SCSI ones that were supported previously.

2007/05/31	Package: mutt

Updated to 1.4.2.3. This release fixes msgid validation in APOP authentication and potential buffer overflow in passwd GECOS field parser. References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1558
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2683

2007/03/25 -
2007/05/22	Package: file
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Fixed potential heap buffer overflow in the file_printf function of the libmagic library. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1536

2007/03/29	Package: lftp

Updated to 3.5.10.

2007/03/27	Package: elinks

Updated to 0.11.2.

2007/03/26	Package: lftp

Updated to 3.5.9.

2007/03/06	Package: gnupg
SECURITY FIX	Severity: medium, indirect, passive

Updated to 1.4.7. This includes a fix for an unsigned data injection vulnerability: An attacker is able to add arbitrary content to a signed message, and the receiver of the message may not be able to distinguish the forged and the properly signed parts of the message. References:
https://www.coresecurity.com/content/gnupg-and-gnupg-clients-unsigned-data-injection-vulnerability
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1263

2007/02/25	Package: openssl

Updated to 0.9.7m.

2007/01/29	Package: bind
SECURITY FIX	Severity: low, remote, active

Updated to 9.3.4, which fixes two security issues. The first issue is a "use after free" vulnerability which allowed remote DoS attack via unspecified vectors that cause BIND to "dereference (read) a freed fetch context". The second issue allowed remote DoS attack via a type ANY DNS query response that contains multiple RR sets in the answer section, which triggers an assertion error if DNSSEC validation is enabled. References:
https://marc.info/?l=bind-announce&m=116968519321296
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0493
https://marc.info/?l=bind-announce&m=116968519300764
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0494

2007/01/18	Package: strace

Updated to 4.5.15.

2007/01/13	Package: pcre

Updated to 7.0.

2007/01/03 -
2007/01/09	Package: owl-setup

Configuration of console font and locales has been implemented under a new sub-menu. Keyboard layout configuration has been moved to the same menu. The ncurses/CDK-based user interface now uses cfdisk rather than the traditional fdisk by default.

2006/12/30 -
2007/01/09	Owl/build/*

New make targets have been added for creating ISO-9660 images of Owl bootable CDs. The added targets are buildkernel, installisotree, iso, and iso.gz.

2007/01/05	Package: mkisofs;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

New package: create ISO-9660 filesystem images.

2006/12/27	kernel

Updated to Linux 2.4.34-ow1.

2006/12/06	Package: gnupg
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Updated to 1.4.6. This includes a fix for a remotely controllable function pointer vulnerability: using malformed OpenPGP packets an attacker was able to modify and dereference a function pointer in gpg. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6235

2006/11/28	Package: gnupg
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Applied upstream fix for heap buffer overflow bug in gpg when running gpg interactively. References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6169
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000241.html

2006/11/28	Package: tar
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Disabled GNUTYPE_NAMES handling by default to avoid directory traversal in GNU tar (where a malicious archive containing GNUTYPE_NAMES record with a symbolic link could specify files to be extracted to outside of the intended directory tree). References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6097
http://lists.openwall.net/full-disclosure/2006/11/21/20

2006/11/19	Package: rpm

Backported upstream fix for potential heap buffer overflow in showQueryPackage function. Although this particular bug is fixed, it remains unsafe to invoke "rpm" queries on untrusted package files. References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=212833
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5466

2006/11/09	Package: openssh

Backported upstream fix for a bug in the sshd privilege separation monitor that weakened its verification of successful authentication. References:
http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2006-November/024882.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5794

2006/11/07	Package: texinfo
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Applied upstream patch that fixes potential heap buffer overflow in texindex utility. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4810

2006/10/29	Package: screen
SECURITY FIX	Severity: low, remote, passive

Applied upstream patch that fixes two bugs in UTF-8 combining characters handling. The bugs could be used to crash/hang screen by writing a special string to a window. References:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2006-10/msg00028.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4573

2006/10/03	Package: openssh
SECURITY FIX	Severity: low/none to high, remote/local, active

Backported upstream fixes for sshd connection consumption vulnerability (severity: low, remote, active), scp local arbitrary command execution vulnerability (severity: none to high, local, active), CRC compensation attack detector DoS (severity: low, remote, active), client NULL dereference on protocol error (severity: low, remote, passive). References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2069
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0225
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4924
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4925

2006/09/29	Package: openssl
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to low/high, remote, active/passive

Updated to 0.9.7l, which includes fixes for four security issues. References:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20060928.txt
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2937
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2940
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3738
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4343

2006/09/27	Package: dhcp

Updated to 3.0.4.

2006/09/19	Package: gzip
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Fixed multiple vulnerabilities (stack buffer overflow, heap buffer underflow, heap buffer overflow, infinite loop) discovered by Tavis Ormandy of Google Security Team. References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4335
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4336
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4337
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4338

2006/09/19	Package: bison

Updated to 2.3.

2006/09/07	Package: gpm

Updated to 1.20.1.

2006/09/06	Package: openssl
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to medium, remote, passive to active

Applied upstream patch to avoid RSA signature forgery. References:
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20060905.txt
http://www.imc.org/ietf-openpgp/mail-archive/msg06063.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4339

2006/09/06	Package: bind
SECURITY FIX	Severity: none to low, remote, active

Updated to 9.3.2-P1, which fixes a couple of bugs that allowed for DoS attacks on certain BIND configurations. References:
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/915404
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4095
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/697164
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4096

2006/08/17	kernel

Updated to Linux 2.4.33-ow1.

2006/08/04	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.2.11.

2006/08/04	Package: gnupg
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, remote, passive

Updated to 1.4.5. This includes fixes for two more possible memory allocation bugs, similar to the problem fixed in 1.4.3-owl1. References:
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q3/000229.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3746

2006/06/28	Package: gnupg

Updated to 1.4.4.

2006/06/27	Package: mutt
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, remote, passive

Applied an upstream fix for potential stack-based buffer overflow when processing an overly long namespace from IMAP server. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3242

2006/06/25	Package: nmap

Updated to 4.11.

2006/06/25	Package: coreutils

Updated to 5.97.

2006/06/22	Package: gnupg
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, remote, passive

Updated to 1.4.3. Applied a fix for integer overflow vulnerability in packet processing that could allow a remote attacker to cause gpg to crash and possibly overwrite memory via a message packet with a large length. Reference:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3082

2006/06/12	Package: hdparm

Updated to 6.6.

2006/06/12	Package: smartmontools;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

New package: control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.

2006/06/06	Package: patchutils

Updated to 0.2.31.

2006/06/06	Package: automake

Updated to 1.9.6.

2006/06/06	Package: which

Updated to 2.16.

2006/06/06	Package: e2fsprogs

Updated to 1.39.

2006/06/06	Package: pam

Updated to 0.99.4.0+.

2006/06/06	Package: make

Updated to 3.81.

2006/06/06	Package: libtool

Updated to 1.5.22.

2006/06/06	Package: bison

Updated to 2.1.

2006/06/06	Package: bind

Updated to 9.3.2.

2006/06/06	Package: vsftpd

Updated to 2.0.4.

2006/06/06	Package: chkconfig

Updated to 1.3.29.

2006/06/06	Package: bash

Updated to 3.1 patchlevel 17.

2006/05/27	Package: coreutils

Updated to 5.96.

2006/05/21	Package: coreutils

Updated to 5.95.

2006/05/21	Packages: bc, gnupg, gdb, lftp, readline;
		Owl/build/installorder.conf

Updated readline to 5.1 patchlevel 4.

2006/05/19	Package: acct

Updated to 6.4-pre1.

2006/05/08 -
2006/05/15	Package: john

Bitslice DES code for x86 with SSE2 and x86-64 with 64-bit mode extended SSE2 has been added for better performance at DES-based crypt(3) hashes on Pentium 4 and SSE2-capable AMD processors. Assorted high-level changes have been applied to improve performance on current x86-64 processors.

2006/05/07	Package: perl

Updated to 5.8.8.

2006/05/01	Package: vixie-cron

Updated to OpenBSD CVS snapshot dated 2006/04/26. Changed crontab(1) to use $TMPDIR for creating the temporary file.

2006/05/01	Package: lftp

Updated to 3.4.6.

2006/04/26	Package: nmap

Updated to 4.03.

2006/03/25 -
2006/04/20	Package: owl-setup

Many fixes and enhancements which had been postponed for after Owl 2.0 release have now been implemented. This includes directly talking to PAM when setting the initial root password, quick searches in scroll lists with the ncurses/CDK-based interface, progress indicators with both user interfaces (currently, this is used for installation of kernel headers), and manual pages for both "settle" and "setup".

2006/04/19	Package: lftp

Updated to 3.4.4.

2006/04/19	Package: setarch

Updated to 2.0.

2006/04/04 -
2006/04/07	Packages: *;
		Owl/build/{.rpmmacros,.rpmrc,buildworld.conf,buildworld.sh}

Ported Owl to the x86-64 architecture.

2006/04/06	Packages: db4, pam, perl, postfix;
		Owl/build/installworld.sh

Updated db4 to 4.3.29.

2006/04/06	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.2.10.

2006/04/06	Package: gettext

Updated to 0.14.5.

2006/04/04	Package: bash

Updated to 3.1 patchlevel 16.

2006/03/23	Package: netlist

Updated to 2.1.

2006/03/23	Package: setarch

Updated to 1.9.

2006/03/11	Package: postfix

Updated to 2.2.9.

2006/03/11	Package: gnupg
SECURITY FIX	Severity: medium, indirect, passive

Updated to 1.4.2.2. This includes fixes for the signature verification vulnerabilities discovered by Tavis Ormandy of Gentoo. References:
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000211.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0455
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000216.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0049

2006/03/05	Package: nmap

Updated to 4.02 Alpha1.

2006/02/27 -
2006/03/05	Package: john

Applied many minor corrections, including for better handling of certain uncommon scenarios and improper uses of John. Added a "keyboard cracker" to the default john.conf that will try sequences of adjacent keys on a keyboard as passwords.

2006/02/28	Package: iptables

Updated to 1.3.5.

2006/02/20	Package: sed

Updated to 4.1.5.

2006/02/20	Package: coreutils

Updated to 5.94.

2006/02/20	Package: bash

Updated to 3.1 patchlevel 8.

2006/02/20	Package: tar
SECURITY FIX	Severity: high, indirect, passive

Backported upstream fix for potential heap buffer overrun in handling extended headers. References:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2005-06/msg00029.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0300

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