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This file lists the major changes made between the last released
version of Owl and Owl-current. 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.
Changes made between Owl 2.0 and Owl-current.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
2006/11/07 Package: texinfo SECURITY FIX Severity: high, indirect, passive
Applied upstream patch that fixes potential heap buffer overflow in
texindex utility.
Reference:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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, local, passive
Backported upstream fix for potential heap buffer overrun in handling
extended headers.
References:
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