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MFR4_11: SA-04:16.fetch (+MFC), SA-04:17.procfs (+MFC).

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New release notes:  EN-05:01.nfs (+MFC), EN-05:02.sk (+MFC),
EN-05:03.ipi (+MFC).

To be consistent with other documentation, the release documentation
will henceforth include the one-word keyword (e.g. "fetch", "procfs"
above) in the names of advisories and errata.
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Bruce A. Mah 2005-02-21 20:53:57 +00:00
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<sect2 id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para></para>
<para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows
a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's
memory to be overwritten, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5;
which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local
denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user
could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kernel">
@ -131,6 +145,12 @@
<varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>, which currently defaults to
<literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para>
<para arch="i386">A bug in Inter-Processor Interrupt (IPI)
handling, which could cause SMP systems to crash under heavy
load, has been fixed. More details are contained in errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
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<sect3 id="boot">
@ -208,6 +228,14 @@
<para>The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling
and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>Several programming errors in the &man.sk.4; driver have
been corrected. This bug was particular to SMP systems, and
could cause panics, page faults, aborted SSH connections, or
corrupted file transfers. More details can be found in
errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.sk.4; driver now has support for &man.altq.4;.
This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based
interfaces. &merged;</para>
@ -303,6 +331,12 @@
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More
details can be found in errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>

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<sect2 id="security">
<title>Security Advisories</title>
<para></para>
<para>A bug in the &man.fetch.1; utility which allows
a malicious HTTP server to cause arbitrary portions of the client's
memory to be overwritten, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:16.fetch</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>A bug in &man.procfs.5; and &man.linprocfs.5;
which could cause a malicious local user could perform a local
denial of service attack by causing a system panic, or the user
could read parts of kernel memory, has been fixed.
For more information, see security advisory
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs.asc">FreeBSD-SA-04:17.procfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kernel">
@ -131,6 +145,12 @@
<varname>debug.mpsafevfs</varname>, which currently defaults to
<literal>0</literal> (disabled).</para>
<para arch="i386">A bug in Inter-Processor Interrupt (IPI)
handling, which could cause SMP systems to crash under heavy
load, has been fixed. More details are contained in errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
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<sect3 id="boot">
@ -208,6 +228,14 @@
<para>The &man.sf.4; driver now has support for device polling
and &man.altq.4;. &merged;</para>
<para>Several programming errors in the &man.sk.4; driver have
been corrected. This bug was particular to SMP systems, and
could cause panics, page faults, aborted SSH connections, or
corrupted file transfers. More details can be found in
errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:02.sk</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
<para>The &man.sk.4; driver now has support for &man.altq.4;.
This driver also now supports jumbo frames on Yukon-based
interfaces. &merged;</para>
@ -303,6 +331,12 @@
<para>The autofs(9) file system and the userland library
&man.libautofs.3; have been added.</para>
<para>A kernel panic in the NFS server has been fixed. More
details can be found in errata note
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc">FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs</ulink>.
&merged;</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>