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This is expected to +change soon.</p> + +<p>Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or +registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and +other countries.</p> + +<p>Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their +products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and +the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed +by the ``™'' or the ``®'' symbol.</p> +</div> + +<hr /> +</div> + +<blockquote class="ABSTRACT"> +<div class="ABSTRACT"><a id="AEN19" name="AEN19"></a> +<p>This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 4.10-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.</p> + +<p>This errata document for FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of +FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE.</p> +</div> +</blockquote> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="AEN22" name="AEN22">1 Introduction</a></h2> + +<p>This errata document contains ``late-breaking news'' about FreeBSD 4.10-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.</p> + +<p>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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for +example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are +kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the ``current errata'' for this +release.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 <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/" +target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/</a>, plus any sites which keep up-to-date +mirrors of this location.</p> + +<p>Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 4-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this +document (as of the time of the snapshot).</p> + +<p>For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/" +target="_top">http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/</a> or <a +href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/" +target="_top">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/</a>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="AEN33" name="AEN33">2 Security Advisories</a></h2> + +<p>No active security advisories.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="AEN36" name="AEN36">3 Late-Breaking News</a></h2> + +<p>(20 May 2004) A security problem was discovered in <b class="APPLICATION">CVS</b> but +the release notes did not state that since it was very late in the release cycle. FreeBSD +4.10-RELEASE includes a fix for it and is not vulnerable. For the details, see the +security advisory <a +href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-04:10.cvs.asc" +target="_top">FreeBSD-SA-04:10</a>.</p> + +<p>(23 May 2004) As a side effect of closing a security problem related to <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=msync&sektion=2&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">msync</span>(2)</span></a>, the +<var class="LITERAL">MS_INVALIDATE</var> flag no longer guarantees that all pages in the +range are invalidated. This can cause problems when pages are backed by a remote file +(e.g. via NFS) where other machines can write to the permanent storage since the local +pages not being invalidated might then contain stale data. The security problem being +addressed is a strictly local exploit, and only allows a local user to block the writing +of data to a file under certain circumstances. Users who require the old semantics of +<var class="LITERAL">MS_INVALIDATE</var> and are not concerned with the security issue +being fixed can set the <var class="LITERAL">vm.old_msync</var> sysctl to <var +class="LITERAL">1</var> which will revert to the old (insecure) behavior.</p> + +<p>(25 May 2004) The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=twe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">twe</span>(4)</span></a> driver +was recently updated by the vendor. Problems have been reported in rare circumstances +under conditions that are hard to reproduce. Work is ongoing to isolate these problems +and determine their source.</p> + +<p>(27 May 2004) The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bfe&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-RELEASE"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">bfe</span>(4)</span></a> driver +for Broadcom BCM4401 based Fast Ethernet adapters has been added but the release notes +did not mention that.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents, can be +downloaded from <a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</small></p> + +<p align="center"><small>For questions about FreeBSD, read the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html">documentation</a> before contacting <<a +href="mailto:questions@FreeBSD.org">questions@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p> + +<p align="center"><small>For questions about this documentation, e-mail <<a +href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>>.</small></p> + +<br /> +<br /> +</body> +</html> + |