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Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based +upon architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.</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="AEN23" name="AEN23"></a> +<p>This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 6.2-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 6.2-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of +FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE.</p> +</div> +</blockquote> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="INTRO" name="INTRO">1 Introduction</a></h2> + +<p>This errata document contains “late-breaking news” about FreeBSD +6.2-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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for +example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are +kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the “current errata” +for this release.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 6-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://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</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="LATE-NEWS" name="LATE-NEWS">2 Late-Breaking News and +Corrections</a></h2> + +<p>[20070116] The release notes should have mentioned that a separate ISO image has been +created with readable documentation files. It contains renderings of the documention for +all supported languages; the last several FreeBSD releases only contained English +documents due to space limitations.</p> + +<p>[20070116] Some versions of the release announcement contained an incorrect manual +page reference for the GELI disk encryption subsystem. The correct manual page is <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">geli</span>(8)</span></a>.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="SECURITY" name="SECURITY">3 Security Advisories</a></h2> + +<p>The following security advisories pertain to FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. For more +information, consult the individual advisories available from <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/" target="_top">http://security.FreeBSD.org/</a>.</p> + +<div class="INFORMALTABLE"><a id="AEN48" name="AEN48"></a> +<table border="0" frame="void" class="CALSTABLE"> +<col width="1*" /> +<col width="1*" /> +<col width="3*" /> +<thead> +<tr> +<th>Advisory</th> +<th>Date</th> +<th>Topic</th> +</tr> +</thead> + +<tbody> +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:02.bind.asc" +target="_top">SA-07:02.bind</a></td> +<td>9 February 2007</td> +<td> +<p>Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">named</span>(8)</span></a></p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6.asc" +target="_top">SA-07:03.ipv6</a></td> +<td>26 April 2007</td> +<td> +<p>IPv6 Routing Header 0 is dangerous</p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:05.libarchive.asc" +target="_top">SA-07:05.libarchive</a></td> +<td>12 July 2007</td> +<td> +<p>Errors handling corrupt tar files in <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libarchive&sektion=3&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span +class="REFENTRYTITLE">libarchive</span>(3)</span></a></p> +</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td><a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:09.random.asc" +target="_top">SA-07:09.random</a></td> +<td>29 November 2007</td> +<td> +<p>Random value disclosure</p> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<hr /> +<h2 class="SECT1"><a id="KNOWN-PROBLEMS" name="KNOWN-PROBLEMS">4 Known Problems and +Solutions</a></h2> + +<p>[20070116] As mentioned in the release notes, the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arcmsr&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">arcmsr</span>(4)</span></a> driver +was updated for FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. Some isolated crash problems were noted after this +update, although the driver in general tends to work quite well for many testers, and it +seems to be “better” in general in terms of functionality and supported +hardware. Users having problems may wish to consider backing out the driver update or +installing a version of this driver <a +href="ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/FreeBSD/DRIVER/SourceCode/" +target="_top">directly from Areca</a>. Further investigation is continuing into these +issues.</p> + +<p>[20070116] FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE has been diagnosed with kernel bug related to +UNIX-domain sockets. A <a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/unp_gc.patch" +target="_top">patch</a> for this problem has been committed to HEAD and RELENG_6, and is +a candidate for an errata patch to RELENG_6_2 after further testing.</p> + +<p>[20070116, update 20070212] Systems with very heavy network activity have been +observed to have some problems with the kernel memory allocator. Symptoms are processes +that get stuck in zonelimit state, or system livelocks. One partial workaround for this +problem is to add the following line to <tt class="FILENAME">/boot/loader.conf</tt> and +reboot:</p> + +<pre class="SCREEN"> +kern.ipc.nmbclusters="0" +</pre> + +<p>Other workarounds have been discussed on the <tt class="LITERAL">freebsd-current@</tt> +and <tt class="LITERAL">freebsd-stable@</tt> mailing lists.</p> + +<p>A bugfix has been committed to HEAD and has been merged to RELENG_6.</p> + +<p>[20070123, updated 20070307 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE does not properly add a host route to +the destination of a <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gif</span>(4)</span></a> interface +configured as an IPv6 point-to-point interface. This makes it impossible to send traffic +across the tunnel. A workaround is to add the required route manually. If the <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gif&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"><span + class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">gif</span>(4)</span></a> interface was +configured as:</p> + +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> ifconfig gif0 <tt +class="REPLACEABLE"><i>ADDRESS</i></tt>/128 <tt +class="REPLACEABLE"><i>DESTINATION</i></tt> +</pre> + +<p>then the correct route can be added with this command:</p> + +<pre class="SCREEN"> +<samp class="PROMPT">#</samp> route add -host -inet6 <tt +class="REPLACEABLE"><i>DESTINATION</i></tt> -iface gif0 -llinfo -nostatic +</pre> + +<p>A fix for this problem has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_2. Further +details are given in FreeBSD Errata Notice <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:02.net.asc" +target="_top">EN-07:02.net</a>.</p> + +<p>[20070307] Under certain circumstances, a failed <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jail&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span class="REFENTRYTITLE">jail</span>(8)</span></a> startup +may cause some undesired changes to a host's network interface configuration, due to a +bug in the <tt class="FILENAME">rc.d/jail</tt> startup script. This problem has been +corrected on HEAD, RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_2, and is documented in FreeBSD Errata Notice +<a href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:03.rc.d_jail.asc" +target="_top">EN-07:03.rc.d_jail</a>.</p> + +<p>[20070318] The <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=freebsd-update&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable"> +<span class="CITEREFENTRY"><span +class="REFENTRYTITLE">freebsd-update</span>(8)</span></a> client included in FreeBSD +6.2-RELEASE does not properly update SMP kernels. This bug has been fixed on HEAD, +RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_2, as described in FreeBSD Errata Notice <a +href="http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:05.freebsd-update.asc" +target="_top">EN-07:05.freebsd-update</a>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr /> +<p align="center"><small>This file, and other release-related documents, can be +downloaded from <a +href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/">http://www.FreeBSD.org/snapshots/</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>All users of FreeBSD 6-STABLE should subscribe to the <<a +href="mailto:stable@FreeBSD.org">stable@FreeBSD.org</a>> mailing list.</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> +</body> +</html> + |