Announcing NetBSD 5.0.1
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce that version 5.0.1 of the NetBSD operating system is now available. NetBSD 5.0.1 is the first security/critical update of the NetBSD 5.0 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed critical in nature for security or stability reasons.
Please note that all fixes in security/critical updates (i.e., NetBSD 5.0.1, 5.0.2, etc.) are cumulative, so the latest update contains all such fixes since the corresponding minor release. These fixes will also appear in future minor releases (i.e., NetBSD 5.1, 5.2, etc.), together with other less-critical fixes and feature enhancements.
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 5.0.1 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at http://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/. We encourage users who wish to install via ISO images to download via BitTorrent by using the torrent files supplied in the ISO image area. A list of hashes for the NetBSD 5.0.1 distribution has been signed with the well-connected PGP key for the NetBSD Security Officer: ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/hashes/NetBSD-5.0.1_hashes.asc
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Your donation to the NetBSD Foundation allows the project to make major improvements to the code base. We would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that we are in the middle of a fund drive with a target of 60,000 USD by the end of the year. We would like to continue funded development in various areas, including:
- Improving network stack concurrency and performance.
- Development of modern file systems and improvement of existing ones.
- Features which are useful in embedded environments, for example, high resolution timers and execute in place (XIP) support.
- Automatic testing and quality assurance.
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES-5.0.1 file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 5.0.1 release tree. An abbreviated list is as follows:
- NetBSD-SA2009-004, NetBSD OpenPAM passwd(1) changing weakness.
- NetBSD-SA2009-005, Plaintext Recovery Attack Against SSH.
- NetBSD-SA2009-006, Buffer overflows in ntp.
- NetBSD-SA2009-007, Buffer overflows in hack(6).
- NetBSD-SA2009-008, OpenSSL ASN1 parsing denial of service and CMS signature verification weakness.
- NetBSD-SA2009-009, OpenSSL DTLS Memory Exhaustion and DSA signature verification vulnerabilities.
- NetBSD-SA2009-010, ISC dhclient subnet-mask flag stack overflow.
- NetBSD-SA2009-011, ISC DHCP server Denial of Service vulnerability.
- NetBSD-SA2009-012, SHA2 implementation potential buffer overflow.
- NetBSD-SA2009-013, BIND named dynamic update Denial of Service vulnerability.
Note: Advisories prior to NetBSD-SA2009-004 do not affect NetBSD 5.0.
- Fix random "filesystem full" messages on large FFS file systems.
- Fix a regression in the 4.4BSD scheduler, improving interactive performance under load.
- Remove a race where physio_done() may use memory already freed. Fixes PR kern/39536.
- Fix a crash observed when trying to load a corrupted ELF kernel module.
- Fix PR kern/41566, where writes on the controlling tty were not being awoken from blocks.
- Various fixes for POSIX message queues.
- Fix a possible deadlock in the VFS subsystem.
- Fixes for POSIX advisory locks.
- A number of other stability fixes.
- Follow exactly the recommendation of draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure-11.txt: Don't check against the last ack received, but the expected sequence number. This makes RST handling independent of delayed ACK.
- Fix a panic when trying to disable IPFilter before enabling it. Fixes PR kern/41364.
- ehci(4): Add a workaround for ATI SB600 and SB700 revisions A12 and A13 to avoid a USB subsystem hang when the system has multiple USB devices connected to it or one device is re-connected often.
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wm(4):
- On i82563, FreeBSD's em driver says that the ready bit in the MDIC register may be incorrectly set. Insert delay(200) like the em driver. Fixes PR kern/41014.
- Add workaround for 82543GC. We need to force speed and duplex on the MAC equal to what the PHY speed and duplex configuration is. Fixes PR kern/36430.
- Fix many problems and panic on TBI's cards (PR kern/32009).
- x86 (amd64 and i386): Add a workaround for a bug with some Opteron revisions where locked operations sometimes do not serve as memory barriers, allowing memory references to bleed outside of critical sections.
- amd64: Handle protection faults properly, returning SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS.
- hp300: Make install.md probe cd(4) devices properly.
- pmax: Make ksyms(4) actually work.
- sh3: Fix logic error in copyinstr() when deciding whether to return EFAULT or ENAMETOOLONG.
- sparc64:
- Fix long double support in 32bit libc. Fixes PR port-sparc64/41406.
- When preparing the initial trap frame for a new forked lwp, explicitly clear condition code. Otherwise we might catch a signal before we ever return to userland. Fixes PR port-sparc64/41302.
- vax: binutils: Allocate relocation section using bfd_zalloc() to ensure no garbage relocations when not all the entries are used. Fixes PR port-vax/39182.
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Update pkg_install to 20090724.
Note
pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict detection. It is recommended to rebuild the cache with "pkg_admin rebuild". audit-packages.conf(5) has been superseded by pkg_install.conf(5). The default configuration is the same. Support for pkg_view(1) has been retired. The functionality of audit-packages(1) and download-vulnerability-list(1) has moved into pkg_admin(1). Wrapper scripts that handle the common use cases are provided. - Update libfetch to 2.23.
- racoonctl(8): Adjust ADMINPORTDIR to match that of racoon (/var/run). Fixes PR bin/41376.
- schedctl(8): Skip LSIDL and LSZOMB threads when retrieving info.
- postinstall(8) now knows about /etc/dhcpcd.conf.
- The X.Org s3 driver now works.
- Install the Xvidtune app-defaults file.
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Fixes to Linux compat:
- In sendmsg(2), do copy the msghdr structure before trying to use it.
- In linux_sys_sched_getaffinity(), do not leak memory on error.
- Various METALOG fixes, including sorting entries. Addresses PR toolchain/24457 and PR bin/41155.
Using block device nodes directly for I/O may cause a kernel crash when the file system containing /dev is FFS and is mounted with -o log. Workaround: use raw disk devices, or remount the file system without -o log.
Occasionally, gdb may cause a process that is being debugged to hang when "single stepped". Workaround: kill and restart the affected process.
gdb cannot debug running threaded programs correctly. Workaround: generate a core file from the program using gcore(1) and pass the core to gdb, instead of debugging the running program.
Statically linked binaries using pthreads are currently broken.
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The NetBSD 5.0.1 release provides supported binary distributions for the following systems:
| NetBSD/acorn26 | Acorn Archimedes, A-series and R-series systems |
| NetBSD/acorn32 | Acorn RiscPC/A7000, VLSI RC7500 |
| NetBSD/algor | Algorithmics, Ltd. MIPS evaluation boards |
| NetBSD/alpha | Digital/Compaq Alpha (64-bit) |
| NetBSD/amd64 | AMD family processors like Opteron, Athlon64, and Intel CPUs with EM64T extension |
| NetBSD/amiga | Commodore Amiga and MacroSystem DraCo |
| NetBSD/arc | MIPS-based machines following the Advanced RISC Computing spec |
| NetBSD/atari | Atari TT030, Falcon, Hades |
| NetBSD/bebox | Be Inc's BeBox |
| NetBSD/cats | Chalice Technology's CATS and Intel's EBSA-285 evaluation boards |
| NetBSD/cesfic | CES FIC8234 VME processor board |
| NetBSD/cobalt | Cobalt Networks' MIPS-based Microservers |
| NetBSD/dreamcast | Sega Dreamcast game console |
| NetBSD/evbarm | Various ARM-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/evbmips | Various MIPS-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/evbppc | Various PowerPC-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/evbsh3 | Various Hitachi Super-H SH3 and SH4-based evaluation boards and appliances |
| NetBSD/ews4800mips | NEC's MIPS-based EWS4800 workstation |
| NetBSD/hp300 | Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 and 400 series |
| NetBSD/hppa | Hewlett-Packard 9000 Series 700 workstations |
| NetBSD/hpcarm | StrongARM based Windows CE PDA machines |
| NetBSD/hpcmips | MIPS-based Windows CE PDA machines |
| NetBSD/hpcsh | Hitachi Super-H based Windows CE PDA machines |
| NetBSD/i386 | IBM PCs and PC clones with i486-family processors and up |
| NetBSD/ibmnws | IBM Network Station 1000 |
| NetBSD/iyonix | Castle Technology's Iyonix ARM based PCs |
| NetBSD/landisk | SH4 processor based NAS appliances |
| NetBSD/luna68k | OMRON Tateisi Electric's LUNA series |
| NetBSD/mac68k | Apple Macintosh with Motorola 68k CPU |
| NetBSD/macppc | Apple PowerPC-based Macintosh and clones |
| NetBSD/mipsco | MIPS Computer Systems Inc. family of workstations and servers |
| NetBSD/mmeye | Brains mmEye multimedia server |
| NetBSD/mvme68k | Motorola MVME 68k Single Board Computers |
| NetBSD/mvmeppc | Motorola PowerPC VME Single Board Computers |
| NetBSD/netwinder | StrongARM based NetWinder machines |
| NetBSD/news68k | Sony's 68k-based “NET WORK STATION” series |
| NetBSD/newsmips | Sony's MIPS-based “NET WORK STATION” series |
| NetBSD/next68k | NeXT 68k “black” hardware |
| NetBSD/ofppc | OpenFirmware PowerPC machines |
| NetBSD/pmax | Digital MIPS-based DECstations and DECsystems |
| NetBSD/prep | PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP machines |
| NetBSD/sandpoint | Motorola Sandpoint reference platform |
| NetBSD/sbmips | Broadcom SiByte evaluation boards |
| NetBSD/sgimips | Silicon Graphics' MIPS-based workstations |
| NetBSD/shark | Digital DNARD (“shark”) |
| NetBSD/sparc | Sun SPARC (32-bit) and UltraSPARC (in 32-bit mode) |
| NetBSD/sparc64 | Sun UltraSPARC (in native 64-bit mode) |
| NetBSD/sun2 | Sun Microsystems Sun 2 machines with Motorola 68010 CPU |
| NetBSD/sun3 | Motorola 68020 and 030 based Sun 3 and 3x machines |
| NetBSD/vax | Digital VAX |
| NetBSD/x68k | Sharp X680x0 series |
| NetBSD/xen | The Xen virtual machine monitor |
| NetBSD/zaurus | Sharp ARM PDAs |
Ports available in source form only for this release include the following:
| NetBSD/amigappc | PowerPC-based Amiga boards |
| NetBSD/ia64 | Itanium family of processors |
| NetBSD/playstation2 | SONY PlayStation2 |
| NetBSD/rs6000 | IBM RS/6000 MCA-based PowerPC machines. |
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