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&os; &release.bugfix; Errata The &os; Project $FreeBSD$ 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 The &os; Documentation Project &tm-attrib.freebsd; &tm-attrib.intel; &tm-attrib.sparc; &tm-attrib.general; This document lists errata items for &os; &release.bugfix;, 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 &os;. This errata document for &os; &release.bugfix; will be maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;. Introduction This errata document contains late-breaking news about &os; &release.bugfix;. 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. 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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the current errata for this release.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 , plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location. Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot). For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see or . Late-Breaking News and Corrections [20080204] The ISO images of &os; &release.bugfix; are sized for 700MB CD-ROM media (ISO images of all prior versions assumed 650MB media). This fact should have been mentioned in the release notes. [20080204] Contrary to the release notes, ipfwpcap(8) is not a feature included in &os; &release.bugfix;. It was merged to the &release.branch; codeline after the release branch was created. This utility will be included in subsequent snapshots of &release.branch; and in &release.next;. [20080229] The release notes gave an incorrect version number for KDE. The correct version number is 3.5.8. Security Advisories The following security advisories pertain to &os; &release.bugfix;. For more information, consult the individual advisories available from . Advisory Date Topic SA-08:03.sendfile 14 February 2008 &man.sendfile.2; write-only file permission bypass SA-08:05.openssh 17 April 2008 OpenSSH X11-forwarding privilege escalation Known Problems and Solutions [20080229] A bug in Linux emulation may cause segmentation faults for some Linux programs using &man.mmap.2;. This issue has been fixed on the HEAD and RELENG_6 branches. - [20080229] Multithreaded programs that perform a + [20080229, updated 20080420] Multithreaded programs that perform a &man.fork.2; operation may crash due to a race condition in the - threading library. This problem has been fixed on the HEAD and - RELENG_6 branches, and is a candidate for an errata - notice. + threading library. This problem has been fixed on the HEAD, + RELENG_6, and RELENG_6_3 branches, and is addressed by errata + notice + FreeBSD-EN-08:01.libpthread. + [20080307] When using &man.sysinstall.8; to install the X.org packages, selecting only specific components to be installed may result in the x11/xorg-drivers package not being installed, and a corresponding failure of X.org server to configure itself correctly. The recommended way to a functioning X.org installation is simply to select All from the Distributions menu. + + [20080420] A reference counting bug in the IP multicast code + could cause kernel panics under some circumstances. It has been + fixed on the RELENG_6 branch by + revision 1.85.2.10 + of sys/netinet/in.c.