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48 <holder role="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">The FreeBSD Documentation Project</holder>
53 <para>This document lists errata items for &os;
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60 containing significant information discovered after the release
61 or too late in the release cycle to be otherwise included in the
62 release documentation.
63 This information includes security advisories, as well as news
64 relating to the software or documentation that could affect its
65 operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document
66 should always be consulted before installing this version of
69 <para>This errata document for &os;
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76 will be maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;.</para>
80 <title>Introduction</title>
82 <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking news</quote>
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90 Before installing this version, it is important to consult this
91 document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems
92 that may already have been found and fixed.</para>
94 <para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed
95 with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be
96 out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on
97 the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current
98 errata</quote> for this release. These other copies of the
99 errata are located at <ulink
100 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink>, plus any sites
101 which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para>
103 <para>Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also
104 contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of
105 the snapshot).</para>
107 <para>For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see <ulink
108 url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"></ulink> or <ulink
109 url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/"></ulink>.</para>
114 <title>Security Advisories</title>
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117 <para>No active security advisories.</para>
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122 <para>A buffer overflow in header parsing exists in older versions of
123 <application>sendmail</application>. It could allow a remote
124 attacker to create a specially-crafted message that may cause
125 &man.sendmail.8; to execute arbitrary code
126 with the privileges of the user running it, typically
127 <username>root</username>. More information, including pointers
128 to patches, can be found in security advisory <ulink
129 url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-03:07.sendmail.asc">FreeBSD-SA-03:07</ulink>.
130 This problem was corrected for &os; &release.prev;
131 with a vendor patch and was corrected for &os; &release.current;
132 with the import of a new version of
133 <application>sendmail</application>. However, these changes
134 may not otherwise have been noted in the release documentation.</para>
140 <title>Late-Breaking News</title>
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143 <para>No news.</para>
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148 <para>Due to some problems discovered very late in the release
149 cycle, the ISO images and FTP install directories for &os;
150 &release.prev;/i386 needed to be re-generated and re-uploaded to
151 the FTP mirror sites. For reference, the final ISO images have
152 checksums computed via &man.md5.1; as follows:</para>
154 <programlisting>MD5 (4.8-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso) = c4e34b6a6be5cd1977ca206bf821c7fc
155 MD5 (4.8-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = 93b09f97c01deead302557d7d24f87cb
156 MD5 (4.8-RELEASE-i386-mini.iso) = 5f0d2576dbb56d6ec85d49ac9fa4bbf9</programlisting>
158 <para>Some parts of the documentation may incorrectly give the
159 release date of &os; &release.prev; as March 2003, rather than
162 <para>&os; &release.prev; restores the ability to install from the
163 installation media to a &man.mly.4; device. (This capability
164 was broken in &os; 4.7-RELEASE.)</para>
166 <para>After installing <application>GNOME</application>, the
167 default terminal font might be garbled. If this is the case,
168 install the <filename
169 role="port">x11-fonts/bitstream-vera</filename> port, then
170 restart <application>GNOME</application>. The new fonts should
171 take effect automatically. If they do not, edit the current
172 gnome-terminal profile and select the Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
175 <para>Due to space limitations, the &man.awi.4; driver has been
176 removed from the kernel used on the 1.44MB
177 <filename>kern.flp</filename> i386 boot floppy. Because no
178 module is available for this driver in &os; &release.prev;, this
179 means that it is generally not possible to install &os;
180 &release.prev; over an &man.awi.4; network.</para>
182 <para>Due to space limitations, support for ATAPI floppy disks and
183 the DEC AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 (<quote>TurboLaser</quote>)
184 machines has been removed from the kernel used on the 1.44MB
185 <filename>kern.flp</filename> alpha boot floppy.</para>
187 <para>A bug in the &os; &release.prev; kernel prevents it from
188 booting on an Intel 80386 processor. This problem has been
189 corrected on both the &release.prev; security fix branch and the
190 &release.branch; development branch.</para>
192 <para>&os; supports a hashed form of the login capabilities
193 database, stored in <filename>/etc/login.conf.db</filename>.
194 This is generated from the <filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>
195 text file. If the hashed database is present, &man.login.1;
196 will use it in preference to the contents of the text file.
197 &os; &release.prev; is the first release that actually includes
198 <filename>/etc/login.conf.db</filename> on the distribution
199 media; thus, users modifying
200 <filename>/etc/login.conf</filename> need to remember to
201 regenerate the database, using &man.cap.mkdb.1;. Users
202 performing source upgrades are generally not affected by this
203 change, because &man.mergemaster.8; offers the option to
204 regenerate <filename>/etc/login.conf.db</filename> during
205 upgrades. &man.login.conf.5; has more details on the format and
206 usage of the login capabilities database.</para>
208 <para>A file that is a part of
210 role="port">multimedia/gstreamer-plugins</filename> port may
211 appear to have a corrupted filename when the ports collection is
212 installed using &man.sysinstall.8;. This should not
213 affect building the port or installing the corresponding
214 package. However, it is recommended to rename the file in
215 question, to prevent problems during any future updates to the
216 installed ports collection:</para>
218 <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/files</userinput>
219 &prompt.root; <userinput>mv patch-gst-libs_ext_ffmpeg_ffmpeg_libavcodec_alpha_simple_i \
220 patch-gst-libs_ext_ffmpeg_ffmpeg_libavcodec_alpha_simple_idct_alpha.c
221 </userinput></screen>
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