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From: polk@bsdi.com (Jeff Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.announce
Subject: BSDI: Official mods for BSD/OS 3.0
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Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:22:58 -0400
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New mods (through M300-021) are now available via anonymous ftp
from ftp.bsdi.com://ftp.bsdi.com/bsdi/patches/patches-3.0 or via
the <patches@BSDI.COM> email server. The README file entries for
the mods are included below. Some of these are security related.
Please contact BSDI support at support@BSDI.COM if you have problems
with these mods.
Jeff
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Mod : M300-012
Submods:
The mod (M300-004) to add PCI support to the Comtrol driver
did not update i386/conf/files. This would cause config disallow
rocket port cards to be configured at pci?. This mod updates
i386/conf/files so this will work as intended.
md5 checksum: 8257deb7d1068646e9aadb5560f44518 M300-012
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Mod : M300-013
Submods: M300-013.k M300-013.ksrc M300-013.kobj
Fix panic when an unlinked file or directory is referenced via
the union filesystem.
md5 checksum: 51523f558bdbdde818bda3e80112ad10 M300-013
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Mod : M300-014
Submods: M300-014.k M300-014.man M300-014.kobj
Add PHY driver for Intel 82555 chip. This adds support for newer
revisions of the Intel EtherExpress Pro100B.
md5 checksum: 9f7a5dbad4ae85f3e5a9d22e1d8d0220 M300-014
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Mod : M300-015
Submods: M300-015.ksrc M300-015.kobj
Performance fix for de driver; restores performance lost with
K210-023 (or 3.0).
md5 checksum: 3a16dcc348aa8c942b4e136c73ef9a30 M300-015
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Mod : M300-016
Submods: M300-016.kobj M300-016.ksrc
BSD/OS has traditionally checked the SCSI HBA (Host Bus
Adapter) residual count on all transfers. Some disk targets,
when doing disconnect, use the SCSI protocol in a manner
which makes it impossible for HBA to correctly determine
if there is a residual count. With this change the SCSI
disk driver (sd) will no longer check the HBA residual
count. This is safe because SCSI disk type device should
never have a HBA residual count.
md5 checksum: 4e86ef4cb929d555b7f34f5bd4c93e6e M300-016
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Mod : M300-017
Submods: M300-017.usrc M300-017.uobj
Fix security problems in metamail as described in CERT Advisory
CA-97.14.
md5 checksum: 67b78c617939aaf2ebe369f1f029fc74 M300-017
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Mod : M300-018
Submods: M300-018.usrc M300-018.uobj
Updated version of /etc/getty/fixttys script which correctly
handles blank lines.
md5 checksum: 8f704d5511da947cbd45455169c1956a M300-018
===========================================================================
Mod : M300-019
Submods: M300-019.ksrc M300-019.man M300-019.kobj
3Com EtherLink XL and Fast EtherLink XL (3C90x) driver.
It has been observed that 3C905 with an ASIC revision older
than 4 will sometimes lock up. This driver will reset the
card when it detects this condition, however performance
suffers. The customer is advised to contact 3Com for an
upgrade if there are too many log messages such as:
eb0: ebwatchdog: MIP reset eb0 0x8800 0xc80001
md5 checksum: 66dd71c60b16464db38395b7cd59b653 M300-019
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Mod : M300-020
Submods: M300-020.uobj
The setuid version of perl4 (/usr/bin/suidperl) suffers
from some of the same security problems as the un-patched
version of setuid perl5 (sperl5) which are fixed in U300-001.
Since perl4 is not straight-forward to fix and is no longer being
maintained, we will no longer support setuid perl4. If you have
setuid perl scripts, you should switch to using sperl5 which
we will continue to maintain.
This patch disables setuid perl 4 (/usr/bin/suidperl).
md5 checksum: ee821e111da60fc64c21097fd0ea144b M300-020
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Mod : M300-021
Submods: M300-021.ksrc M300-021.kobj
This mod solves a problem in which IP multicast packets
larger than the interface MTU were not being sent correctly.
md5 checksum: d96fdf25656cbe37d8b8526d4214fbd0 M300-021
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