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FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE Errata

Abstract

This document lists errata items for FreeBSD 11.1-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.

This errata document for FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE.

Table of Contents

Introduction

This errata document contains "late-breaking news" about FreeBSD 11.1-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.

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version of this errata document actually distributed with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on the Internet and should be consulted as the "current errata" for this release.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 https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/, plus any sites which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.

Source and binary snapshots of FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE also contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of the snapshot).

For a list of all FreeBSD CERT security advisories, see https://www.FreeBSD.org/security/.

Security Advisories

Advisory Date Topic

FreeBSD-SA-17:06.openssh

10 August 2017

Denial of Service vulnerability

FreeBSD-SA-17:07.wpa

16 October 2017

WPA2 protocol vulnerability

FreeBSD-SA-17:08.ptrace

15 November 2017

Kernel data leak via ptrace(PT_LWPINFO)

FreeBSD-SA-17:10.kldstat

15 November 2017

Information leak

FreeBSD-SA-17:11.openssl

29 November 2017

Multiple vulnerabilities

FreeBSD-SA-17:12.openssl

09 December 2017

Multiple vulnerabilities

FreeBSD-SA-18:01.ipsec

07 March 2018

Fix IPSEC validation and use-after-free

FreeBSD-SA-18:02.ntp

07 March 2018

Multiple vulnerabilities

FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculative_execution

14 March 2018

Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

FreeBSD-SA-18:04.vt

04 April 2018

Fix vt(4) console memory disclosure

FreeBSD-SA-18:05.ipsec

04 April 2018

Fix denial of service

FreeBSD-SA-18:06.debugreg

08 May 2018

Mishandling of x86 debug exceptions

FreeBSD-SA-18:07.lazyfpu

21 June 2018

Fix Lazy FPU information disclosure

Note:
This advisory addresses the most significant issues for FreeBSD 11.1 on amd64 CPUs. We expect to update this advisory to include 10.x for amd64 CPUs. Future FreeBSD releases will address this issue on i386 and other CPUs.

Errata Notices

Errata Date Topic

FreeBSD-EN-17:07.vnet

10 August 2017

VNET kernel panic with asynchronous I/O

FreeBSD-EN-17:08.pf

10 August 2017

pf(4) housekeeping thread causes kernel panic

FreeBSD-EN-17:09.tzdata

2 November 2017

Timezone database information update

FreeBSD-EN-18:01.tzdata

07 March 2018

Timezone database information update

FreeBSD-EN-18:02.file

07 March 2018

Stack-based buffer overflow

FreeBSD-EN-18:03.tzdata

04 April 2018

Update timezone database information

FreeBSD-EN-18:04.mem

04 April 2018

Multiple small kernel memory disclosures

FreeBSD-EN-18:05.mem

08 May 2018

Multiple small kernel memory disclosures

FreeBSD-EN-18:06.tzdata

08 May 2018

Update timezone database information

FreeBSD-EN-18:07.pmap

21 June 2018

Fix TLB for Xen guests

Open Issues

  • FreeBSD/i386 installed on ZFS may crash during boot when the ZFS pool mount is attempted while booting an unmodified GENERIC kernel.

    A system tunable has been added as of revision r286584 to make the kern.kstack_pages tunable configurable without recompiling the kernel.

    To mitigate system crashes with such configurations, choose Escape to loader prompt in the boot menu and enter the following lines from loader(8) prompt, after an OK:

    set kern.kstack_pages=4
boot

    Add this line to /boot/loader.conf for the change to persist across reboots:

    kern.kstack_pages=4

  • [2017-07-21] Due to a bug in earlier versions of clang(1) that is difficult to work around in the upgrade process, to upgrade the system from sources via buildworld to -CURRENT or 11.1-RELEASE, it is necessary to upgrade machines running 9.x to at least revision r286035, or machines running 10.x to revision r286033. Source-based upgrades from 10.3-RELEASE are not affected. This differs from the historical situation where one could generally upgrade from anywhere on earlier stable branches, so caution should be exercised.

  • [2017-07-25] FreeBSD/arm64 currently lacks EFI real-time clock (RTC) support, which may cause the system to boot with the wrong time set.

    As a workaround, either enable ntpdate(8) or include ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" in rc.conf(5).

  • [2017-07-25] A late issue was discovered with FreeBSD/arm64 and "root on ZFS" installations where the root ZFS pool would fail to be located.

    There currently is no workaround.

  • [2017-07-26] Note for those upgrading from 11.1-RC2 in VirtualBox:

    If system panics were experienced when upgrading from 11.1-RC1 to 11.1-RC2, and the emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions{,-nox11} port was built locally as a resolution, the port will either need to be rebuilt when upgrading from 11.1-RC2 to 11.1-RELEASE, or reinstall the package from the pkg(8) mirrors using either:

     # pkg install -f virtualbox-ose-additions

    or

     # pkg install -f virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11

    To ensure the system does not panic after rebooting into the updated kernel, it is recommended to disable the vboxguest service in rc.conf(5) prior to rebooting the system if possible, or use pkg(8) to forcefully reinstall the package.

    Systems being upgraded from 11.1-RC1 and earlier and 11.1-RC3 to 11.1-RELEASE should be unaffected.

  • [2017-07-27] The release notes erroneously state revision r315330 was sponsored by Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate), when in fact this work was done by Hiroki Mori independently.

  • [2017-08-09] The release notes stated the ruptime(1), rwho(1), and rwhod(8) utilities have been marked "deprecated", however this change was reversed in 12.0-CURRENT.

    The other utilities mentioned in the entry in the release notes, however, are unchanged.

  • [2017-11-06] An issue with FreeBSD virtual machines with vagrant was discovered that affects the VirtualBox where the virtual machine will not start on the initial boot invoked with vagrant up.

    The issue is due to the virtual machine MAC being unset, as FreeBSD does not provide a default Vagrantfile.

    It has been observed, however, that a subsequent invocation of vagrant up will allow the virtual machine to successfully boot, allowing access via vagrant ssh.

Late-Breaking News

No news.