This chapter summarizes the base operating system patches included in Patch Kit-0001.
Table 2-1 lists patches that have been updated.
Patch IDs | Change Summary |
Patches 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00, 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 55.00, 11.00, 12.00, 25.00, 16.00, 17.00, 18.00, 19.00, 20.00, 22.00, 26.00, 28.00, 31.00, 67.00, 32.00, 54.00, 34.00, 35.00, 36.00, 37.00, 38.00, 39.00, 40.00, 42.00, 43.00, 44.00, 45.00, 47.00, 53.00, 56.00, 57.00, 58.00, 59.00, 60.00, 61.00, 63.00, 74.00, 21.00, 66.00, 41.00, 68.00, 46.00, 69.00, 62.00, 70.00, 48.00, 71.00, 73.00, 72.00, 75.00 | New |
Patch 1.00 | Superseded by Patch 2.00 |
Patches 9.00, 10.00, 13.00, 27.00 | Superseded by Patch 55.00 |
Patches 15.00, 23.00, 24.00 | Superseded by Patch 25.00 |
Patch 30.00 | Superseded by Patch 31.00 |
Patches 33.00, 49.00, 50.00, 51.00, 52.00 | Superseded by Patch 54.00 |
Patch 64.00 | Superseded by Patch 74.00 |
Patch 14.00 | Superseded by Patch 21.00 |
Table 2-2 provides a summary of patches in Patch Kit-0001.
Patch IDs | Abstract |
Patch 2.00 OSF440CDE-002 |
Patch: Security (SSRT0571U) State: New. Supersedes patch OSF440CDE-001 (1.00) This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 3.00 OSF440CDE-003 |
Patch: Security (SSRT0585U) State: New A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability. |
Patch 4.00 OSF440CDE-004 |
Patch: Security (SSRT0580U) State: New A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability. |
Patch 5.00 OSF440CDE-005 |
Patch: : dtfile May Leave Defunct Processes State: New Fixes a problem where the CDE File Manager (dtfile) sometimes left defunct processes. |
Patch 6.00 OSF440CDE-006 |
Patch: Security (SSRT0600U) State: New A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability. |
Patch 7.00 OSF440DX-001 |
Patch: dxcalendar Reminder Displays Through dxpause Screen State: New Fixes the problem where the dxcalendar reminder displays through the pause screen (dxpause) and remains on the top of the pause window. |
Patch 8.00 OSF440-010 |
Patch: Fix For POP Mail Handler State: New This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 11.00 OSF440-013 |
Patch: Security (SSRT0596U) State: New A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability. |
Patch 12.00 OSF440-014 |
Patch: Security (SSRT0567U) State: New A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances, system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file or privilege management. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability. |
Patch 16.00 OSF440-018 |
Patch: Fixes Kernel Memory Fault Caused By SMP Race State: New Fixes a kernel memory fault caused by a streams SMP race condition. |
Patch 17.00 OSF440-019 |
Patch: Fix For BIND Server State: New This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 18.00 OSF440-002 |
Patch: Resolves Corrupt EV6 Binary Error Log Entries State: New Resolves corrupt EV6 binary error log entries for IOP detected UDE (Uncorrectable Data Error) packets on AlphaServer 8200/8400 platforms. |
Patch 19.00 OSF440-020 |
Patch: Fix For yacc State: New Fixes a problem in yacc that causes it to generate parse tables that result in the parser not executing a user-specified error recovery action. If a yacc specification worked in Version 3.2 and no longer works in 4.0, this may be the problem. |
Patch 20.00 OSF440-022 |
Patch: Cannot Use ipcs Cmd On System Not Booted With vmunix State: New Corrects a problem that prevents a user from using the ipcs command on a system whose kernel has been booted from a file that is not /vmunix. |
Patch 21.00 OSF440-023A |
Patch: Fix For XTI And DECnet/OSI State: New. Supersedes patch OSF440-016A (14.00) This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 22.00 OSF440-024 |
Patch: automount Daemon Hangs State: New Fixes a problem in which the automount daemon hangs when invoked by the rsh command. |
Patch 25.00 OSF440-028 |
Patch: Fix For ksh, file, tail, nawk, awk, And pax State: Supersedes patches OSF440-017 (15.00), OSF440-026 (23.00), OSF440-027 (24.00) This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 26.00 OSF440-029 |
Patch: Fix For defragment -V Option State: New Fixes a problem with the defragment command, where the -V option is not being parsed properly. |
Patch 28.00 OSF440-030 |
Patch: Security (SSRT0556U) State: New A potential security vulnerability has been discovered, where under certain circumstances users may gain unauthorized access. Compaq has corrected this potential vulnerability. |
Patch 31.00 OSF440-033A |
Patch: Security (SSRT0563U) State: New. Supersedes patch OSF440-032 (30.00) This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 32.00 OSF440-034 |
Patch: mkdir -p Not Returning Error State: New Fixes a problem with the "mkdir -p" command. "mkdir -p" would not return an error if the last component in the pathname already exists. |
Patch 34.00 OSF440-004 |
Patch: Fix For kio Subsystem Panic State: New Fixes a panic seen when accessing the kio subsystem (such as with consvar) with improper arguments. The panic was caused by a kernel double-free, and would most likely be seen as a corruption in either the 64 or 96 byte bucket (buckets 2 and 16). |
Patch 35.00 OSF440-040 |
Patch: Enhancement For verify Utility State: New This enhancement for the /sbin/advfs/verify utility allows it to detect loops in the list of free frags kept in the frags file. |
Patch 36.00 OSF440-041 |
Patch: volrootmir -a Cmd Fails State: New Fixes a problem wherer the LSM command "volrootmir -a" fails if the source and target disks are not the same type. |
Patch 37.00 OSF440-042 |
Patch: volrecover Not Returning Failed Status Code State: New Corrects a problem in which a failure of the volrecover utility will not return a failed status code. |
Patch 38.00 OSF440-043 |
Patch: quotaon Returns Incorrect Error Status State: New Fixes a problem in which the quotaon command returned an incorrect error status if the file system did not exist. |
Patch 39.00 OSF440-044 |
Patch: System Panic When Accessing ISO9660 Format CDROM State: New Fixes a problem where a system panic will occur when accessing an ISO9660 format CDROM. |
Patch 40.00 binmail Delivers Only Partial Messages |
Patch: State: New Binmail corrected to prevent partial delivery of mail messages when disk quota is reached. |
Patch 41.00 OSF440-047A |
Patch: Fix For nroff Y2K Problem State: New Fixes a Y2K problem with the nroff text formatter in which the years after 1999 are translated to be 19xxx with 'xxx' being the number of years that have passed since 1900. Thus, the year 2010 displays as 19110. |
Patch 42.00 OSF440-048 |
Patch: Fixes For vrestore Command State: New Fixes two problems with the vrestore command:
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Patch 43.00 OSF440-049 |
Patch: Fix For XTI Over TCP/IP State: New Fixes a problem with XTI over TCP/IP when tcp_sendspace and tcp_recvspace have been decreased to 1k. When sending 4k data (using t_snd), the call is successful but no data has been sent and no message is returned. |
Patch 44.00 OSF440-005 |
Patch: Fix For Kernel Memory Fault State: New Fixes a kmf problem in bucket 2 (64 byte bucket ) when the type of SCSI device dynamically changes. |
Patch 45.00 OSF440-051 |
Patch: Fix For sort -i Abort Problem State: New Fixes a problem in which "sort -i a_file >b_file" aborts with message "A line of the input file contains more than 20480 characters." when LANG = da_DK.ISO8859-1. |
Patch 46.00 OSF440-052A |
Patch: Shared Library Fix For curses-based Applications State: New The keymap used with curses functionality was not in sync with the table contained in the term.h header file. This change corrects that and enables several non-functioning keys in curses-based applications. |
Patch 47.00 OSF440-053 |
Patch: vi Puts Server Port INTO PASSALL MODE State: New Fixes a problem where vi puts the server port into PASSALL MODE (where XON/XOFF is no longer effective). This creates garbage in the file. |
Patch 48.00 OSF440-054A |
Patch: DECthreads Library Fix State: New Fixes problems in the DECthreads library for Tru64 UNIX. Included in this patch are changes to support Ladebug enhancements and a bug fix for applications which employ SCS threads of different priorities. |
Patch 53.00 OSF440-006 |
Patch: Fix For spo_process_rsp Panic State: New Fixes a panic that occurs when KZPSA resources aren't available to re-enable a channel or a device after a bus reset. The panic string is as follows: panic("(spo_process_rsp) ran out of memory!")
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Patch 54.00 OSF440-060A |
Patch: AdvFS volumes Not Setting I/O Byte Transfer Size State: New. Supersedes patches OSF440-036 (33.00), OSF440-056 (49.00), OSF440-057 (50.00), OSF440-058 (51.00), OSF440-059 (52.00) This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 55.00 OSF440-061 |
Patch: New Functionality To Detect Unlinked Reference Files State: New. Supersedes patches OSF440-011 (9.00), OSF440-012 (10.00), OSF440-015 (13.00), OSF440-003 (27.00) This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 56.00 OSF440-062 |
Patch: KZPCA Host Bus Adapter May Hang State: New Fixes a problem in which a system with a KZPCA host bus adapter may hang when the SCSI bus is reset. |
Patch 57.00 OSF440-063 |
Patch: Fixes Several NFS Problems State: New Corrects several NFS problems:
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Patch 58.00 OSF440-065 |
Patch: Additional Error Detection for FC Driver State: New Adds additional error detection to the FC driver. |
Patch 59.00 OSF440-007 |
Patch: Characters Randomly Repeated Using tip State: New This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 60.00 OSF440-008 |
Patch: Fix For spo_misc_errors errlog Entries State: New Fixes the cause of the spurious spo_misc_errors errlog entry on 4100 class systems. |
Patch 61.00 OSF440X11-001 |
Patch: Enhancement For makedepend Utility State: New Increases the maximum number of files that one file can depend on in the makedepend utility from 1024 to 4096. |
Patch 62.00 OSF440X11-002A |
Patch: Fix For Motif Drag-and-Drop State: New Fixes a problem with Motif Drag-and-Drop where if a parent drop site was unregistered before a child drop site, subsequently unregistering the child drop site would cause a segmentation fault. |
Patch 63.00 OSF440X11-003 |
Patch: xfs Fails With Segmentation Fault State: New Fixes a problem where the X font server (xfs) sometimes failed with a segmentation fault when it received an invalid request. |
Patch 66.00 OSF440-023B |
Patch: libxti/libtli Static Library Fix State: New. Supersedes patch OSF440-016B (65.00) This patch corrects the following:
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Patch 67.00 OSF440-033B |
Patch: mount Cmd Sometimes Kills Other Processes State: New Fixes a problem with the mount command where it sometimes kills other processes. |
Patch 68.00 OSF440-047B |
Patch: nroff Incorrectly Translates Years After 1999 State: New Fixes a Y2K problem with the nroff text formatter in which the years after 1999 are translated to be 19xxx with 'xxx' being the number of years that have passed since 1900. Thus, the year 2010 displays as 19110. |
Patch 69.00 OSF440-052B |
Patch: Static Library Fix For curses-based Applications State: New The keymap used with curses functionality was not in sync with the table contained in the term.h header file. This change corrects that and enables several non-functioning keys in curses-based applications. |
Patch 70.00 OSF440X11-002B |
Patch: libXm Static Library Fix For Motif Drag-and-Drop State: New Fixes a problem with Motif Drag-and-Drop where if a parent drop site was unregistered before a child drop site, subsequently unregistering the child drop site would cause a segmentation fault. |
Patch 71.00 OSF440-054B |
Patch: Ladebug Enhancements State: New Fixes problems in the DECthreads library for Tru64 UNIX. Included in this patch are changes to support Ladebug enhancements and a bug fix for applications which employ SCS threads of different priorities. |
Patch 72.00 OSF440-078 |
Patch: Updates FORE ATM (lfa) driver to Rev. V1.0.14 State: New Updates the FORE ATM (lfa) driver to Revision V1.0.14. |
Patch 73.00 OSF440-088 |
Patch: Fix For Powerstorm 4D10T Graphics Board State: New Fixes various problems with the driver support for the Powerstorm 4D10T (ELSA Gloria Synergy) graphics board. |
Patch 74.00 OSF440X11-007 |
Patch:
Fix For Powerstorm 4D10T Graphics Board
MARY ELLEN:
This description is identical to Patch 73.00.
State:
New.
Supersedes patch OSF440X11-004 (64.00)
This patch corrects the following:
Fixes a problem where on systems with a Powerstorm 4D10T (ELSA
Gloria Synergy) graphics board, sometimes the graphics board was not initialized
properly and failed to work on power-up or when the X server was restarted.
Fixes a problem where on systems with a Powerstorm 4D10T (ELSA
Gloria Synergy) graphics board, sometimes the X server does not draw lines
correctly.
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Patch 75.00 OSF440-060B |
Patch: chvol Read & Write Transfer Size Increased State: New This patch provides the following fixes and enhancements to AdvFS:
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