NetBSD 7.2 released (August 29, 2018)
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.2, the second feature update of the NetBSD 7 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.
General Security Note
The NetBSD 7.2 release is a maintenance release of the netbsd-7 branch, which had it's first major release, NetBSD 7.0 in September 2015. A lot of security features have been added to later NetBSD versions, and for new installations we highly recommend using our latest release, NetBSD 10.1 instead.
Some highlights of the 7.2 release are:
- Support for USB 3.0.
- Enhancements to the Linux emulation subsystem.
- Fixes in binary compatibility for ancient NetBSD executables.
- iwm(4) driver for Intel Wireless 726x, 316x, 826x and 416x series added.
- Support for Raspberry Pi 3 added.
- Fix interrupt setup on Hyper-V VMs with Legacy Network Adapter.
- SVR4 and IBCS2 compatibility subsystems have been disabled by default (besides IBCS2 on VAX). These subsystems also do not auto-load their modules any more.
- Various USB stability enhancements.
- Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements.
Complete source and binaries for NetBSD 7.2 are available for download at many sites around the world. A list of download sites providing FTP, AnonCVS, SUP, and other services may be found at https://www.NetBSD.org/mirrors/. We encourage users who wish to install via ISO or USB disk images to download via BitTorrent by using the torrent files supplied in the images area. A list of hashes for the NetBSD 7.2 distribution has been signed with the well-connected PGP key for the NetBSD Security Officer: https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/hashes/NetBSD-7.2_hashes.asc
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Below is an abbreviated list of changes in this release. The complete list of changes since NetBSD 7.1 can be found in the CHANGES-7.2 file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 7.2 release tree.
The following security advisories were fixed:
- NetBSD-SA2018-007 Several vulnerabilities in IPsec
- NetBSD-SA2018-008 Several vulnerabilities in NPF
Note: Advisories prior to NetBSD-SA2018-007 do not affect NetBSD 7.2.
- Xorg-server: fixes for CVE-2017-10971, CVE-2017-10972, CVE-2017-12176 to CVE-2017-12187 (the latter also applied to old XFree server)
- Heimdahl updated to 7.1, fixing CVE-2016-2400.
- WPA: fixes for CVE-2017-13077 CVE-2017-13078 CVE-2017-13079 CVE-2017-13080 CVE-2017-13081 CVE-2017-13082 CVE-2017-13086 CVE-2017-13087 CVE-2017-13088.
- libXfont and libXcursor: fixes for CVEs 2017-13722, 2017-13720, 2017-16611, and 2017-16612.
- Fixes from libX11 1.6.5 for CVE-2018-14599, CVE-2018-14600, CVE-2018-14598.
- Kerberos fixed to avoid impersonation attacks on the KDC-REP service.
- Prevent unrestricted userland access to I/O ports in XEN.
- carp(4): fix link state handling.
- ipf(4): fragment and package state are separate, the user needs to specify both "keep state" and "keep frags" to get the same behaviour as before.
- iwm(4) driver for Intel Wireless 726x, 316x, 826x and 416x series added.
- bridge(4): Add handling of VLAN packets where the parent supports it.
- wm(4): various improvements and add support for more hardware.
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x86:
- Handle stack faults on iret proerly
- Increase max io mem on amd64
- System calls in ancient (native) binaries that used the osyscall call gate is now done via emulation, as the call gate allowed for a race condition that could panic the kernel.
- Option VM86 (virtual 8086 emulation) has been removed from GENERIC kernels. Use an emulator instead.
- Fixed interrupt setup on Hyper-V VMs with Legacy Network Adapter.
- Made the direct map non-executable on amd64.
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xen:
- Make xen dom0 SMP bootable again.
- Improve xennet(4) performance.
-
powerpc:
- Fix execution of old binaries generated by old (and buggy) binutils.
-
hpcarm:
- Restore wscons keymaps feature
-
evbarm:
- Add support for Raspberry Pi 3.
-
sparc:
- Fixed ddb(4) errors due to alignement issues.
- Fixed time goes backwards problems.
- Improve interprocessor interrupt handling.
- Make audio work again on some machines.
- ld.elf_so(1): fixes to the promotion of DSO TLS blocks into statis thread allocation.
- xdr(3): fixed RPCBPROC_GETSTAT endocde/decode interoperability with other operating systems.
- resize_ffs(8): Fixed overflow errors which could lead to superblock corruption on large filesystems.
- Update root.cache to 2017102400.
- httpd(8): fixed errors when executing cgi scripts via the -C mechanism.
- httpd(8): do not degrade https to http when redirecting or returning errors.
- inetd(8): increased max argument count to 64.
- gpt(8): various improvements and new options.
- 3rd party software updates:
Please use a mirror site close to you.
The NetBSD 7.2 release provides supported binary distributions for the following systems:
NetBSD/acorn26 | Acorn Archimedes, A-series and R-series systems |
NetBSD/acorn32 | Acorn RiscPC/A7000, VLSI RC7500 |
NetBSD/algor | Algorithmics, Ltd. MIPS evaluation boards |
NetBSD/alpha | Digital/Compaq Alpha (64-bit) |
NetBSD/amd64 | AMD family processors like Opteron, Athlon64, and Intel CPUs with EM64T extension |
NetBSD/amiga | Commodore Amiga and MacroSystem DraCo |
NetBSD/amigappc | PowerPC-based Amiga boards. |
NetBSD/arc | MIPS-based machines following the Advanced RISC Computing spec |
NetBSD/atari | Atari TT030, Falcon, Hades |
NetBSD/bebox | Be Inc's BeBox |
NetBSD/cats | Chalice Technology's CATS and Intel's EBSA-285 evaluation boards |
NetBSD/cesfic | CES FIC8234 VME processor board |
NetBSD/cobalt | Cobalt Networks' MIPS-based Microservers |
NetBSD/dreamcast | Sega Dreamcast game console |
NetBSD/emips | The Extensible MIPS architecture from Microsoft Research |
NetBSD/epoc32 | Psion EPOC PDAs |
NetBSD/evbarm | Various ARM-based evaluation boards and appliances |
NetBSD/evbmips | Various MIPS-based evaluation boards and appliances |
NetBSD/evbppc | Various PowerPC-based evaluation boards and appliances |
NetBSD/evbsh3 | Various Hitachi Super-H SH3 and SH4-based evaluation boards and appliances |
NetBSD/ews4800mips | NEC's MIPS-based EWS4800 workstation |
NetBSD/hp300 | Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 and 400 series |
NetBSD/hppa | Hewlett-Packard 9000 Series 700 workstations |
NetBSD/hpcarm | StrongARM based Windows CE PDA machines |
NetBSD/hpcmips | MIPS-based Windows CE PDA machines |
NetBSD/hpcsh | Hitachi Super-H based Windows CE PDA machines |
NetBSD/i386 | IBM PCs and PC clones with i486-family processors and up |
NetBSD/ibmnws | IBM Network Station 1000 |
NetBSD/iyonix | Castle Technology's Iyonix ARM based PCs |
NetBSD/landisk | SH4 processor based NAS appliances |
NetBSD/luna68k | OMRON Tateisi Electric's LUNA series |
NetBSD/mac68k | Apple Macintosh with Motorola 68k CPU |
NetBSD/macppc | Apple PowerPC-based Macintosh and clones |
NetBSD/mipsco | MIPS Computer Systems Inc. family of workstations and servers |
NetBSD/mmeye | Brains mmEye multimedia server |
NetBSD/mvme68k | Motorola MVME 68k Single Board Computers |
NetBSD/mvmeppc | Motorola PowerPC VME Single Board Computers |
NetBSD/netwinder | StrongARM based NetWinder machines |
NetBSD/news68k | Sony's 68k-based “NET WORK STATION” series |
NetBSD/newsmips | Sony's MIPS-based “NET WORK STATION” series |
NetBSD/next68k | NeXT 68k “black” hardware |
NetBSD/ofppc | OpenFirmware PowerPC machines |
NetBSD/pmax | Digital MIPS-based DECstations and DECsystems |
NetBSD/prep | PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP machines |
NetBSD/rs6000 | IBM RS/6000 MCA-based PowerPC machines. |
NetBSD/sandpoint | Motorola Sandpoint reference platform, including many PPC-based NAS boxes |
NetBSD/sbmips | Broadcom SiByte evaluation boards |
NetBSD/sgimips | Silicon Graphics' MIPS-based workstations |
NetBSD/shark | Digital DNARD (“shark”) |
NetBSD/sparc | Sun SPARC (32-bit) and UltraSPARC (in 32-bit mode) |
NetBSD/sparc64 | Sun UltraSPARC (in native 64-bit mode) |
NetBSD/sun2 | Sun Microsystems Sun 2 machines with Motorola 68010 CPU |
NetBSD/sun3 | Motorola 68020 and 030 based Sun 3 and 3x machines |
NetBSD/vax | Digital VAX |
NetBSD/x68k | Sharp X680x0 series |
NetBSD/xen | The Xen virtual machine monitor |
NetBSD/zaurus | Sharp ARM PDAs |
Ports available in source form only for this release include the following:
NetBSD/ia64 | Itanium family of processors |
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