Major Changes Between 6.0 and 6.0.1
The complete list of changes can be found in the CHANGES-6.0.1 file in the top level directory of the NetBSD 6.0.1 release tree. An abbreviated list is as follows:
Security Fixes
- expat: Fix CVE-2012-1147, CVE-2012-1148 and CVE-2012-0876.
- BIND: Address CVE-2012-5688: Named could die on specific queries with dns64 enabled.
General kernel
- posix_spawn(): Fix processes with attributes.
- Resolve races between vget() and vrele() resulting in vget() returning dead vnodes.
- Prevent crash when unsupported fd's are used with kevent.
Networking
- Fix "atomic fragments" for IPv6.
- ipf: Fix alignment issues in ipmon. (PR#47101)
- npf: handle delayed checksums in the network stack. (PR#47235)
File systems
smbfs: Make smbfs actually work on big-endian ports.
Drivers
- ciss(4): don't try to handle sensors if there aren't any.
Platforms
- x86 (i386, amd64):
Work around a possible gcc bug generating bad assembler code. (PR#45673)
Disable C1E on AMD K8 CPUs, to prevent freeze during boot.
- xen:
Prevent a memory corruption issue that locks up a Xen DomU, and can potentially cause file system corruption. (PR#47056, PR#47057)
Fix: Xen Dom0 NetBSD kernel could crash by adding duplicate xenwatches.
Userland fixes
- Update to tzdata2012j.
- cdb: don't refuse to open databases without entries or keys.
- Address graphics corruption in recent Cairo, manifested most commonly by certain rendered text sections appearing as solid rectangular blocks of color.
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