FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-25:14.route
8 August, 2025 by errata-notices@freebsd.org | freebsd
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FreeBSD-EN-25:14.route Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: route(8) monitor buffers too much when redirected to a file
Category: core
Module: route
Announced: 2025-08-08
Affects: FreeBSD 14.x
Corrected: 2025-07-21 02:13:16 UTC (stable/14, 14.3-STABLE)
2025-08-08 00:39:04 UTC (releng/14.3, 14.3-RELEASE-p2)
2025-08-08 00:39:17 UTC (releng/14.2, 14.2-RELEASE-p5)
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Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security
branches, and the following sections, please visit
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
route(8)'s `monitor` command continuously reports routing changes on the system,
which may be used interactively or by other tooling. When a command's output
is redirected to a file, its standard output becomes fully buffered.
II. Problem Description
In FreeBSD 14.x, route(8) does not flush its standard output at distinct message
boundaries as it previously did in FreeBSD 13.x and before. As such, it could
appear that no changes are happening on the system when its output has been
redirected to a file.
III. Impact
Other programs that rely on `route monitor` are likely to miss changes that
they are expecting to see, unless routing tables/information are changing at
a high frequency.
IV. Workaround
Use `stdbuf -oL route monitor` to force the output of `route monitor` to be
line-buffered. See stdbuf(1). Programs watching `route monitor` output are
not incredibly common.
V. Solution
Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security
branch (releng) dated after the correction date, and restart any affected
services.
Perform one of the following:
1) To update your system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64 or arm64 platforms,
or the i386 platform on FreeBSD 13, can be updated via the freebsd-update(8)
utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
2) To update your system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-25:14/route.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-25:14/route.patch.asc
# gpg --verify route.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as
described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>.
VI. Correction details
This issue is corrected as of the corresponding Git commit hash in the
following stable and release branches:
Branch/path Hash Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/14/ dd695839efd8 stable/14-n271995
releng/14.3/ 97f34921d77b releng/14.3-n271437
releng/14.2/ 168703212b61 releng/14.2-n269531
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Run the following command to see which files were modified by a
particular commit:
# git show --stat <commit hash>
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the hash:
<URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=NNNNNN>
To determine the commit count in a working tree (for comparison against
nNNNNNN in the table above), run:
# git rev-list --count --first-parent HEAD
VII. References
<URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id'8265>
<URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id'5026>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-25:14.route.asc>
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