From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 17:06:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAC0616A4B3 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E427B43FEC for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 17:06:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC151FF8FA for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 02:06:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id D929E1FF8FE; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 02:06:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id 01B97153CA; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F326E15380 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:06:05 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200310032249.h93MnXS8047857@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <200310032249.h93MnXS8047857@freefall.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020300 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 00:06:19 -0000 On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: Hi, > V. Solution > > Perform one of the following: ... > 2) To patch your present system: ... > c) Recompile the operating system as described in > . > > Note that any statically linked applications that are not part of the > base system (i.e. from the Ports Collection or other 3rd-party sources) > must be recompiled. this seems to be a default disclaimer for the openssl advisories but at this point I am asking myself if there are any applications statically linked against librypto or libssl in the base system ? from what I can see no API is changed with this patch so wouldn't it be possible to recompile libssl/libcrypto and install only them instead of rebuilding the complete base system as suggested (assuming nothing in the base system is statically linked against one of the two) ? -- Greetings Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT 56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/