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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl
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At 00:06 04/10/2003 +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
> > c) Recompile the operating system as described in
> > <URL: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >.
>
>wouldn't it be
>possible to recompile libssl/libcrypto and install only them instead of
>rebuilding the complete base system as suggested

   Just to confirm the contents of my earlier email: The only binaries 
affected by this in RELENG_4_7 are /usr/lib/lib(ssl|crypto)(.a|.so.2|_p.a) 
-- so rebuilding those two libraries (and any statically linked ports 
software) should be enough.

Colin Percival