Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:00:38 +1000 (EST) From: Keyran Bayliss <k.bayliss@qut.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Openssl 0.9.8b and libmp Message-ID: <20060609145800.I68157@danger.its.dias.qut.edu.au>
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Hi,
Once I install openssl 0.9.8b I get a bus error from telnet of all things!
I'm using 5.4-RELEASE (which may be the problem).
Does anyone have it working ?
For myself I went trolling through the code and found the following:
It seems that from version 0.9.7j to 0.9.8b the code for BN_CTX_init
(in crypto/bn/bn_ctx.c) has changed to stop allowing the static declaration
of the BN_CTX type.
The helpful author even says it's changed:
/* Assume the caller obtained the context via BN_CTX_new() and so is
* trying to reset it for use. Nothing else makes sense, least of all
* binary compatibility from a time when they could declare a static
* variable. */
But libraries like libmp declare static BN_CTX variables in many routines
(including mult which telnet calls) and many of these routines are void
so couldn't return errors even if it was appropriate to use BN_CTX_new
as the author suggests.
Given all this, I assume I've missed something blindingly obvious but
for the life of me I can't see what it is.
Anyone have a misery fixer for me ?
K.
PS. It seems increasingly like openssl did not have FreeBSD in mind
as even the Configure script stopped having "FreeBSD" as an
option.
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