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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:07:41 -0400
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <c16bfed1-52bb-560c-c73f-1edd0c1f876e@denninger.net>
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On 3/30/2021 12:02, Gary Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:55:24AM -0400, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> On 3/30/2021 11:22, Guido Falsi via freebsd-stable wrote:
>>> On 30/03/21 15:35, tech-lists wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Recently there was
>>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2021-March/0103=
80.html
>>>>
>>>> about openssl. Upgraded to 12.2-p5 with freebsd-update and rebooted.=

>>>>
>>>> What I'm unsure about is the openssl version.
>>>> Up-to-date 12.1-p5 instances report OpenSSL 1.1.1h-freebsd? 22 Sep 2=
020
>>>>
>>>> Up-to-date stable/13-n245043-7590d7800c4 reports OpenSSL 1.1.1k-free=
bsd
>>>> 25 Mar 2021
>>>>
>>>> shouldn't the 12.2-p5 be reporting openssl 1.1.1k-freebsd as well?
>>>>
>>> No, as you can see in the commit in the official git [1] while for
>>> current and stable the new upstream version of openssl was imported f=
or
>>> the release the fix was applied without importing the new release and=

>>> without changing the reported version of the library.
>>>
>>> So with 12.2p5 you do get the fix but don't get a new version of the
>>> library.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?h=3Dreleng/12.2&id=3Daf61348=
d61f51a88b438d41c3c91b56b2b65ed9b
>>>
>>>
>> Excuse me....
>>
>> $ uname -v
>> FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p4 GENERIC
>> $ sudo sh
>> # freebsd-update fetch
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 12.2-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org.=
=2E.
>> done.
>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Inspecting system... done.
>> Preparing to download files... done.
>>
>> No updates needed to update system to 12.2-RELEASE-p5.
>>
>> I am running 12.2-RELEASE-p4, so says uname -v
>>
>> IMHO it is an *extraordinarily* bad practice to change a library that =
in
>> fact will result in a revision change while leaving the revision numbe=
r
>> alone.
>>
>> How do I *know*, without source to go look at, whether or not the fix =
is
>> present on a binary system?
>>
>> If newvers.sh gets bumped then a build and -p5 release should have res=
ulted
>> from that, and in turn a fetch/install (and reboot of course since it'=
s in
>> the kernel) should result in uname -v returning "-p5"
>>
>> Most of my deployed "stuff" is on -STABLE but I do have a handful of
>> machines on cloud infrastructure that are binary-only and on which I r=
ely on
>> freebsd-update and pkg to keep current with security-related items.
> What does "freebsd-version -u" report?  The fix was only to a userland
> library, so I would not expect the kernel version as reported by uname
> to change.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary

Ok, that's fair; it DOES show -p5 for the user side.

$ freebsd-version -ru
12.2-RELEASE-p4
12.2-RELEASE-p5

So that says my userland is -p5 while the kernel, which did not change=20
(even though if you built from source it would carry the -p5 number) is -=
p4.

I can live with that as it allows me to "see" that indeed the revision=20
is present without having source on the box.

I recognize that this is probably a reasonably-infrequent thing but it=20
certainly is one that for people running binary releases is likely quite =

important given that the issue is in the openssl libraries.=C2=A0 It was =

enough for me to rebuild all the firewall machines the other day since a =

DOS (which is reasonably possible for one of the flaws) aimed at my VPN=20
server causing the server process to exit would be...... bad.

--=20
Karl Denninger
karl@denninger.net <mailto:karl@denninger.net>
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