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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:41:03 -0700
From:      Darren Pilgrim <dmp@pantherdragon.org>
To:        gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch
Cc:        Geir =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E5ness?= <pulz@pulz.no>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About the openssl hole
Message-ID:  <3D47402F.83B37CBA@pantherdragon.org>
References:  <004001c237cf$23c00560$fa00a8c0@elixor> <170112657687.20020730181657@buz.ch> <000d01c237e5$ceede1d0$fa00a8c0@elixor> <5113861671.20020730183701@buz.ch> <002301c237ea$04b4d4f0$fa00a8c0@elixor> <2115515250.20020730190434@buz.ch> <3D470873.5C42BF65@pantherdragon.org>

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Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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> 
> Hello Geir,
> 
> Tuesday, July 30, 2002, 6:56:12 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > I talked with an freind of mine who tried this solution, and he told
> me that it where only one patch that failed.
> > If you remove the patch "patch-ah" the build will go fine.
> 
> > But as many know, the port of openssl will not completly replace the
> core openssl.
> > (You could see this if you build mod_ssl)
> 
> Well I could live without mod_ssl for the next hours, but I can't just
> go shutdown ssh on all boxes cause that would mean I'd have to go
> onsite to some 4 NOCs (two of them on the other side of the world) to
> have SSH get backup. Hmm. Maybe I'll just shut all SSL stuff down and
> have the NOC monkeys reboot them when the patch is here....
> 
> What's happening (I suppose) is that the port gets installed to
> /usr/local/lib whereas the the old version still is in /usr/lib where

Use -DOPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE.  I recommend people install the OpenSSL
port anyway, it gives you all those nifty extra programs that the
maintainer(s) for the in-base openssl has seen fit not to include.

> it belongs to as part of the base system which means that you probably
> have to overwrite the old lib by hand but I wouldn't want to guarantee
> that nothing is going to break if you do this.

I can say from personal experience that installing the openssl port
with -DOPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE doesn't break anything I've found or
use (openssh, mod_ssl, courier_imap, and postfix).

> To make it short: it's
> probably best to just wait and update your boxes ASAP

Why take down the whole machine, when you can use a port to just patch
the broke part?  That's what was so great about the OpenSSH port, it
let a lot of people who couldn't make world or reinstall upgrade their
copies of OpenSSH.

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