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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:14:09 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Cc:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   OpenSSL warning from dns/bind95 build...?
Message-ID:  <DEB25E89-7447-4EA0-8800-23897C593756@mac.com>

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Hi, all--

Apropos of this security issue with BIND, I just tried updating a  
FreeBSD-6.3-STABLE system with dns/bind95, and it loudly complains  
about the OpenSSL version which comes with the system:

> [ ... ]
> config.status: creating include/isc/platform.h
> config.status: creating config.h
> WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING  
> WARNING WARNING
> WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING  
> WARNING WARNING
> WARNING 
>                                                                   
> WARNING
> WARNING         Your OpenSSL crypto library may be vulnerable  
> to        WARNING
> WARNING         one or more of the the following known  
> security         WARNING
> WARNING          
> flaws:                                                  WARNING
> WARNING 
>                                                                   
> WARNING
> WARNING         CAN-2002-0659, CAN-2006-4339, CVE-2006-2937  
> and         WARNING
> WARNING          
> CVE-2006-2940.                                          WARNING
> WARNING 
>                                                                   
> WARNING
> WARNING         It is recommended that you upgrade to  
> OpenSSL           WARNING
> WARNING         version 0.9.8d/0.9.7l (or  
> greater).                     WARNING
> WARNING 
>                                                                   
> WARNING
> WARNING         You can disable this warning by  
> specifying:             WARNING
> WARNING 
>                                                                   
> WARNING
> WARNING               --disable-openssl-version-check           
> 	        WARNING
> WARNING 
>                                                                   
> WARNING
> WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING  
> WARNING WARNING
> WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING  
> WARNING WARNING
> ===>  Building for bind95-base-9.5.0.1

Is the version of OpenSSL now included with RELENG_6 (OpenSSL 0.9.7e- 
p1) OK, or is it at risk as reported?

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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