Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:18.openssl

From: Colin Percival (colin.percival_at_wadham.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 10/04/03

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    Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:14:05 +0100
    To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
    
    

    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 >.
    >
    >from what I can see no API is changed with this patch so wouldn't it be
    >possible to recompile libssl/libcrypto and install only them instead of
    >rebuilding the complete base system as suggested (assuming nothing in
    >the base system is statically linked against one of the two) ?

       I think that's probably enough, but I'm not sure; a couple hours from
    now I should be able to say for certain (at least for RELENG_4_7) as the
    latest FreeBSD Update build finishes.

    Colin Percival

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