Re: OpenSSH affected by recent OpenSSL security problems?

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel@verizon.net)
Date: 03/23/03


From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 22:25:31 GMT

Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> Neil W Rickert sez:
>
>>iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>>
>>
>>>There have been a couple of security problems with OpenSSL recently (timing
>>>based attack and the Klima-Pokorny-Rosa attack, see http://www.openssl.org/
>>>for more information). I was wondering if these issues affect OpenSSH, and
>>>how serious is this for OpenSSH. Basically I want to know how soon I need
>>>to rebuild OpenSSH with a new OpenSSL library for all the architectures we
>>>build it for.
>>
>
> ....
>
>
>>If you are using dynamic openssl libraries, then you should only
>>need to rebuild those without recompiling openssh.
>
>
> That's what I thought. And then I found out that libcryto's soname
> is 0.9.7 (old one had 0.9.6). So you can't upgrade from 0.9.6x to
> 0.9.7y without rebuilding openssh and everything else linked with
> openssl's so's.
>
> Dima

Yes, you can. You have to build a spare set of compatibility libraries
for old software you're not ready to replace: take a look at the RedHat
RPM's for how such things can be done.



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