Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:18:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Udo Schweigert <udo.schweigert@siemens.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/40324: security/pgp5 aborts on Pentium4 systems Message-ID: <200207080618.g686Ip4c099514@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
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>Number: 40324
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: security/pgp5 aborts on Pentium4 systems
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 07 23:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Udo Schweigert
>Release: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD alaska.cert.siemens.de 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #98: Sun Jul 7 17:39:41 CEST 2002 ust@alaska.cert.siemens.de:/usr/obj/work/src/RELENG_4/sys/alaska i386
>Description:
the pgp5 port aborts on every execution on P4-systems due to some timing
problems.
>How-To-Repeat:
Use pgp5 on a Pentium-IV machine.
>Fix:
Add this as files/patch-ah
--- lib/pgp/random/pgpRndUnix.c.orig Sat Aug 9 23:45:14 1997
+++ lib/pgp/random/pgpRndUnix.c Mon Jul 8 07:59:30 2002
@@ -307,7 +307,11 @@
if (!ticksize)
ticksize = ranTickSize();
- delta = (word32)(tickdiff(t, prevt) / ticksize);
+ if (ticksize) {
+ delta = (word32)(tickdiff(t, prevt) / ticksize);
+ } else {
+ delta = (word32)(tickdiff(t, prevt));
+ }
prevt = t;
return delta;
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