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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:23:45 +0200
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: OpenSSL warning from dns/bind95 build...?
Message-ID:  <20080713222344.GB15766@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <DEB25E89-7447-4EA0-8800-23897C593756@mac.com>
References:  <DEB25E89-7447-4EA0-8800-23897C593756@mac.com>

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On 2008.07.11 13:14:09 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:

[quote edited to contain important part]

>> WARNING         Your OpenSSL crypto library may be vulnerable to
>> WARNING         one or more of the the following known security
>> WARNING         flaws:
>> WARNING
>> WARNING         CAN-2002-0659, CAN-2006-4339, CVE-2006-2937 and
>> WARNING         CVE-2006-2940.
>> WARNING
[...]
> Is the version of OpenSSL now included with RELENG_6 (OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1)
> OK, or is it at risk as reported?

Just so there is no doubt - the base system OpenSSL isn't actually
vulnerable to those issues.  They were fixed in SA-02:33.openssl,
FreeBSD-SA-06:19.openssl, and FreeBSD-SA-06:23.openssl.

The BIND build system just has no way to see this since they were
patched instead of upgraded.

--
Simon L. Nielsen
Hats: Base system OpenSSL janitor and FreeBSD Security Team



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