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From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti_bsd@yahoo.com>
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--- "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:20:09PM -0800, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> > Do you imply that applications with ability to use Kerberos
> > ciphersuites are impossible to be implemented for current versions
> > of FreeBSD?
> 
> The base system OpenSSL has no support for implementing the Kerberos
> ciphersuites (the OpenSSL code is extremely MIT Kerberos specific).
> 
> The ports system OpenSSL appears to have no support, either.

Finally someone gave a good explanation to my question. This
explanation is quite enough to understand that FreeBSD is not
vulnerable to mentioned OpenSSL flaw. Thank you!

> If one compiles OpenSSL oneself, *and* has MIT Kerberos, *and*
> enables the Kerberos options, *and* has all ciphersuites (or at least
> the Kerberos ciphersuites) specified in your application's
> configuration, then you might be affected.  But that has nothing to
> do with FreeBSD.
> Thus, answering your question again:
> 
>   Isn't FreeBSD vulnerable to the second "Out-of-bounds read affects
>   Kerberos ciphersuites" security problem?
> 
> No, FreeBSD is not.

Thank you again for solely correct answer.

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