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Date:      Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:13:40 +0300
From:      Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>
To:        "H. Ingow" <hingow@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SSL appears to be broken in 8-STABLE/RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20091219111339.GH43547@mdounin.ru>
In-Reply-To: <f7206c210912190058u36222a04ge474279af10c9990@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f7206c210912190058u36222a04ge474279af10c9990@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello!

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 09:58:49AM +0100, H. Ingow wrote:

[...]

> Please try to compile your application against the version of openssl
> available in the ports tree.
> 
> As you already mentioned (SA-09:15) breaks renegotiation with base system's
> openssl by fixing
> a security issue ( it actually does).
> 
> Prerequisite for the following is, of course, to install
> /usr/ports/security/openssl which will give you
> openssl 0.9.8l . (You do not necessarily have to remove the base openssl)

OpenSSL 0.9.8l has renegotiation disabled too, this won't help.

The only difference is that 0.9.8l has some means to re-enable 
legacy renegotiation which may be utilized by applications which 
are aware of the problem.

Maxim Dounin



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