Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:14.openssl

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 02:33:59PM +1000, John Marshall wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jun 2014, 13:16 +0000, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:

> > Corrected:

> >                 2014-06-05 12:33:23 UTC (releng/9.2, 9.2-RELEASE-p8)

> > VI.  Correction details

> > Branch/path                                                      Revision
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------

> > releng/9.2/                                                       r267104

> I've just src-upgraded a system and expected to see OpenSSL version
> 0.9.8za at the end of it all.  I checked the patches and the OpenSSL
> version number wasn't touched.  Is this an expected outcome?

>   rwsrv04> uname -v; openssl version
>   FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p8 #0 r267130: Fri Jun  6 12:43:09 AEST 2014...
>   OpenSSL 0.9.8y 5 Feb 2013

>   rwsrv04> ls -l /usr/lib/libssl.so.6
>   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  304808  6 Jun 13:31 /usr/lib/libssl.so.6

> I understand that it was the FreeBSD distribution that was patched and
> not the OpenSSL distribution, but having the operating system and
> applications reporting a "vulnerable" version of OpenSSL isn't
> reassuring to other folks.

Yes, this is expected and common practice.

Perhaps the version number should instead be removed in head given that
it is not updated for security patches anyway.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker
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