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Security: CVE-2010-3864 Security: http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20101116.txt
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* System libcrypto.dylib and libssl.dylib are used by system ld on MacOS X.
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NOTE: The problem described here only applies when OpenSSL isn't built
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with shared library support (i.e. without the "shared" configuration
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option). If you build with shared library support, you will have no
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problems as long as you set up DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH properly at all times.
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This is really a misfeature in ld, which seems to look for .dylib libraries
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along the whole library path before it bothers looking for .a libraries. This
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means that -L switches won't matter unless OpenSSL is built with shared
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library support.
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The workaround may be to change the following lines in apps/Makefile and
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test/Makefile:
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LIBCRYPTO=-L.. -lcrypto
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LIBSSL=-L.. -lssl
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to:
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LIBCRYPTO=../libcrypto.a
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LIBSSL=../libssl.a
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It's possible that something similar is needed for shared library support
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as well. That hasn't been well tested yet.
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Another solution that many seem to recommend is to move the libraries
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/usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.dylib, /usr/lib/libssl.0.9.dylib to a different
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directory, build and install OpenSSL and anything that depends on your
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build, then move libcrypto.0.9.dylib and libssl.0.9.dylib back to their
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original places. Note that the version numbers on those two libraries
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may differ on your machine.
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As long as Apple doesn't fix the problem with ld, this problem building
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OpenSSL will remain as is. Well, the problem was addressed in 0.9.8f by
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passing -Wl,-search_paths_first, but it's unknown if the flag was
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supported from the initial MacOS X release.
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* Parallell make leads to errors
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While running tests, running a parallell make is a bad idea. Many test
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scripts use the same name for output and input files, which means different
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will interfere with each other and lead to test failure.
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The solution is simple for now: don't run parallell make when testing.
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* Bugs in gcc triggered
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- According to a problem report, there are bugs in gcc 3.0 that are
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triggered by some of the code in OpenSSL, more specifically in
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PEM_get_EVP_CIPHER_INFO(). The triggering code is the following:
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header+=11;
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if (*header != '4') return(0); header++;
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if (*header != ',') return(0); header++;
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What happens is that gcc might optimize a little too agressively, and
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you end up with an extra incrementation when *header != '4'.
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We recommend that you upgrade gcc to as high a 3.x version as you can.
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- According to multiple problem reports, some of our message digest
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implementations trigger bug[s] in code optimizer in gcc 3.3 for sparc64
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and gcc 2.96 for ppc. Former fails to complete RIPEMD160 test, while
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latter - SHA one.
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The recomendation is to upgrade your compiler. This naturally applies to
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other similar cases.
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- There is a subtle Solaris x86-specific gcc run-time environment bug, which
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"falls between" OpenSSL [0.9.8 and later], Solaris ld and GCC. The bug
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manifests itself as Segmentation Fault upon early application start-up.
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The problem can be worked around by patching the environment according to
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http://www.openssl.org/~appro/values.c.
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* solaris64-sparcv9-cc SHA-1 performance with WorkShop 6 compiler.
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As subject suggests SHA-1 might perform poorly (4 times slower)
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if compiled with WorkShop 6 compiler and -xarch=v9. The cause for
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this seems to be the fact that compiler emits multiplication to
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perform shift operations:-( To work the problem around configure
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with './Configure solaris64-sparcv9-cc -DMD32_REG_T=int'.
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* Problems with hp-parisc2-cc target when used with "no-asm" flag
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When using the hp-parisc2-cc target, wrong bignum code is generated.
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This is due to the SIXTY_FOUR_BIT build being compiled with the +O3
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aggressive optimization.
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The problem manifests itself by the BN_kronecker test hanging in an
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endless loop. Reason: the BN_kronecker test calls BN_generate_prime()
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which itself hangs. The reason could be tracked down to the bn_mul_comba8()
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function in bn_asm.c. At some occasions the higher 32bit value of r[7]
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is off by 1 (meaning: calculated=shouldbe+1). Further analysis failed,
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as no debugger support possible at +O3 and additional fprintf()'s
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introduced fixed the bug, therefore it is most likely a bug in the
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optimizer.
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The bug was found in the BN_kronecker test but may also lead to
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failures in other parts of the code.
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(See Ticket #426.)
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Workaround: modify the target to +O2 when building with no-asm.
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* Problems building shared libraries on SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.6
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with gcc 2.95.3
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The symptoms appear when running the test suite, more specifically
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test/ectest, with the following result:
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OSSL_LIBPATH="`cd ..; pwd`"; LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"; DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"; SHLIB_PATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$SHLIB_PATH"; LIBPATH="$OSSL_LIBPATH:$LIBPATH"; if [ "debug-sco5-gcc" = "Cygwin" ]; then PATH="${LIBPATH}:$PATH"; fi; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH SHLIB_PATH LIBPATH PATH; ./ectest
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ectest.c:186: ABORT
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The cause of the problem seems to be that isxdigit(), called from
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BN_hex2bn(), returns 0 on a perfectly legitimate hex digit. Further
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investigation shows that any of the isxxx() macros return 0 on any
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input. A direct look in the information array that the isxxx() use,
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called __ctype, shows that it contains all zeroes...
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Taking a look at the newly created libcrypto.so with nm, one can see
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that the variable __ctype is defined in libcrypto's .bss (which
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explains why it is filled with zeroes):
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$ nm -Pg libcrypto.so | grep __ctype
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__ctype B 0011659c
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__ctype2 U
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Curiously, __ctype2 is undefined, in spite of being declared in
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/usr/include/ctype.h in exactly the same way as __ctype.
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Any information helping to solve this issue would be deeply
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appreciated.
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NOTE: building non-shared doesn't come with this problem.
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* ULTRIX build fails with shell errors, such as "bad substitution"
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and "test: argument expected"
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The problem is caused by ULTRIX /bin/sh supporting only original
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Bourne shell syntax/semantics, and the trouble is that the vast
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majority is so accustomed to more modern syntax, that very few
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people [if any] would recognize the ancient syntax even as valid.
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This inevitably results in non-trivial scripts breaking on ULTRIX,
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and OpenSSL isn't an exclusion. Fortunately there is workaround,
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hire /bin/ksh to do the job /bin/sh fails to do.
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1. Trick make(1) to use /bin/ksh by setting up following environ-
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ment variables *prior* you execute ./Configure and make:
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PROG_ENV=POSIX
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MAKESHELL=/bin/ksh
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export PROG_ENV MAKESHELL
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or if your shell is csh-compatible:
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setenv PROG_ENV POSIX
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setenv MAKESHELL /bin/ksh
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2. Trick /bin/sh to use alternative expression evaluator. Create
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following 'test' script for example in /tmp:
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#!/bin/ksh
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${0##*/} "$@"
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Then 'chmod a+x /tmp/test; ln /tmp/test /tmp/[' and *prepend*
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your $PATH with chosen location, e.g. PATH=/tmp:$PATH. Alter-
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natively just replace system /bin/test and /bin/[ with the
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above script.
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* hpux64-ia64-cc fails blowfish test.
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Compiler bug, presumably at particular patch level. It should be noted
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that same compiler generates correct 32-bit code, a.k.a. hpux-ia64-cc
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target. Drop optimization level to +O2 when compiling 64-bit bf_skey.o.
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* no-engines generates errors.
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Unfortunately, the 'no-engines' configuration option currently doesn't
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work properly. Use 'no-hw' and you'll will at least get no hardware
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support. We'll see how we fix that on OpenSSL versions past 0.9.8.
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* 'make test' fails in BN_sqr [commonly with "error 139" denoting SIGSEGV]
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if elder GNU binutils were deployed to link shared libcrypto.so.
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As subject suggests the failure is caused by a bug in elder binutils,
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either as or ld, and was observed on FreeBSD and Linux. There are two
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options. First is naturally to upgrade binutils, the second one - to
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reconfigure with additional no-sse2 [or 386] option passed to ./config.
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* If configured with ./config no-dso, toolkit still gets linked with -ldl,
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which most notably poses a problem when linking with dietlibc.
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We don't have framework to associate -ldl with no-dso, therefore the only
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way is to edit Makefile right after ./config no-dso and remove -ldl from
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EX_LIBS line.
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