Digging deeper (thanks Andrew P) the instability seems to stem from the OpenSSL patch for RSA blinding. Some pertinent information from Debian Security Advisory DSA 288-1:
"Unfortunately, RSA blinding is not thread-safe and will cause failures for programs that use threads and OpenSSL such as stunnel. However, since the proposed fix would change the binary interface (ABI), programs that are dynamically linked against OpenSSL won't run anymore. This is a dilemma we can't solve. You will have to decide whether you want the security update which is not thread-safe and recompile all applications that apparently fail after the upgrade, or fetch the additional source packages at the end of this advisory, recompile it and use a thread-safe OpenSSL library again, but also recompile all applications that make use of it (such as apache-ssl, mod_ssl, ssh etc.). However, since only very few packages use threads and link against the OpenSSL library most users will be able to use packages from this update without any problems." On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:14:53PM -0600, Andrew Spencer wrote: > The system is: > Debian 3.0 > OpenSSL 0.9.6c-2 -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
