[Touch-packages] [Bug 1763870] Re: openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

2019-07-07 Thread Nicola Tuveri
Is there anything I can do to accelerate the resolution of this bug for
Xenial and Bionic?

I already posted a proposed solution for the specific symbol that I am
missing, but in theory fixing this should be as easy as running whatever
script the package mantainers used in the first place to generate the
file debian/patches/version-script.patch for this package.

** Also affects: openssl1.0 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
   Status: New

** No longer affects: openssl1.0 (Ubuntu Xenial)

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Title:
  openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API
  symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl1.0 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in openssl source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in openssl package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I'm developing an ENGINE for OpenSSL, and close to release, I noticed
  that in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and in Debian oldstable-backports the build fails 
with the following output:

  ```
  /usr/bin/cc  -fPIC -g  -shared -Wl,-soname,liblibsuola.so -o liblibsuola.so 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola_keypair.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/debug/debug.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/X25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/ed25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_md_identity_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/ossl_compat.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_err.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_objects.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/base.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/curve25519.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/ed25519.c.o -lssl -lcrypto 
/opt/libsodium-stable/lib/libsodium.so -Wl,-z,defs 
-Wl,-rpath,/opt/libsodium-stable/lib:
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o: In function 
`suola_register_asn1_meth':
  /usr/local/src/libsuola/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c:505: undefined reference to 
`EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item'
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[2]: *** [liblibsuola.so] Error 1
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/build.make:412: recipe for target 'liblibsuola.so' failed
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/libsuola/build'
  make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/suola.dir/all] Error 2
  make: *** [all] Error 2
  ```

  This does not happen linking against the same exact release of openssl
  compiled from source on the same system.

  I then learned that one of the patches applied by Debian and inherited
  also by Ubuntu has the goal of versioning library symbols to avoid
  conflicts.

  Unfortunately said patch is not updated regularly with each release of
  OpenSSL, resulting, like in my case, in symbols available in the public
  header files but masked through versioning in the shared library binary.

  The attached patch fixes my need by adding `EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item` to
  the list, but you might consider an internal review of your release
  process to make sure that the list of symbols is updated whenever a new
  upstream releases makes new functions publicly available.

  
  I believe this bug is important, as it stops everyone using official
  packages from using third-party ENGINEs that require to use that
  function to set special handling of ASN.1 format, which basically
  includes every ENGINE that would add support for cryptosystems that
  upstream OpenSSL does not support (defying the purpose of using some
  ENGINEs).

  The patch I propose covers my use case, but basically the package as is 
results
  unusable to any user of any application that may require functions
  available in the public headers but accidentally masked in the symbol
  versioning step.

  The ideal outcome of fixing this issue would consist in making the
  versioning patch dynamic, checking when symbols are added (or removed)
  in newer releases and updating the list accordingly.

  
  You might have the same versioning patch applied in other releases, so it's
  worth tagging this bug also for those to make the handling of the exposed 
symbols consistent.

  Finally I also opened a similar bug against the equivalent Debian 
oldstable-backports package, but I opened an Ubuntu-specific bug report because 
16.04 ships a more recent version of the package and the inherited symbol 
versioning patch has already been modified compared with the original Debian 
one.
  For reference this is the Debian bug report: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895547

  
  -- System information --

  # lsv_release -rd
  Description:Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
  Release:16.04

  # apt-cache policy libssl-dev
  libssl-dev:
Installed: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
Candidate: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
Version table:
   *** 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11 500
  500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1763870] Re: openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

2019-06-13 Thread Nicola Tuveri
Here is a minimal working example to test the issue:
https://gist.github.com/romen/b95e99b3563a8ba4c27d88512c7932ff

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Title:
  openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API
  symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in openssl package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I'm developing an ENGINE for OpenSSL, and close to release, I noticed
  that in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and in Debian oldstable-backports the build fails 
with the following output:

  ```
  /usr/bin/cc  -fPIC -g  -shared -Wl,-soname,liblibsuola.so -o liblibsuola.so 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola_keypair.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/debug/debug.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/X25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/ed25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_md_identity_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/ossl_compat.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_err.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_objects.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/base.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/curve25519.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/ed25519.c.o -lssl -lcrypto 
/opt/libsodium-stable/lib/libsodium.so -Wl,-z,defs 
-Wl,-rpath,/opt/libsodium-stable/lib:
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o: In function 
`suola_register_asn1_meth':
  /usr/local/src/libsuola/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c:505: undefined reference to 
`EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item'
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[2]: *** [liblibsuola.so] Error 1
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/build.make:412: recipe for target 'liblibsuola.so' failed
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/libsuola/build'
  make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/suola.dir/all] Error 2
  make: *** [all] Error 2
  ```

  This does not happen linking against the same exact release of openssl
  compiled from source on the same system.

  I then learned that one of the patches applied by Debian and inherited
  also by Ubuntu has the goal of versioning library symbols to avoid
  conflicts.

  Unfortunately said patch is not updated regularly with each release of
  OpenSSL, resulting, like in my case, in symbols available in the public
  header files but masked through versioning in the shared library binary.

  The attached patch fixes my need by adding `EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item` to
  the list, but you might consider an internal review of your release
  process to make sure that the list of symbols is updated whenever a new
  upstream releases makes new functions publicly available.

  
  I believe this bug is important, as it stops everyone using official
  packages from using third-party ENGINEs that require to use that
  function to set special handling of ASN.1 format, which basically
  includes every ENGINE that would add support for cryptosystems that
  upstream OpenSSL does not support (defying the purpose of using some
  ENGINEs).

  The patch I propose covers my use case, but basically the package as is 
results
  unusable to any user of any application that may require functions
  available in the public headers but accidentally masked in the symbol
  versioning step.

  The ideal outcome of fixing this issue would consist in making the
  versioning patch dynamic, checking when symbols are added (or removed)
  in newer releases and updating the list accordingly.

  
  You might have the same versioning patch applied in other releases, so it's
  worth tagging this bug also for those to make the handling of the exposed 
symbols consistent.

  Finally I also opened a similar bug against the equivalent Debian 
oldstable-backports package, but I opened an Ubuntu-specific bug report because 
16.04 ships a more recent version of the package and the inherited symbol 
versioning patch has already been modified compared with the original Debian 
one.
  For reference this is the Debian bug report: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895547

  
  -- System information --

  # lsv_release -rd
  Description:Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
  Release:16.04

  # apt-cache policy libssl-dev
  libssl-dev:
Installed: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
Candidate: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
Version table:
   *** 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11 500
  500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 
Packages
  500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 
Packages
  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
   1.0.2g-1ubuntu4 500
  500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: libssl-dev 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_6

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1763870] Re: openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

2019-06-13 Thread Nicola Tuveri
I can also further confirm that even on the latest LTS, bionic, the same
problem still exists today when using the latest version of the official
packages `openssl1.0`, `libssl1.0.0`, and `libssl1.0-dev` to have access
OpenSSL 1.0.2.

So I would also formally request to reevaluate the "fixed" status for
Ubuntu releases after xenial that are still offering official packages
for OpenSSL <1.1.0.

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Title:
  openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API
  symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in openssl package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I'm developing an ENGINE for OpenSSL, and close to release, I noticed
  that in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and in Debian oldstable-backports the build fails 
with the following output:

  ```
  /usr/bin/cc  -fPIC -g  -shared -Wl,-soname,liblibsuola.so -o liblibsuola.so 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola_keypair.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/debug/debug.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/X25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/ed25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_md_identity_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/ossl_compat.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_err.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_objects.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/base.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/curve25519.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/ed25519.c.o -lssl -lcrypto 
/opt/libsodium-stable/lib/libsodium.so -Wl,-z,defs 
-Wl,-rpath,/opt/libsodium-stable/lib:
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o: In function 
`suola_register_asn1_meth':
  /usr/local/src/libsuola/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c:505: undefined reference to 
`EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item'
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[2]: *** [liblibsuola.so] Error 1
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/build.make:412: recipe for target 'liblibsuola.so' failed
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/libsuola/build'
  make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/suola.dir/all] Error 2
  make: *** [all] Error 2
  ```

  This does not happen linking against the same exact release of openssl
  compiled from source on the same system.

  I then learned that one of the patches applied by Debian and inherited
  also by Ubuntu has the goal of versioning library symbols to avoid
  conflicts.

  Unfortunately said patch is not updated regularly with each release of
  OpenSSL, resulting, like in my case, in symbols available in the public
  header files but masked through versioning in the shared library binary.

  The attached patch fixes my need by adding `EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item` to
  the list, but you might consider an internal review of your release
  process to make sure that the list of symbols is updated whenever a new
  upstream releases makes new functions publicly available.

  
  I believe this bug is important, as it stops everyone using official
  packages from using third-party ENGINEs that require to use that
  function to set special handling of ASN.1 format, which basically
  includes every ENGINE that would add support for cryptosystems that
  upstream OpenSSL does not support (defying the purpose of using some
  ENGINEs).

  The patch I propose covers my use case, but basically the package as is 
results
  unusable to any user of any application that may require functions
  available in the public headers but accidentally masked in the symbol
  versioning step.

  The ideal outcome of fixing this issue would consist in making the
  versioning patch dynamic, checking when symbols are added (or removed)
  in newer releases and updating the list accordingly.

  
  You might have the same versioning patch applied in other releases, so it's
  worth tagging this bug also for those to make the handling of the exposed 
symbols consistent.

  Finally I also opened a similar bug against the equivalent Debian 
oldstable-backports package, but I opened an Ubuntu-specific bug report because 
16.04 ships a more recent version of the package and the inherited symbol 
versioning patch has already been modified compared with the original Debian 
one.
  For reference this is the Debian bug report: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895547

  
  -- System information --

  # lsv_release -rd
  Description:Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
  Release:16.04

  # apt-cache policy libssl-dev
  libssl-dev:
Installed: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
Candidate: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
Version table:
   *** 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11 500
  500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 
Packages
  500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 
Packages
  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
   1.0.2g-1ubu

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1763870] Re: openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

2019-06-13 Thread Nicola Tuveri
I can confirm that while this is "fixed" by updating to a newer release
of Ubuntu (or Debian, as can be read in the Debian bug tracker), this
problem is still present in Xenial.

The reason it is fixed in newer releases is that they ship OpenSSL >=
1.1.0 where upstream takes care of symbol versioning for the public
symbols in the library.

Xenial uses OpenSSL 1.0.2, and the package maintainers have a custom
script to tag known symbols in the library with a version number, and
mask all the symbols not explicitly whitelisted in the script.

As reported more than 1 year ago, this script has not been properly
maintained, so in Xenial, today, there are still symbols like
`EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item` that are exposed to application developers as
part of the public API in the headers contained in the latest package
version for libssl-dev, but that are not linkable because they have
never been whitelisted by the package maintainers.

In Debian this is now considered Fixed, as the currently supported
releases all ship OpenSSL >=1.1.0, but Ubuntu Xenial is supposed to be
supported until April 2021.

What can I do to get some attention to this issue and fix the problem in
Xenial?

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Title:
  openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API
  symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

Status in openssl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in openssl source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in openssl package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I'm developing an ENGINE for OpenSSL, and close to release, I noticed
  that in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and in Debian oldstable-backports the build fails 
with the following output:

  ```
  /usr/bin/cc  -fPIC -g  -shared -Wl,-soname,liblibsuola.so -o liblibsuola.so 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola_keypair.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/debug/debug.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/X25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/ed25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_md_identity_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/ossl_compat.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_err.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_objects.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/base.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/curve25519.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/ed25519.c.o -lssl -lcrypto 
/opt/libsodium-stable/lib/libsodium.so -Wl,-z,defs 
-Wl,-rpath,/opt/libsodium-stable/lib:
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o: In function 
`suola_register_asn1_meth':
  /usr/local/src/libsuola/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c:505: undefined reference to 
`EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item'
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make[2]: *** [liblibsuola.so] Error 1
  CMakeFiles/suola.dir/build.make:412: recipe for target 'liblibsuola.so' failed
  make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/libsuola/build'
  make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/suola.dir/all] Error 2
  make: *** [all] Error 2
  ```

  This does not happen linking against the same exact release of openssl
  compiled from source on the same system.

  I then learned that one of the patches applied by Debian and inherited
  also by Ubuntu has the goal of versioning library symbols to avoid
  conflicts.

  Unfortunately said patch is not updated regularly with each release of
  OpenSSL, resulting, like in my case, in symbols available in the public
  header files but masked through versioning in the shared library binary.

  The attached patch fixes my need by adding `EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item` to
  the list, but you might consider an internal review of your release
  process to make sure that the list of symbols is updated whenever a new
  upstream releases makes new functions publicly available.

  
  I believe this bug is important, as it stops everyone using official
  packages from using third-party ENGINEs that require to use that
  function to set special handling of ASN.1 format, which basically
  includes every ENGINE that would add support for cryptosystems that
  upstream OpenSSL does not support (defying the purpose of using some
  ENGINEs).

  The patch I propose covers my use case, but basically the package as is 
results
  unusable to any user of any application that may require functions
  available in the public headers but accidentally masked in the symbol
  versioning step.

  The ideal outcome of fixing this issue would consist in making the
  versioning patch dynamic, checking when symbols are added (or removed)
  in newer releases and updating the list accordingly.

  
  You might have the same versioning patch applied in other releases, so it's
  worth tagging this bug also for those to make the handling of the exposed 
symbols consistent.

  Finally I also opened a similar bug against the equivalent Debian 
oldstable-backports package, but I opened an Ubuntu-sp

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1763870] [NEW] openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

2018-04-13 Thread Nicola Tuveri
Public bug reported:

I'm developing an ENGINE for OpenSSL, and close to release, I noticed
that in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and in Debian oldstable-backports the build fails with 
the following output:

```
/usr/bin/cc  -fPIC -g  -shared -Wl,-soname,liblibsuola.so -o liblibsuola.so 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/suola_keypair.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/debug/debug.c.o CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/X25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/ed25519_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_md_identity_meth.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/ossl_compat.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_err.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/ossl/suola_objects.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/base.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/curve25519.c.o 
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/providers/libsodium/ed25519.c.o -lssl -lcrypto 
/opt/libsodium-stable/lib/libsodium.so -Wl,-z,defs 
-Wl,-rpath,/opt/libsodium-stable/lib:
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c.o: In function 
`suola_register_asn1_meth':
/usr/local/src/libsuola/meths/suola_asn1_meth.c:505: undefined reference to 
`EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [liblibsuola.so] Error 1
CMakeFiles/suola.dir/build.make:412: recipe for target 'liblibsuola.so' failed
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/libsuola/build'
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/suola.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
```

This does not happen linking against the same exact release of openssl
compiled from source on the same system.

I then learned that one of the patches applied by Debian and inherited
also by Ubuntu has the goal of versioning library symbols to avoid
conflicts.

Unfortunately said patch is not updated regularly with each release of
OpenSSL, resulting, like in my case, in symbols available in the public
header files but masked through versioning in the shared library binary.

The attached patch fixes my need by adding `EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item` to
the list, but you might consider an internal review of your release
process to make sure that the list of symbols is updated whenever a new
upstream releases makes new functions publicly available.


I believe this bug is important, as it stops everyone using official
packages from using third-party ENGINEs that require to use that
function to set special handling of ASN.1 format, which basically
includes every ENGINE that would add support for cryptosystems that
upstream OpenSSL does not support (defying the purpose of using some
ENGINEs).

The patch I propose covers my use case, but basically the package as is results
unusable to any user of any application that may require functions
available in the public headers but accidentally masked in the symbol
versioning step.

The ideal outcome of fixing this issue would consist in making the
versioning patch dynamic, checking when symbols are added (or removed)
in newer releases and updating the list accordingly.


You might have the same versioning patch applied in other releases, so it's
worth tagging this bug also for those to make the handling of the exposed 
symbols consistent.

Finally I also opened a similar bug against the equivalent Debian 
oldstable-backports package, but I opened an Ubuntu-specific bug report because 
16.04 ships a more recent version of the package and the inherited symbol 
versioning patch has already been modified compared with the original Debian 
one.
For reference this is the Debian bug report: 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895547


-- System information --

# lsv_release -rd
Description:Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release:16.04

# apt-cache policy libssl-dev
libssl-dev:
  Installed: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
  Candidate: 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libssl-dev 1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.16
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 13 21:10:58 2018
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
SourcePackage: openssl
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: openssl
 Importance: Unknown
 Status: Unknown

** Affects: openssl (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

** Affects: openssl (Debian)
 Importance: Unknown
 Status: Unknown


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug openssl xenial

** Patch added: "Patch for the symbol versioning patch"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1763870/+attachment/5114701/+files/add_EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item.patch

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #