Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-17 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 16.11.2006 at 21:50 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:25:00PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > >to which the machine is put. Kernel bugs are normally only > >exploitable by local users; SSL bugs are most likely to be > >exploitable remotely. If > > Only partly true

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:25:00PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: to which the machine is put. Kernel bugs are normally only exploitable by local users; SSL bugs are most likely to be exploitable remotely. If Only partly true, I think. If you have a server application like apache, which has a bug

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 16.11.2006 at 12:08 -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > I had a strong *shrug* when i noticed that my stable system > > (originally woody, upgraded to sarge without kernel change) still > > had > ^^^ > If you are running Debian-p

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
; OpenSSL version 0.9.7e installed, despite a dayly dist-upgrade. > > After looking at debian's sarge repository, i saw that the most up to > date package is 0.9.7e-3sarge4, which i have (0.9.7 dates back from > 2004). My question is, why on earth don't we have a newer ve

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Nicolas Pillot
2006/11/15, Nicolas Pillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I though that all the security fixes were included into sarge, am i wrong ? If someone could give me some details, i'd be quite happy to learn :-) After some research, it looks like the debian patch, named [openssl_0.9.7e-3sarge4.diff.gz] has a mo

OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-15 Thread Nicolas Pillot
I had a strong *shrug* when i noticed that my stable system (originally woody, upgraded to sarge without kernel change) still had OpenSSL version 0.9.7e installed, despite a dayly dist-upgrade. After looking at debian's sarge repository, i saw that the most up to date package is 0.9.7e-3s