Weimer,

Thanks for your feedback. 
We will check & evaluate the relative routines. 


Best Regards & Thanks,
LONG, Qin

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fwei...@redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:37 PM
To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [edk2] Use of d2i_*_bio functions from OpenSSL

On 10/25/2012 04:37 AM, Long, Qin wrote:

> Thank you for this suggestion. Could you help to provide more information 
> about this stability comparison (d2i_*_bio vs d2i_*) for our evaluation?

To my knowledge, this is not documented anywhere.  This is based on feedback I 
received when I reported issues in the *_bio functions to the OpenSSL 
developers.  (I no longer have access to these communications, I'm afraid.)

> We ever noticed one security vulnerability issue in OpenSSL ASN1 BIO 
> (http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20120419.txt), and that's why EDKII 
> OpenSSL version was updated to 0.9.8w.

You would have avoided this vulnerability if you've used the other functions. 
8-)

--
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team

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