Paul Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, that is a reasonable expectation. I certainly had it in my head when I 
> rebuilt Sendmail+TLS after heartbleed, but I didn't think of checking it.

Been there :-) Fortunately, sendmail 'does the right thing'!

> It would be good to add such options to as many ports as possible if it can 
> be done cleanly.

This is more for ports@ than security@, but isn't mixing of 2 different 
versions potentially
problematic? I have noticed one port that links against base, but uses libcurl 
which links
against ports, so there is a version conflict there right away.

I'd expect that some magic would need to be done in the bsd.ports.Mk files, as 
you can't
necessarily tell from just scanning the port template.

> Also, note that this is not bashing on OpenSSL: given their new significant 
> funding, I would certainly expect the OpenSSL project to be 
> finding-and-fixing Heartbleed-level bugs repeatedly in the coming years. It 
> is basically impossible to fix such a bug without bad actors being able to 
> determine and exploit some of the fixes in unpatched systems.

Ditto. My concern is more general, and aligned to the POLA principle!

Cheers,
Jamie

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