retitle 428150 -msse2 in libcrypto++ makes programs SIGILL in Pentium II
reassign 428150 libcrypto++6 5.5-2
tags 428150 - moreinfo unreproducible
severity 428150 grave
thanks
Hello Jens.
If you have a look at #428150, you'll see that some users are
experiencing amule instantly dying on startup with "Illegal
instructions". In the end, this is confirmed to be an issue with
libcrypto++ and it being compiled with -msse2.
This flag should not be used unless the program using it is prepared to
fall back to other code if the processor does not support these
optimizations, which I don't think is the case for libcrypto++ (but I
could be wrong, of course).
Please prepare an upload of the package taking care of this issue. As I
had to prepare test packages without -msse2 for the reporter of the bug
to test, I made them suitable for an NMU, so let me know if you'd like
me to upload those. Also, please use urgency=high, since this version
recently migrated to testing.
Thanks in advance,
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