[SM-Discuss] OpenSSL Security announcement

Eric Sandall sandalle at hellhound.homeip.net
Wed Jul 31 12:21:03 EDT 2002


Eric Womack said:
> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 12:49 am, Eric Sandall wrote:
>> Robin said:
>> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:50:38PM -0700, Adam Clark wrote:
>> >> There's a potential root exploit in OpenSSL.  I've updated the
>> devel grimoire's version of the OpenSSL spell, and it should be
>> available within an hour or two of this post.
>> >
>> > OpenSSL compiles with -m486, and this causes a warning to use
>> -mi486. Why is it trying to use 486 optimisation, I'd like
>> encryption routines to be athlon optimised?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Robin <robin at kallisti.2y.net>                 JabberID:
>>
>> Have you setup your machine architecture/optimizations with the
>> 'sorcery' tool?  Of course, 486 is not an option in the sorcery
>> menu...did you edit any files in /etc/sorcery?
>>
>> -One of Three
>
> Nope, and I get that also.
>
> I notice in the BUILD that the line:
>
> $OPTS                    &&
>
> is missing.  Could that be causing the optimizations not be passed?
>
> Eric Womack

Might be.  Robin, you should try adding $OPTS                     && and
see if that fixes it.

-One of Three

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