FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl

[Colin Percival]

Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
>> Note that any statically linked applications that are not part of the
>> base system (i.e. from the Ports Collection or other 3rd-party sources)
>> must be recompiled.
> 
> Ok, is there any way to list installed ports which are statically linked
> against OpenSSL?

There isn't any particularly good approach, unfortunately.  I think I'd
probably use a combination of find(1), file(1), and fgrep(1) to find any
executable files (via find) which are statically linked (using file) and
which contain the string "OpenSSL" (using fgrep).

Colin Percival