sendmail broken by libssl in current

Paul Hoffman paul.hoffman at vpnc.org
Wed Mar 11 19:01:30 UTC 2015


On Mar 11, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Gregory Shapiro <gshapiro at freebsd.org> wrote:
> First, thank you Philip for jumping on this.  Much appreciated.
> 
>> This wonderful change (cough) to include SSL_OP_TLSEXT_PADDING in 
>> SSL_OP_ALL was addressed in sendmail 8.15.1, which explicitly removes 
>> SSL_OP_TLSEXT_PADDING from the default ClientSSLOptions value if that 
>> #define exists.  I believe Greg is working on importing that to FreeBSD.
> 
> sendmail 8.15.1 is imported into the vendor area but not merged due to an incompatible change that is being moved into a run-time configuration variable in 8.15.2.  Rather than expose the FreeBSD populate to the churn from that change, I am skipping 8.15.1 and will import 8.15.2.
> 
> That being said, I can certainly make the local fix that Philip mention to take care of the padding issue.  Is the new libssl in 11-CURRENT going to be/already been MFC'ed to other branches?

I'm still *really* hesitant for us to be patching OpenSSL for a bug on a middlebox vendor's system that already has a fix.

--Paul Hoffman


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