Binary compatibility problem in OpenSSH from OpenSSL mailing list

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Thu Oct 13 06:30:50 EST 2005


On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Andy Polyakov wrote:

> >>There seems to be a binary compatibility problem with OpenSSL and OpenSSH 
> >>4.2p1. The details can be found at 
> >>http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg41869.html . The 
> >>discussion is closed with pointing a problem in key.c in OpenSSH and 
> >>corresponding thread is at 
> >>http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg41878.html
> >>
> >>fix.
> > 
> > well, it's a bug in the library, and the library should be fixed IMHO.
> 
> Yes, and second url above refers to a patch to address this problem. 
> Internal discussion is going on to swiftly release 0.9.7i. A.

It looks like there is a typo in http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=14514
s/EXP_MAX_MD_SIZE/EVP_MAX_MD_SIZE/


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