Serious OpenSSL vulnerability

Dan Thurman dant at cdkkt.com
Thu Apr 10 19:51:44 UTC 2014


On 04/10/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Dan Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> said:
>> 2) I downloaded F18 SRPM file, changed the SPEC file by adding
>>      -DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS to RPM_OPT_FLAGS variable,
>>      then rebuild which compiled with no errors, then removed the
>>      old openssl files (rpm --nodeps -e openssl*), installed the new files
>>      (rpm -ivh *.rpm in RPM directory)
> Don't do it that way!  --nodeps is something you should never use.  You
> could have "rpm -Uvh", or even "yum localinstall".
>
>>      then proceeded to the heartbeat
>>      site and it failed (red)
> Did you restart services (or reboot)?  Under Unix, once a file is
> opened, the reference remains even if it is removed/replaced.  If you
> don't restart Apache, it will still be using the old OpenSSL libraries.
Ok about --nodeps.

So what I did was:
1) yum clean all
2) yum update  (nothing to update)
3) yum reinstall openssl*  (reinstalled and to mitigate any issues 
caused by --nodeps, no issues)
4) yum localinstall openssl*.rpm  (nothing to install) (same as rpm -Uvh)

So I was unable to rpm -Uvh *.rpm/yum localinstall *.rpm  because
yum/rpm detected no difference.  Perhaps I need to change the SPEC
file to a different version, say from 1:1.0.1e-37.fc18 to 1:1.0.1e-38.fc18?
If so, where do I change the version from 37 ->38?



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