[Klug-general] SSL bug

George Prowse cokehabit at gmail.com
Thu May 22 12:46:27 BST 2008


J D Freeman wrote:

> Yes, it was a bug, yes its a pain. But Nearly every distro suffers from
> this sort of thing from time to time. Debian have been very open, very
> honest, and very quick to fix it.

Very open and honest only go so far, it was a major cock-up that was 
purely debian's fault.

The bug in question was caused by the removal of the following line of 
code from md_rand.c

	MD_Update(&m,buf,j);
	[ .. ]
	MD_Update(&m,buf,j); /* purify complains */




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