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Re: OpenSSL X.509 Email Address 4-byte Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3602), X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow (CVE-2022-3786)


From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 22:53:58 -0400

Alpine Linux switched to LibreSSL for a while, but then switched back
to OpenSSL. (LibreSSL is still packaged separately)

Alex

On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:53 PM Demi Marie Obenour
<demi () invisiblethingslab com> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 09:52:59PM +0100, Erin Shepherd wrote:
LibreTLS does not track the OpenSSL API, so increasingly software does not build with it (it's not possible to 
support both LibreSSL and a supported version of OpenSSL without #ifdef hell)

Has software not from OpenBSD considered switching to LibreSSL outright?
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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab



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