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Re: [OpenPKG-SA-2003.042] OpenPKG Security Advisory (openssh)

From: Ralf S. Engelschall (rseengelschall.com)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 01:49:27 CDT

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003, Damien Miller wrote:

> > vulnerable. OpenPKG installations are only affected if the package was
> > built with option "with_pam" set to "yes" -- which is not the default.
>
> Incorrect. You mean "--with-pam" in ./configure (not default) or "UsePam
> yes" (default, before 3.7.1p2) in sshd_config.
>
> Neither of these options is called "use_pam".

Be careful, our advisory talks about the OpenPKG _package_ option
"with_pam", not the GNU autoconf option "--with-pam" of the contained
OpenSSH vendor source. OpenPKG source RPM packages provide "with_xxx"
options which can be set to "yes" or "no" on the command line during
package build ("rpm --rebuild --define 'with_pam yes' openssh*.src.rpm")
in order to build variants of binary RPMs.

If you look at http://cvs.openpkg.org/openpkg-src/openssh/openssh.spec,
you see that in the OpenSSH case the OpenPKG option "with_pam yes" is
mapped onto --with-pam on the GNU autoconf command line later.

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rseengelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com