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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2019-07-25 12:21:33 +0200
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2019-07-25 18:58:35 +0200
commitd333ebaf9c77332754a9d5e111e2f53e1de54fdd (patch)
treec3e6dedf493685f8944f024f9eafe1d5f1d887c1 /CHANGES
parent0bc650d58a58a8b4af97639b952eac3558bb982e (diff)
Document issue with default installation paths on diverse Windows targets
For all config targets (except VMS, because it has a completely different set of scripts), '/usr/local/ssl' is the default prefix for installation of programs and libraries, as well as the path for OpenSSL run-time configuration. For programs built to run in a Windows environment, this default is unsafe, and the user should set a different prefix. This has been hinted at in some documentation but not all, and the danger of leaving the default as is hasn't been documented at all. This change documents the issue as a caveat lector, and all configuration examples now include an example --prefix. CVE-2019-1552 Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9456)
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Changes between 1.0.2s and 1.0.2t [xx XXX xxxx]
- *)
+ *) Document issue with installation paths in diverse Windows builds
+
+ '/usr/local/ssl' is an unsafe prefix for location to install OpenSSL
+ binaries and run-time config file.
+ (CVE-2019-1552)
+ [Richard Levitte]
Changes between 1.0.2r and 1.0.2s [28 May 2019]