Bug#334501: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#334501: libcryto.so.0.9.8 cause a SIGFAULT in ssh

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Wed Oct 19 20:33:09 UTC 2005


On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 07:05:04PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> This seems to be assembler that is just wrong.  I have no idea
> how to fix this yet.  The 0.9.7 version also didn't seem to be
> used on amd64.

I found what the real problem is.  For debian-amd64 we define
RC4_CHAR, which means RC4_INT becomes an unsigned char instead
of an int.  The assembler code assumes that it's an int.

Of course we can't change this, since this would be an ABI
change.


Kurt





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