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Re: DSA 2896-2 openssl - Apache 2 not detected as service to restart by postinst?



Hi Frederik,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:01:37PM +0000, Fredrik Jonson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After upgrading the packages in DSA 2896-2 (openssl security update),
> the second version, 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6, that detects services to restart, I
> noted that the postist script didn't suggest that I should restart
> apache2.
> 
> As far as I can tell apache2 (apache2.2-bin) depends on libssl1.0.0 and
> could be affected by CVE-2014-0160. Correct?
> 
> I note that the postinst script in libssl1.0.0 searches for the virtual
> package apache2-common which is not installed on my servers.
> 
> Is this a bug in the postinst script, or is apache2 not affected, or is
> it a user error to not have the virtual package installed?
> 
> BTW, thanks to all involved in Debian's rapid response to this CVE!

Yes this is unfortunately a bug in that part of the libssl1.0.0
postinst! apache2 is also affected and should be restarted after the
openssl update.

Salvatore

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