Package: ppp Version: 2.4.4b1-1 Severity: important
pppd invokes SHA1_Update() from openssl, which assumes input buffer to be word aligned without explicitly stating so in the documentation. However, some "magic" strings in pppd are not word aligned. This causes pppd to SIGBUS when, for example, ms-chap2 authentication is used on platforms that choke on unaligned memory access, such as sparc. I've reported to ppp developers, but they are unwilling to fix this problem on their side. See: http://ppp.samba.org/cgi-bin/ppp-bugs/resolved?id=1391 I've also sent an e-mail to openssl-users mailing list, still trying to work out a satisfactory solution. I'm filing this bug report to give Debian ppp package maintainer a head-up on this problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-sparc64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages ppp depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam-modules 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-3.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpcap0.8 0.9.4-1 System interface for user-level pa ii makedev 2.3.1-81 creates device files in /dev ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii procps 1:3.2.6-2.2 /proc file system utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime ppp recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]