FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl

[jimmy at inet-solutions.be]

Quoting FreeBSD Security Advisories <security-advisories at freebsd.org>:

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> FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl                                    Security Advisory
>                                                           The FreeBSD Project
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> c) Recompile the operating system as described in
> <URL:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >.

Is there any reason why one would need to compile the whole operating system?
I can understand that static linked apps need to be recompiled, but which
are there actually any at all (and linked against openssl)?

Kind regards,
Jimmy Scott

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