BSD Ports

Vulnerable: version 20220419 is affected by 2 known vulnerabilities. See below.

wip/boringssl 20220419 NetBSD

Fork of OpenSSL designed to meet Google's needs

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc-wip
Maintainer
[email protected]
License
openssl
Categories
wip, security

Description

BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs.

Although BoringSSL is an open source project, it is not intended for general use, as OpenSSL is. We don't recommend that third parties depend upon it. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

Programs ship their own copies of BoringSSL when they use it and we update everything as needed when deciding to make API changes. This allows us to mostly avoid compromises in the name of compatibility. It works for us, but it may not work for you.

BoringSSL arose because Google used OpenSSL for many years in various ways and, over time, built up a large number of patches that were maintained while tracking upstream OpenSSL. As Google's product portfolio became more complex, more copies of OpenSSL sprung up and the effort involved in maintaining all these patches in multiple places was growing steadily.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 20260322, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
NetBSDwip/boringssl202204192 known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDsecurity/boringssl by name0.20261020.0none known-[email protected]2026-10-21
OpenBSDsecurity/boringssl/head by name20260322 newestno data-Bob Beck <[email protected]>, Theo Buehler <[email protected]>-
DragonFlysecurity/boringssl by name0.0.0.0.2024.06.24.01_1none known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDsecurity/boringssl by name0.20260813.0_2no data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDsecurity/boringssl by name0.20260813.0_2no data-[email protected]-

Compare across BSDs

Install

From pkgsrc-wip (no binary package):

cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/boringssl && make install clean

Dependencies

No port depends on this one.

Known vulnerabilities 2