Bug 567726 – app-emulation/vmware-workstation-11.1.2.2780323*: conflict with libcurl and libssl

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Kevin Bryan 2015-12-07 16:49:41 UTC]

Installed:
vmware-workstation-11.1.2.2780323-r3 (from overlay, although I expect it affects the main tree as well)
curl-7.45.0
openssl-1.0.2d

Problem:
vmware-workstation loads it's version of libssl from /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.1.0.1/libssl.so.1.0.1
But then also loads /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4 which loads /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0 (which is really a 1.0.2d version).

This causes a vmware to crash when attempting to do certain operations with a vcenter or esxi host.

The crash stack trace shows libcurl calling a function in libssl.so.1.0.1 (vmware provided version).

I was able to fix the problem locally by creating symlinks:
/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libssl.so.1.0.1/libssl.so.1.0.1 -> /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0
/opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.1/libcrypto.so.1.0.1 -> /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jeremy Drake 2015-12-16 06:36:55 UTC]

I just ran into this too.  However, I could not get the workaround of replacing the shipped libssl and libcrypto with symlinks to the system versions to work without also creating symlinks for libssl.so.1.0.1 and libcrypto.so.1.0.1 in /usr/lib64 pointing to their respective .1.0.0 versions.

[Comment 2 Fabio Rossi 2016-01-18 23:59:39 UTC]

I should have fixed this issue for latest version 12 in my repo (https://github.com/efferre79/vmware), if you wanna try look for version 12.1.0.3272444-r1

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2016-03-19 17:38:14 UTC]

(In reply to Fabio Rossi from comment #2)
> I should have fixed this issue for latest version 12 in my repo
> (https://github.com/efferre79/vmware), if you wanna try look for version
> 12.1.0.3272444-r1

That is now also in the main tree. Please test...