Bug#467137: exim4-daemon-heavy: TLS error may start on client : "Internal error in memory allocation"

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 04:37:58PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> Our servers have been suffering from the same error as the bug reporter,
> namely:
> 
> "(gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received."

This is most probably a different issue since here, the client
crashes. GnuTLS gives the same error message for a wide variety of
failures. Please do not attach your issues to a random bug report you
find for that error message, if in doubt, file a new issue.

Sorting out #348046 took three days because of people trying to be
helpful and attaching new, independent issues to a similiary looking
bug report.

Please file a new bug report with your issue so that it doesn't get
lost.

> I have noticed that my laptop, which is running exim4-daemon-light, has
> come up with the following related error:
> 
> TLS error on connection to mail.campbell-lange.net [217.147.82.36]
> (gnutls_handshake): Internal error in memory allocation.

I can reproduce this with gnutls-cli (gnutls-cli crashes as well), and
will file this as a bug against GnuTLS.

> Feel free to send me an email at mail.campbell-lange.net to check this
> error.

I did this multiple times, sorry about the noise.

Please do not reply to this message as it clutters up the history of
#467137 which is most probably a totally independent issue.

Greetings
Marc

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