[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#327625: gnutls

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Mon Oct 22 08:50:04 UTC 2007


> **** gnutls_record_recv: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
> ---> ABOR
> ---- Closing aborted data socket
> ---- Closing control socket
> Fatal error: gnutls_record_recv: A TLS packet with unexpected length was 
received.

I doesn't say when this happens. If this is at the point of the server 
termination of the connection then it's not that critical. 
It is common for several servers to non-properly terminate the TLS connection 
using TCP FIN. This is against the TLS specs but it is common to occur.

There is no way for gnutls to fix this, since if we silent this error we will 
be vulnerable to premature termination attacks.

regards,
Nikos





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