[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#478191: Bug#478191: Bug#478191: Acknowledgement (/usr/bin/gnutls-cli: Fatal error: Internal error in memory allocation.)

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:03:37AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >> Does the server by any chance have a very large set of known CAs?
> >
> > Not that I am aware of.
> 
> It does, and it may be useful to investigate why this happens.  Could it
> be a change in the ca-certificate package?  It is quite wasteful to send
> a list of this many trusted CA certificates.  Perhaps it reflects the
> ca-certificate trust setting: if you click in that you trust all CAs in
> the entire world, exim/gnutls may use that.  But I'm not that familiar
> with how trusted CA handling works in debian.

I cross-checked that: On both the real-life system and the test
virtual machine it helps to dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates and to
deselect all CAs from the trusted list. If one selects all CAs again,
the error comes back.

So I guess that your analysis is correct.

Greetings
Marc

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