[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#462588: (ITS#5341) Invalid TLSCipherSuite causes hang

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:31:43AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:09 AM -0800 Steve Langasek 
> <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> > Anyway, the documented syntax for TLSCipherSuite is "$cipher1:$cipher2",
> > not "$cipher1 $cipher2"; but setting such values gives me a hang on
> > startup (which should be investigated).

> Filed upstream:

> <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/its/index.cgi?findid=5341>

Sorry, the description of this ITS is inverted.  It's *valid* ciphersuite
values (i.e., "cipher1:cipher2") that cause the hang; invalid
space-separated values are merely truncated after the first cipher in the
list, which doesn't cause a hang, it just prevents the cipher list from
being useful.

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