[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#895035: osc: crashes with memory corruption when using new libssl1.1

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 07:26:02PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2018-05-02 18:34:35 [+0200], Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 05:19:20PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > * https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5967
> > > 
> > >   """
> > >   Commit d316cdc introduced some extra
> > >   checks into the session-cache update procedure, intended to prevent
> > >   the caching of sessions whose resumption would lead to a handshake
> > >   failure, since if the server is authenticating the client, there needs to
> > >   be an application-set "session id context" to match up to the authentication
> > >   context. While that change is effective for its stated purpose, there
> > >   was also some collatoral damage introduced along with the fix -- clients
> > >   that set SSL_VERIFY_PEER are not expected to set an sid_ctx, and so
> > >   their usage of session caching was erroneously denied.
> > > 
> > >   Fix the scope of the original commit by limiting it to only acting
> > >   when the SSL is a server SSL.
> > >   """
> > 
> > Is it urgunt to fix this in testing/unstable?
> 
> If he is sure that this fixes his issue then I don't mind doing an
> upload. I can even prepare a 1.1.0h-2 with this patch included.
> [unless upstream plans a release soon]

There are no plans, currently I think 1.1.1 will be the next release.


Kurt