SSL appears to be broken in 8-STABLE/RELEASE

Sean sean at gothic.net.au
Sat Dec 19 13:21:00 UTC 2009


On 19/12/2009, at 11:29 PM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> 
> No, my previous suggestion is unrelated.
> 
> Additionally, to re-enable renegotiation in openssl 0.9.8l you 
> need an application which is able to set 
> SSL3_FLAGS_ALLOW_UNSAFE_LEGACY_RENEGOTIATION in s->s3->flags.  I 
> haven't seen any yet, and google codesearch is able 
> to find only one such app (proftpd).
> 

Unrelated to the issue at hand with Apache, but tor is also broken by it, as it renegotiates the connection.

tor-devel using openssl 0.9.8l sets the flag, and always used renegotiate safely (ie. by disregarding anything which occured prior to the renegotiation) which Apache doesn't.



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