Re: More SSL crash woes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: More SSL crash woes
Date
Msg-id 20080408190934.GM9062@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to More SSL crash woes  (Jeff Amiel <jamiel@istreamimaging.com>)
List pgsql-general
Jeff Amiel wrote:

> Stack trace looks eerily familiar:
>
> Core was generated by `/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /db'.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> #0  0xfee8ec23 in sk_value () from /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
>
> *grumble*

Did you try installing the OpenSSL with debugging symbols and getting a
better stack trace?  If this is a bug in OpenSSL I'm sure they'd like to
hear it.

Some random browsing shows that sk_value is part of a stack
implementation in OpenSSL which has been there for many years.
http://www.openssl.org/news/changelog.html
http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/ssleay/stack.html

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