Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 201002031707.o13H7A115232@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Recent vendor SSL renegotiation patches break PostgreSQL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Chris Campbell <chris_campbell@mac.com> writes:
> > Is there a way to detect when the SSL library has renegotiation disabled?
> 
> Probably not.  The current set of emergency security patches would
> certainly not have exposed any new API that would help us tell this :-(
> 
> If said patches were done properly they'd have also turned an
> application-level renegotiation request into a no-op, instead of
> breaking apps by making it fail --- but apparently they were not done
> properly.

Yea, and also keep in mind any SSL library checks need to be done at
run-time (because I believe openssl is usually linked as a shared
object), which even further limits our options.

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