Package: libcurl3 Version: 7.13.1-2 Severity: important Tags: patch When libcurl3 is compiled on Debian "woody", it hangs on all SSL connections. Here's a command to reproduce the problem:
curl https://nexus.passport.com/ The cause seems to be a bug introduced on February by Dan Fandrich: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2005-03/0084.html I applied the patch he suggested and solved the problem: diff -u -r1.129 ssluse.c --- lib/ssluse.c 10 Feb 2005 07:45:08 -0000 1.129 +++ lib/ssluse.c 4 Mar 2005 19:13:50 -0000 @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ /* let the option override the define */ nread += RAND_load_file((data->set.ssl.random_file? data->set.ssl.random_file:RANDOM_FILE), - -1); /* -1 to read the entire file */ + 16384); if(seed_enough(nread)) return nread; } @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ RAND_file_name(buf, BUFSIZE); if(buf[0]) { /* we got a file name to try */ - nread += RAND_load_file(buf, -1); + nread += RAND_load_file(buf, 16384); if(seed_enough(nread)) return nread; } -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages libcurl3 depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libidn11 0.5.13-1.0 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-2 SSL shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
