On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:15:57PM +0000, andreas wrote:
> Hi,
> 

Hi,


> Ok, so I compiled it all on my laptop. I'm running libressl-2.2.3 and
> opensmtpd-5.7.1p1
> 
> What happens is RAND_bytes in rand_lib.c in libressl, line 90, calls
> arc4random_buf at line 213 in arc4random.c (in opensmtpd), which calls
> _rs_random_buf at line 141, which calls _rs_stir_if_needed at line 108,
> which calls _rs_stir, line 81, which calls back to RAND_bytes, and there we
> have an infinite loop...
> 
> Obviously I'm running the wrong libressl version for the wrong opensmtpd
> version, or possibly the other way around, but can anyone tell me what I
> should be running instead, or if I have done a terrible mistake somewhere
> else?
> 
> Thank you!
> 

This is an issue indeed and not you didn't do a terrible mistake, this
is a chicken-egg problem that needs to be solved somehow.

We'll discuss this shortly and think of a solution.

It was reported by someone else on bugs@ too.


-- 
Gilles Chehade

https://www.poolp.org                                          @poolpOrg

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