On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Jan Pechanec wrote:
sorry, forgot to include a link to the OpenSolaris bugster:
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6441083
with an explanation of a person who reported the problem.
J.
>
> hi,
>
> there are some places where functions allocating memory are not
>checked against NULL, or are checked too late (LHASH code). We run some
>tests with libumem(3lib) and "mtbf=5000" (mean time between failure) in
>UMEM_DEBUG, simulating occasional memory shortages and that was causing
>OpenSSL to crash.
>
> the changes have been used here at Sun internally for 2 years
>against 0.9.8a. Attached is a patch generated against 0.9.8l. "make
>test" passes on the changed code after rebuilding it.
>
> thanks, Jan.
>
>
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Jan Pechanec
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