Re: Problems with dovecot 2.2.13 and monit

2014-08-20 Thread Teemu Huovila
On 08/17/2014 11:56 PM, Marius wrote:
 Teemu Huovila teemu.huovila at dovecot.fi writes:
 

 On 06/16/2014 03:35 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: = the problem is caused by 
 dovecot 2.2.13 bug ... its
 behaviour is
 inconsistent (LOGOUT in non-authenticated state works per RFC
 requirement if no SSL is used and doesn't conform to RFC if SSL is
 used). It is possible that the problem is related to their DoS-attack
 modification, which has most probably unexpected side-effect.
 This was fixed in commits
 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/09d3c9c6f0ad
 and
 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/7129fe8bc260

 so it will work better in the next release.

 br,
 Teemu Huovila


 
 Hello, 
 
 I am having the same problem with dovecot 2.0.9 on CentOS
 
 I manually tested over ssl (imap, 993) and if the connection is 
 authenticated i get the bye reply after I issue logout and connection ends 
 gracefully.
 
 If I fail authentication on purpose and issue logout afterwards, then the 
 connection gets terminated abruptly.
 
 Any way to fix this?
The fixes in question are not applied to the 2.0 tree. Furthermore you are not 
even running the latest release from the 2.0
series, so the fixes for Dovecot might be out of the question, unless you make 
similar fixes to the version you are running.

One way forward might be to alter the way monit does the monitoring. I got a 
success on the ssl port, when using the following
monit configuration snippet (tested with dovecot 2.2 hg tip and monit github 
tip. Obviously you have to change localhost and
the login credentials to whatever matches your config. It also requires plain 
auth. On the plus side, you get to see if your
authentication backend is up and running.

if failed host localhost port 993 type tcpssl sslauto and
expect  ^\* OK.* Dovecot ready.
send a login test pass \r\n
expect ^a OK.* Logged in
send a logout\r\n
expect ^\* BYE Logging out\r\na OK Logout completed.
then alert

br,
Teemu


Re: Problems with dovecot 2.2.13 and monit

2014-08-19 Thread Marius
Teemu Huovila teemu.huovila at dovecot.fi writes:

 
 On 06/16/2014 03:35 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: = the problem is caused by 
dovecot 2.2.13 bug ... its
 behaviour is
  inconsistent (LOGOUT in non-authenticated state works per RFC
  requirement if no SSL is used and doesn't conform to RFC if SSL is
  used). It is possible that the problem is related to their DoS-attack
  modification, which has most probably unexpected side-effect.
 This was fixed in commits
 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/09d3c9c6f0ad
 and
 http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/7129fe8bc260
 
 so it will work better in the next release.
 
 br,
 Teemu Huovila
 
 

Hello, 

I am having the same problem with dovecot 2.0.9 on CentOS

I manually tested over ssl (imap, 993) and if the connection is 
authenticated i get the bye reply after I issue logout and connection ends 
gracefully.

If I fail authentication on purpose and issue logout afterwards, then the 
connection gets terminated abruptly.

Any way to fix this?


Thank you.


Problems with dovecot 2.2.13 and monit

2014-06-16 Thread Hanno Böck
Hello,

When I upgraded my servers to dovecot 2.2.13 the monitoring tool monit
started to send out warnings that it couldn't reach my imap/pop3
servers through ssl any more.
The same problem didn't happen on non-ssl-connections.

According to people on the monit list this is likely a dovecot issue:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monit-general/2014-06/msg00031.html
Let me quote:
 the root cause of the error is, that dovecot 2.2.13 closes the
 connection if SSL is used in response to LOGOUT command instead of
 sending usual response. When no SSL is enabled, dovecot responses to
 LOGOUT command normally.
[...]
 According to RFC 3501 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501), LOGOUT is
 any-state command, where the server MUST send response before closing
 the connection: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-3.4
 
 = the problem is caused by dovecot 2.2.13 bug ... its behaviour is
 inconsistent (LOGOUT in non-authenticated state works per RFC
 requirement if no SSL is used and doesn't conform to RFC if SSL is
 used). It is possible that the problem is related to their DoS-attack
 modification, which has most probably unexpected side-effect.


Maybe this is related to the DDoS-protection measures that have been
added in dovecot 2.2.13.

Would apprechiate if someone could have a look.


cu,
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Re: Problems with dovecot 2.2.13 and monit

2014-06-16 Thread Teemu Huovila
On 06/16/2014 03:35 PM, Hanno Böck wrote: = the problem is caused by dovecot 
2.2.13 bug ... its behaviour is
 inconsistent (LOGOUT in non-authenticated state works per RFC
 requirement if no SSL is used and doesn't conform to RFC if SSL is
 used). It is possible that the problem is related to their DoS-attack
 modification, which has most probably unexpected side-effect.
This was fixed in commits
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/09d3c9c6f0ad
and
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/7129fe8bc260

so it will work better in the next release.

br,
Teemu Huovila