** Description changed:

- We're experiencing deadlocks in Ubuntu 12.04 at our customers.  After
- some investigation, a known bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1c (and other versions)
- is causing this.  The bug itself was known since one day after this
- release (11th of May this year).
+ [SRU request]
+ 
+ [Impact]
+ A deadlock exists in the public key decoding code of openssl in Precise and 
Quantal. Users of openssl is environments where a large number of keys are 
being processed may hit it, causing the application to hang. This has been 
fixed in the development release by backporting a trivial patch from upstream.
+ 
+ [Test Case]
+ There is currently no known reliable way of reproducing the deadlock.
+ The openssl test suite passes with the patch, and the QRT scripts have been 
run successfully.
+ 
+ [Regression Potential]
+ The patch is trivial, and shouldn't cause any regressions. It has been used 
in a couple of upstream releases so far. If the patch does introduce a 
regression, it would affect public key decoding and would be apparent.
+ 
+ 
+ Original report:
+ We're experiencing deadlocks in Ubuntu 12.04 at our customers.  After some 
investigation, a known bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1c (and other versions) is causing 
this.  The bug itself was known since one day after this release (11th of May 
this year).
  
  OpenSSL bug report:
  http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2813&user=guest&pass=guest
  
  Commit that fixes the issue in OpenSSL 1.0.1:
  http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=22570
  
  For now, we're distributing a modified version of the OpenSSL packages
  for Ubuntu, but of course we're not the only ones with this bug.

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  Deadlock when reading a public key

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