Thank you so much, it works for me too!  I am very impressed that bugs
are still being fixed for the powerpc version...

> On 7 Jul 2020, at 16:13, Rod Rivers <1876...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> 
> @Joe, I’m glad to hear that it works!  FYI, Ubuntu rolls out updates slowly 
> starting with 10% of users, increasing 10% every 6 hours if there are no 
> problems.  This may explain why it took some time before you saw the update.  
> Everyone should have been able to apply the updates on Sunday.  Details are 
> here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Phasing
> 
> As for other distro’s I think it is time someone else takes over.  At
> this point is should be more of an administrative process since the
> problem has been pinpointed and patches were made for one distro.  You
> will probably have to file a bug report, point back to this bug and
> follow their procedures.  Worst case the patches may have to be updated
> slightly to account for different line numbers.
> 
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> 
> Title:
>  Evolution reports "Error performing TLS handshake: Internal error in
>  memory allocation."
> 
> Status in Gnutls:
>  Unknown
> Status in claws-mail package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in evolution package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
> Status in gnutls28 package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
> Status in gnutls28 source package in Xenial:
>  Fix Released
> Status in gnutls28 source package in Bionic:
>  Fix Released
> Status in claws-mail source package in Focal:
>  Invalid
> Status in evolution source package in Focal:
>  Invalid
> Status in gnutls28 source package in Focal:
>  Fix Released
> Status in claws-mail source package in Groovy:
>  Invalid
> Status in evolution source package in Groovy:
>  Invalid
> Status in gnutls28 source package in Groovy:
>  Fix Released
> Status in gnutls28 package in CentOS:
>  Unknown
> 
> Bug description:
>  [Impact]
> 
>  Evolution and Claws email clients stopped connecting to Yahoo, AOL,
>  Verizon, AT&T, Bell South, etc email servers which are run by the same
>  group. Users are unable to get to their email.
> 
>  The underlying problem is that GnuTLS does not support zero length
>  session tickets.  The fix works by checking that that ticket_len > 0
>  prior to calling gnutls_realloc_fast().
> 
>  Nominating for SRU, fulfills: "Updates that need to be applied to
>  Ubuntu packages to adjust to changes in the environment, server
>  protocols, web services, and similar, i. e. where the current version
>  just ceases to work."
> 
> 
>  [testcase]
> 
>  GnuTLS 3.6:
>  $ gnutls-cli --priority=NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3 pop.verizon.net:995
>  [...]
>  - Status: The certificate is trusted.
>  *** Fatal error: Internal error in memory allocation.
> 
>  the error should be fixed with the update
> 
>  GnuTLS 3.5:
>  $ gnutls-cli pop.verizon.net:995
> 
>  GnuTLS 3.4:
>  $ gnutls-cli -p 995 pop.verizon.net
> 
> 
>  [regression potential]
> 
>  The fix works by checking that that ticket_len > 0 prior to calling
>  gnutls_realloc_fast().  This creates two separate execution paths:
> 
>  1) If the session ticket length > 0, which is the primary use case,
>  the original code block will be executed.
> 
>  2) If the session ticket len is 0, then the original code block will
>  be skipped.
> 
>  Testing will need to include connections to servers that return
>  session ticket length > 0 as well as ones that return session ticket
>  length of 0.  Wireshark can be used to look at the NewSessionTicket
>  handshake message to confirm the session ticket length.
> 
> 
>  [Other Info]
> 
>  The GnuTLS project's merge request 1260 fixes this bug.  It was reviewed and 
> approved by Daiki Ueno:
>  https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1260
> 
>  According to the GnuTLS project: "We utilize two continuous integration 
> systems, the gitlab-ci and travis.  Gitlab-CI is used to test most of the 
> Linux systems (see .gitlab-ci.yml), and is split in two phases, build image 
> creation and compilation/test. The build image creation is done at the 
> gnutls/build-images subproject and uploads the image at the gitlab.com 
> container registry. The compilation/test phase is on every commit to gnutls 
> project."
>  Here are the results of the gitlab-ci pipeline showing all 19 tests passed 
> for merge request 1260:
>  https://gitlab.com/rrivers2/gnutls/-/pipelines/149155018
> 
>  Page 8, section 3.3 of RFC5077 describes the NewSessionTicket handshake 
> message and indicates that a zero length session ticket is a legitimate value:
>  https://tools.ietf.org/pdf/rfc5077.pdf
> 
>  --------------------------
> 
>  When GnuTLS connects to servers that return zero length session
>  tickets using older TLS versions it returns the error code
>  GNUTLS_E_MEMORY_ERROR and the connection is closed.  This prevents
>  Evolution and Claws email clients from connecting to Yahoo, AOL,
>  Verizon, AT&T, Bell South, etc email servers.  Evolution displays the
>  message "Error performing TLS handshake: Internal error in memory
>  allocation"
> 
> 
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
>  Package: libgnutls30 3.5.18-1ubuntu1.3
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-51.44~18.04.2-generic 5.3.18
>  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-51-generic x86_64
>  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.14
>  Architecture: amd64
>  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
>  Date: Fri May 1 07:03:51 2020
>  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-12-12 (870 days ago)
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 
> (20170801)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   PATH=(custom, no username)
>   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: gnutls28
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-12-28 (489 days ago)
> 
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