[Dovecot] Dovecot broken with newer OpenSSL

Brad brad at comstyle.com
Tue Jul 28 03:02:03 EEST 2009


On Monday 20 July 2009 15:15:29 Michael wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 18.04.2009 22:31, schrieb Timo Sirainen:
> > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 22:26 +0200, Christian Rueger wrote:
> >> dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth attempts): rip=Y.Y.Y.Y,
> >> lip=X.X.X.X, TLS handshaking: SSL_accept() failed: error:0307F041:bignum
> >> routines:BNRAND:malloc failure
> >
> > Oh. malloc() failed? See if increasing login_process_size helps (or set
> > it to 0 to disable the limit).
>
> just updated to the lastest sparc64 OpenBSD snapshot and am now getting
> those messages too:
>
> Jul 20 20:34:37 warden dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth
> attempts): rip=172.16.94.70, lip=80.237.235.10, TLS handshaking: SS
> L_accept() failed: error:03078041:bignum
> routines:BN_EXPAND_INTERNAL:malloc failure
> Jul 20 20:34:38 warden dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth
> attempts): rip=80.237.136.4, lip=80.237.235.10, TLS handshaking: SS
> L_accept() failed: error:03078041:bignum
> routines:BN_EXPAND_INTERNAL:malloc failure
>
>
> However, deleting the ssl-parameters.dat file and restarting dovecot
> fixed the issue.
>
>
> Michael

Timo,

Any idea why deleting the ssl-parameters.dat file helps? Should users have
to delete this file when upgrading between OpenSSL versions?

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