[Dovecot] [bug] ssl-params hangs when FIPS is enabled

Michal Hlavinka mhlavink at redhat.com
Tue Nov 5 13:52:23 EET 2013


On 11/02/2013 02:31 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 1.10.2013, at 21.14, Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> we found a bug in ssl-params. It calls openssl DH generator for 512 and 1024 bits, but in FIPS mode, openssl won't generate anything for less than 1024, so it fails with:
>> error:0506A06E:Diffie-Hellman routines:DH_BUILTIN_GENPARAMS:key size too small
>>
>> but when DH generator fails, ssl-params hangs forever in io_loop_run:
>
> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/c472e0454ee3 should fix this.

tested (whole 2.2.7) and it works fine
Thanks


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